Bidding update

So I got an e-mail on my return from the South saying that those at 25% equity (us) and 20% equity (equity is based on hardship differential + danger pay %, no danger for us, but we are at the maximum...er...hardship here in Laos) had been placed, and that those positions to which people had been placed have been marked as such in the online bidlist.

We don't know what job we have exactly, but by process of elimination, we can narrow down our bid list by seeing what jobs are now marked as 'unavailable' on the list. So assuming this is all correct, we will be going to one of the following:

KIEV
MOSCOW
WINDHOEK
DAMASCUS
BANGKOK
ATHENS
SYDNEY
HAMILTON
BAKU

I think we're going to Moscow, but having nothing to base that on. Just as likely to be going to Kiev. Less likely to be going to Windhoek or any other non-Russian speaking post left on the list. And hopefully, because Baku (and the Kiev and Moscow Consular positions that I could potentially be going to rather than the Con-Pol rotational positions at the same posts) is much farther down the list, farther than other Russian posts that are still available, we won't be going there either.

But anything is possible. Who knows, maybe we're going to Belize and there is just a mistake in the system.

Tomorrow's my birthday, so we are celebrating by playing poker and submitting my first official annual review (it's due a year after we arrive at post, which was March 4, 2005). Can't believe we've been here a year, and only have a year left.