I keep thinking I should keep MORE in my ING account, but...I've never taken any money OUT of it, and I'm not actually sure how. I can't imagine I would need my entire savings-account-that's-linked-to-checking at once, but I'm easily panicked when it comes to money and the possibility of not having it.
Two more helpdesk calls today. One to the whole "OK, each step has new issues" people.
Guy: "Oh, that's easy, we deal with this issue a lot--go to blahblah.com, and click here, and download that. Then it should totally work!"
Me: "Um, yeahhhhh....can I call you back when it doesn't work? Cause so far, none of this has"
Guy: "Sure, but it should work"
ten minutes later...
Me: "It didn't work"
Guy: "Uh, that's weird...send me a screen shot?"
Me: [blah blah email address etc]
Guy: "Oh. Um...I have to forward this call on to someone else. They'll call you Monday, since it's already 3pm here"
Me: "Someday, someday I will have access to everything I need, right?"
Guy: "It took six weeks for me, and I'm here in the office and in IT"
Me: [thunk]
It seems to take way too much effort to just get them to pay their bills.
ND - I would be happy to call from the legal department of Diablo Sound and tell them that their bill is in arrears.
it used to work really well with a big company that makes tools.
yay MM!!
Susan - here are some of the things I'd think about -- Do I want to be in cities - will I need a car? What kinds of places do I wnat to stay? ( 3 star 4 star 2star? ) Do you want to stick to a food budget? or any budget? once the family goes home are you going to need to stay in a safer place? will you need a babysitter? If you couldn't do your dream of 6 weeks - what # sounds good? I think I'd start somewhere in the neighborhood of 2000.00 a week. As you get closer to the time you can adjust.
I forgot ....pppbbbtthhh to the big mouse. Pay your bills!
I've got most of my savings in a citibank e-savings account, which was getting a pretty good interest rate for a while, but that's dropped lately. It's still giving me around $13 a month on about $6,400, though, so that's something. (I am way too lazy right now to calculate what that actual rate would be.)
I just went to a seminar on finding math academic jobs. It was terrifying.
from the smacking sounds I think the boys are sparring in their room. I wonder if it would be weird if I went and stood in the doorway.
I wonder if it would be weird if I went and stood in the doorway.
um... have they paid rent yet? No? Ok then. You get to do what you want.
yes, the rent is paid! And the sparring is over anyway.
I'm annoyed because now when I type "bu" in my address bar it comes up "bulletins dot myspace dot com". I have to type buf to get here and I keep forgetting and going to myspace (ick) by mistake.
Judging my this job search seminar I went to today, I haven't published anywhere near enough. I've got a decent amount of teaching experience, actually I've got teaching experience beyond what most grad students are expected to have, but I'm behind on research stuff. Need to get something published, and soon. Which is not being helped by the fact that, each time I think that I have something workable, my advisor finds some other huge amount of work that'll add several months to writing it that he thinks would be a "really good addition."
I think that this weekend, I'm just going to put together what I have of this current paper that I know is ready to go and just explain to him that I need to get my name out there.
