next stop: washinton DC

drumroll.

we have our next step: washington dc. ok, kind of. we'll really be in bethesda, MD. since i like pointing out to bloodninja that long island doesn't count as ny, i'm striving to be precise.

mrs. wintermute accepted a post doctoral research fellowship at NIMH. it's an awesome deal, and we are both super-excited. you might even say that we are psyched.

mrs w. wrote it up best in her blog here--no need for me to repeat what she blogged so eloquently.

we have a lot of friends there, most notably the chief (college room mate, i was his best man and he was a groomsmen in my wedding) and his wife (one of my best friends from freshman year of college). some other good college friends live there,too.

and most importantly, we will be much much closer to our family. mrs. w's brother and his lady live a couple hours away in VA, and all of my mom's family (grandmother, two aunts, an uncle, cousin, and two nieces) live nearby in baltimore. my grandmother couldn't believe it when i told her we were moving there. my dad's family is nearby, too. shan de la shan is moving to dc to work at the justice department. and i have five first cousins in manhattan, a 3 hour train ride away.

we're actually going to become property owners, too. the house hunt begins.