(small pass given to the Quebecois accent, for vaguely nostalgic feels)

And as the name of a moon, right?

NASA is also doing a live webcast for those of us who are dubious about building our own viewing devices: [link]

Family-health ~ma, Cashmere!

My GPS cracks me up with Tchoupotoulas.

Honestly, though, the pinhole viewer instructions here is super easy and works great.

I've got an app that will let me mark the measurement as it enters, so we can do solar system measurements like in the old days...except you know, with gps and mobile phones.

The SO pointed out that although last time the transit happened, there would have been lots of pictures taken, but the time before, photography would have been pretty new! Kinda blowing my mind. Who knows what the imaging will be like in another century.

So, I had a job interview this morning, and it went well! One thing I am kind of confused about: it's a faculty position, and as such governed by the AAUP contract, and it's a 180-day position. I have never worked any place where librarians were in this situation and I'm not sure what it means. Anybody know? A) is the salary quoted in the job ad pro-rated and reduced based on 180-day only, or is the salary in the job ad for the 180 days? B) Okay, they're moving to 3 15-week semesters a year, which is 225 days. How am I supposed to work only 180 days and actually get the job done? As a librarian I am used to being at work all the time, whether school is in session or not. Do they expect me to just work unpaid extra days for coverage? The way they explained it, you just "work it out" but that seems like a lot of days discrepancy to work out.

I am not sure about the days, but we have faculty on "9 month" positions that teach year round, supposedly only work the equivalent of nine months throughout the year. In practice it seems a bit like they work full time 12 months a year, and get paid less.

Husband had two calls this morning with potential jobs, and both were too low-level, which you couldn't tell from the posting.

I don't want to live in the ass-end of Washington any more! Wah.

And as the name of a moon, right?

RELUCTANTLY.

For some (pretty vain) reason I was pissed the last time I saw an entry on Ita Moon, and they said it was probably a shoutout. Fuck you! That's my moon!

t /unbalanced fangirl

Kat, the bolus isn't such a big deal for me anymore with the port (in the past they have pumped a liter of saline in to my *fingertip* which is just miserable all round), but if they dilute my meds in a litre of saline and then draw out the administration over an hour, all I end up is sleepy. It in no way helps my pain.

It makes me nervous to even ask about the method of administration, though. Some doctors and nurses feel that drawing out the process is their responsibility, so I try and refer them back to the time I got admitted so they could administer push while I was hooked up to All The Monitors, and that doctor gave me the thumbs up, as well as my migraine guy requesting it. Fingers crossed. This past visit they came up to me with the bag, and I dared ask that they give me the drugs push, and *then* hook up the fluids. And it worked...

It's pretty messed up, but I'm going to miss some of these people. It's hard not to--the nice ones are *really* nice, and thank me for being a nice diversion during the late shift, since I'm (usually) not crying or screaming or anything, and deliberately try to be as easy going as possible (except for when it comes to the graham crackers. I definitely get kinda nutso about those).

Well, if the salary posted in the ad is for 180-day and not reduced by 1/4, I would be happy working more than 180 days for that amount of money (it's good). If they reduce it by 1/4, I'd probably resent working more than 180 days.

The kids knew this was a job interview, and they're all, "We don't want you to get a job." Argh.