I'm sitting here in one of the exhibition halls of the San Diego conference center attending this year's Neuroscience conference (with only 30,000 other neuroscientists . In a back-up plan, it seems I have now secured an opportunity to work at UCLA, just in case my last grant doesn't go through either. In this case (which I hope doesn't arise!), I'd be working with Bernard Balleine, Alcino Silva and Michael Fanselow (as well as maybe David Glanzman), who all have their labs there. So even in the worst case, I get to work in a great place with arguably the best people in the field.
Not a bad back-up at all...