Oh gods, did I not say how worried I am about Fay?? Gah, I'm a bad friend lately. Fay, thinking of you and the Cat Daniel. Please check in when you can.

(((Pix))) I wish I could be there.

I'm sorry about your mother's caregiver's accident, ND.

Ah, ND, that's terrible news. I hope she recovers, and that your family can find someone who works out in the meantime.

IO(frivolous)N, it is sunny here, and I need to go to Target and to the grocery store. I need to get some bday gifts for my stepson. He will be 8 on the 29th, and his mom just informed us that he has decided he is a vegetarian. Summer in the midwest is a good time to explore this choice.

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{{ND}}

I got another job offer. I need to consider this one a lot. It's a job that would look really good on my CV, but it's not so much what I really want to do. And I'd be working directly for somebody who I've never met or even talked to and don't know anything about, which I'd be pretty apprehensive about. Plus, I'd need to figure out the logistics of moving to Vancouver for a year, and then moving somewhere else next summer, and health care would be an enormous hassle -- I'd get health insurance after three months, but everything that I'm reading says that most Canadian doctors have a six-month waiting list for new patients, so by the time I got to actually see a doctor, it would be time for me to move again.

What do you need to consider, Hil? It sounds like a list of negatives, with one positive - it would look good on your CV. IMHO, if you're working in your field, in this economy, anything you do will look good on your CV.

Hil, can you ask the people who gave you the offer if they have any advice or help on the Canadian doctor issue?

I'm IMing with my best friend from Vancouver right now - I've asked her to weigh in on the reality of that. (Also, she's currently living in Niger. Wonder who's living in her house?)

Pretty much every professor who I've told about the Vancouver offer has said "take it." But so far, all the professors that I've talked to have been people who I know have very different ideas about what constitutes a "good" job than I have. This one is all research, no teaching, which people keep telling me is great and fabulous, but I like teaching.

I guess my question would be this. My perception is that research is often considered a lot more prestigious/valuable than teaching at that level. So I'd wonder if doing a pure research position for a year would mean you were in a better position moving on from there having gotten your bones, so to speak. Since it is short term, I would think that being away from teaching wouldn't mean tracking away from that for the long term.

But I have no idea how this plays out in the mathy world, so that could be off base. And of course, it would have to be research you'd enjoy/want to do in the first place.