Oh dear, {{{P-C}}}. I skipped a bunch & so missed your current mama madness. I think you've made great progress in your relationship with her. Don't give up!

Finished two more pages of my dissertation, and got rejected from two more jobs. Fairly normal math day, I guess.

Sorry about the rejections but yay for dissertation progress, Hil.

I have a werewolf in a videogame named after you. She's a specialist in defending hills.

Hil, this job-hunting process is such slow torture, isn't it? Sorry you have to through it.

I've had eight interviews. Of these, I know that two of them have gone on to the next round of interviews and didn't ask me for a second interview, but didn't send me a rejection, either. I know nothing about any of the others. And then there are a whole bunch of jobs that I applied for that, as far as I know, haven't interviewed anybody, so I have no idea what's going on with those.

Also, decided not to apply to a university in Kentucky because the closest synagogue that has weekly services is 50 miles away. (There's a synagogue in the same city as the university, but it only holds services once a month, and they're in a church.)

Hil, the suckitudinous part of having filled out 125+ job applications, is that even if you get a dozen job offers, you still get over a hundred rejections. There is much Bleh! about that.

P-C, I'm astounded that you have yet to turn into a raging alcoholic. That makes me want to polish of a few fifths of various poisons, and she's not my mother.

smonster, your project has all my votes.

Ugh, Hil. I'm sorry the job search and dissertation are so trying.

P-C, you've grown! I'm impressed with how you're handling your mother these days. Don't give up.

I've skipped about 9850 posts. It was really hard to do (I'm a completist), but why not take the risk? My apologies that I missed important stuff.

Thank you for the birthday happies, everyone! Between here and FB, I'm definitely feeling the love. It's a good day - we didn't get snow!

Hil, the suckitudinous part of having filled out 125+ job applications, is that even if you get a dozen job offers, you still get over a hundred rejections. There is much Bleh! about that.

Very much yes. And at the wiki rumor site, there are about ten people who are on the short lists for about thirty jobs. I'm kind of betting on being on someone's second short list -- if the wiki is even vaguely accurate, about 2/3 of those jobs won't be able to hire anybody from their initial short list, so I'm hoping I'm in the B piles for at least some of them.

P-C, I'm astounded that you have yet to turn into a raging alcoholic.

You know, so am I.

P-C, you've grown! I'm impressed with how you're handling your mother these days.

Thanks! I look at what I'm doing now and I mostly just wonder why the fuck I didn't do this years ago.