argh.

after spending four hours either at the branch or at lunch with the manager in anchorage, I still don't have an offer in place. no financial issues were discussed, despite my asking. I'm expected to call next week and tell them if I'm interested. then they'd tell me what they'll pay me. and in the meantime, I'll have nowhere to go when I'd get here. it's not a good situation.

it also has me 99% sure I WON'T be moving to alaska. I'm not comfortable with how things have transpired. unfortunately, now that they've invested a thousand bucks in sending me up here, they're gonna expect me to stay. and when I decline, they're going to be upset. which means I'll be blackballed and banished to redmond forever.

so you know what that means, kids? we start looking into moving me to canada. a year of hell in redmond waiting for that process, then moving back to the home of poutine, hockey and socialised health care...

meanwhile, I have about 28 hours to kill before my flight home. I'm gonna go look for a moose.