<human>: Very long story short, about 2 1/2 months ago I applied for a teaching position (for which there were several openings at this school) with a music school in the area. They called me in for an interview pretty quickly. 

The interview went really well. My potential boss (and the president of the school) showed me the entire building, where the teachers park, eat lunch, etc., and also showed me the entire pay scale and how my potential pay would be structured. He seemed very happy with how I handled and presented myself and had me fill out some additional forms to move ahead with the process.

After a couple weeks, some back and forth communication between he and I while he was on vacation, he told me that they were having a large number of applicants and wanted to give everyone a chance to interview. 

It has been about 2 months since the interview, but he has kept in touch with me letting me know how the progress of completing the interviews, and trying to estimate a final decision date. It was within a week, then to the end of the month, and yesterday he told me they had finished interviews and were shooting for this coming Wednesday or Thursday for decisions.

Should I feel confident that he has been keeping in touch with me throughout this process? Or am I being strung along? My gut feeling says that if he wasn't interested, I'd either have never heard back, or would have gotten a rejection by now. But I wanted to see what you guys think. I need this job so bad!

Many thanks!

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<bot>: interview went really well, employer has been interviewing others, but has kept in touch reassuring me they are nearing a final decision, should I take this as a good sign?