congratulations, oceanchild

By Todd Stadler · Wednesday, May 1, 2002 12:22am

Is it any wonder I love her so?

Mere weeks after conquering an armada of marauding tenured professors intent on asking detailed chemistry questions, girlfriend Julia has again looked fear in the face and laughed. Heartily.

Her latest challenge - to find a job, and possibly a golden fleece, in Portland, Oregon (where I live, coincidentally) - was given the proverbial smackdown by Julia this past weekend.

While I find myself well into the third month of my job search without much success, Julia took mere days to convince the good folks at St. Mary's to pay her cold, hard cash (no word on the fleece, though) in exchange for teaching kids about chemistry.

And while I'd like to be all cross about her academic and employment superiority, I'm just too happy to have her in the same city as me without having to worry about when the return flight is.

It's odd - I wanted God to answer our many many prayers by giving us just this, but even I didn't expect Julia to get a job up here in a matter of days. Wow.