Work Uncertainty

My boy is growing like a weed and I find myself enjoying it way more than I am mourning him leaving his babyhood behind.  He has a few more words, but he's still behind in that area.  As of today he can now climb up and on to the couch with a pillow under his feet.  I bet that by the end of next week he'll do it sans pillow.  And within a week he'll probably fall on his head, but c'est la vie, I suppose.  He is so excited when he gets on the couch by himself he shakes and laughs and laughs.  He is a super good boy and I love him so much.  He is just getting more and more charming and just a wonderful person to be around.  I cannot wait for Halloween when I can put him in his dino costume. 

My husband has turned thirty in the past few days and today we're celebrating with friends.  There are surprise components and I cannot believe that I'm able to keep it a secret.  I must be getting older too.  :)

Work wise everything seems simultaneously exciting and nerve wracking at the same time.  My employer is required to give me 8 weeks notice and my contract is up in almost 8 weeks.  I'm getting some impressions that I may be staying and maybe it's longer than I thought...or maybe I'm done at the end of December.  Everything is so tentative.  And then I might have an opportunity to work elsewhere, an exciting dream position, but it could fall through too.  So I could have one, two, or zero options in the next two weeks.  I'm trying to be zen and just work hard for both in hopes that the right option is still there at the end.  Or, at least any option at all.

Sorry, I just don't feel like I should write too much about this on a public forum.  Unfortunately, it's pretty much the only thing on my mind and likely will be for the next week and a half, so I don't have much more to say.  I'm pitching to speak at a local library conference with my supervisor and I hope that works out.  I want to have greater ties to the library community, more opportunities to present as that gives me more incentive to do interesting things, and (lets be honest) more lines on my resume. 

I hope I have some definitive facts to report next time and then I can focus more on the nitty gritty and pedagogical aspects to librarianship instead of neurotic paranoia about employment.  :)