Thanks. I'm trying everything I know to relieve the pain enough that I can get to sleep. I've got Stevie Nicks on my iPod, and I'm reading A Swiftly Tilting Planet, both of which usually help a bit. Can't go any higher on the meds.

day o interviews went well. Was told by boss-of-applied-for-job that I have an impressive resume. Seems like a bunch of nice folk. One red flag for me that I realize has been annoying me the more I think about it. It's a staff position. Staff is a bit of the bottom of the ladder. Viewed on as a servant by some at the school. The faculty get sweet things when they start, set up things. Computer choices type of things. Staff. not so much. I was asking if the production staff have laptops. Nope. Old Dell towers. Um. Dude. tech! gear everywhere. crazy schedules. and you want me tied to a tower? Not even a Mac?

Hil, continued less-pain~ma. Sucks that you can't sleep.

o-a, I remember that split from when I was teaching in the UK equivalent of community colleges. 'Support staff' used to be second class citizens compared to faculty. Totally ridiculous, since they did most of the work, in the English department I'm thinking of in particular.

So no one at Derby Uni has yet found time to help with the fact that I'm being pushed through an illegal admissions procedure because I'm disabled. If this isn't sorted by the end of the week, I'm talking to a lawyer. Whether or not I can afford it.

Get 'em, Seska! It really sucks that they are doing that.

Hil, relief and sleep wishes for you.

omnis, being treated with respect and consideration at a job is worth at least $10 grand a year.

Yeah, I just pulled that number from my behind. It's probably worth a different amount to different people. In fact it's probably not quantifiable at all.

-t, thanks for the info! It does sound like something we`d be happy with. We have a lot of people in and out of the house, dogsitters and such, and it would be helpful to be able to give them temp codes. Instead we have a lot of keys floating around, which is not secure.
 
Hil, hope you got some curative rest. I still haven`t read any of L`engle`s stuff since she died. I was like that with Douglas Adams too, for a while after he died.

{{{{{Hil}}}}} I'm so sorry about how much pain you have been in. I hope you can find some relief.

Hil, hope you found some rest.

I got a bit of rest. I also got an email from my advisor, saying that he can meet with me on Friday, but probably won't have time to read any of the stuff I sent him last week before then, so he'll "try to remember" to email me Thursday night if he hasn't so that I won't need to come into the office for nothing.

He also told me to stop leaving "angry notes" on his door. I have, twice (I think), left a post-it on his office door saying something like, "Can you please let me know when you can meet with me this week?" It was generally when he hadn't responded to an email for over a week, and I figured that having something that he'd see immediately might work better than an email. (And it did -- he responded to both those notes right away.) I was definitely angry when I wrote them, but I was very careful to make sure the notes themselves were polite.

One red flag for me that I realize has been annoying me the more I think about it. It's a staff position. Staff is a bit of the bottom of the ladder. Viewed on as a servant by some at the school. The faculty get sweet things when they start, set up things. Computer choices type of things. Staff. not so much.

O-a, are you willing to teach? If so, ask if they'd be willing to make you a lecturer, which in many places is a staff/faculty hybrid. It may give you a little more to stand on.