I am so sick of this job search process. Of the eight schools that interviewed me, I know that two have hired someone else. I haven't heard anything from the rest. There are a ton of schools where I applied and the application deadline was back in November or December and, as far as I know, they have not interviewed anybody. What are they waiting for?

Maybe economics, Hil? Also, speaking from my two experiences on uni hiring committees -- they tend to operate at a GLACIAL pace.

I was about to say what Erin just said. Lots of schools have positions that need to be filled, but are also in the middle of hiring freezes, so it's a stalemate.

Thanks. I'm just getting frustrated. I get antsy when I don't have plans. Even simple things like whether or not to get a new pair of snow boots -- I'll need them if I get one of the jobs in Chicago or New York, but not if I get one of the jobs in Atlanta or Arizona, so I can't decide whether to make do with the pair I have for the rest of this winter or buy new ones, since new ones would be a waste of money if I'm moving to somewhere without much snow for the next several years. When I'm budgeting my money for this year, I don't know how much I should be thinking about spending on an apartment next year. I don't know if I need to be looking at non-academia jobs.

I tend to plan things ridiculously far in advance, and having this big empty space in my plans is driving me nuts.

I had dinner with my youngest niece last night, and she was expressing similar feelings. She wants out of her current job really bad, and wants to move to a different state just so she won't have lived in the same place her whole life, and she's getting no responses to her shotgunning of resumes. I don't even know what to say to her. It sucks.

Much peace~ma to your surrogate mom, bonny fides.

I'm hungry and I don't know what to eat. I already had dinner. I don't have much snack-type food here -- all I've got is an imitation mallomar, and I wanted to save that for later. I've got a bit of leftover Indian food in the fridge, so maybe I'll have that, though I was planning on having it for lunch tomorrow. But I skipped lunch today, so maybe I just need another meal.

You got my votes, smonster. Somehow I could do three of them. I hope I didn't cheat.

I think that every email address gets three votes.

Tonight I made that creamy broccoli thingy I posted at the end of last week, and had it over rotini. I also crumbled some bacon over my portion.

It was good, but I think next time I'm going to use more garlic and add some good parmesan or romano (not from a can) to the heavy cream part of the recipe.

And I believe that I've now consumed my entire week's worth of vegetables AND fiber. I will be eating Laffy Taffy for the rest of the week.

(Okay, not really, but DAMN, that is a LOT of broccoli in one dish!)