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.

Having worked as staff (student publications adviser) at a university, I will say there's a definite sense of second-class citizen that never goes away, even if you're in a nonacademic department. Also, where I worked, you had much worse parking.

ION, it's snooooowing.

I've been in the faculty, staff and the hybrid position as a librarian. (Now, I am considered administration, which is basically high-ranking staff, and I'm fine with that - I don't need to go through tenure/peer review or publish or perish at this point in my career, thankyouverymuch.) They all have pros/cons, but it is very much university-dependent.

o-a, how much wiggle room they will have will depend not only on the department, but also on the union contract, etc. You have the most power while you are negotiating. After you take the job, you may have to stay in lockstep (advancement, review, pay, other working conditions) with your colleagues.

Hil, your advisor is insane. We should have a count down clock to when you'll never have to deal with him again.

Hil, sorry about the pain. FYI, the Brookville in Cleveland Park delivers - don't know if they'd come to your neighborhood, but they usually have nice produce. They're small, so the selection isn't as good as some places, but I've seen the manager going through the store on the phone with someone picking up stuff and putting it in a cart.