Just once in my life I'd like to be bored.

Two weeks ago my husband walks in the house after work and informs me he wants to work in Dubai.  "Okay" I respond smiling while I continue cooking supper.  He tells me he's serious and again I respond, "Okay" and keep cooking.  Finally, he's getting adamant, "seriously, I do, I want to work there".  Fine.  I put down my spoon and walk to the computer and do what I always do when he says he wants to move somewhere exotic; I google it, find a web page explaining why its a bad idea and he drops the subject for a month or so until he thinks of a new place to move to.

Well, wouldn't you know it.  I can't find a damn thing saying its a bad idea.  In fact, within seconds I find several fine teaching opportunities that one would be a fool to pass up.  But, like anything that good the chances of it panning out are virtually nil.  Stan begs me to apply to them anyway and to humor him I do - fully expecting to waste hours and hours filling out their stupid on-line forms, only to be met with no emails or no phone calls in return.  HAHA. Jokes on me.  Within hours I'm receiving phone calls from London, emails from Dubai and recruiters calling me on behalf of the Abu Dhabi Education Council.  

Turns out a couple of the contacts wouldn't pan out.  Had to be single for one, already living in the UAE for another.  But the last one resulted in a phone interview.  By this point my stomach is doing things it hasn't done since I left home for the very first time and I'm scared shitless about what this could all mean and how we even make a decision like this.  And then the big moment came, I was successful with the phone interview; now they want me in Toronto to meet with the Abu Dhabi Education Council where they say I'll have at least a 75% chance of getting the job and if I do I have to be in the UAE by the middle-end of August!! Talk about stress!!  

So....tomorrow I fly to Toronto.  The interview's not till friday a.m. but I'm already nervous. However,  if the job doesn't work out at least its a great opportunity to see my family for a bit!!