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.

flea,

so is this an "academic" position where Sophia is right, most faculty have 9 or 10-month contracts.

I have a 10 month contract right now, but I work all the time and never get all of my work done. My salary though is something I can't complain about and I am paid the 10 month salary across 12 months.

For faculty, it is a "benefit" to have a 9- or 10- month contract because we can get grants to pay for "summer salary" up to 3 months a year. Are you able to work extra during the summer (e.g. teach, etc.) to add to your salary?

I'm also on a 9-month contract, which I have paid out over 12 months.

No, I would not be able to teach. I'd actually welcome the time off, if I were able to tweak it to work with my kids' school breaks, for example. But I don't know how realistic that is in the context of adequately supporting the academic mission of the library - to take off 45 days DURING the semesters (this is a community college, so summers are very active.) 180 days is only 36 work weeks a year! I am used to working 49-50 weeks a year. (There are only 2 faculty librarians out of a staff of 10-12, and I think the non-faculty are on 12-month contracts, so actually opening the library would be able to continue, but I would be the only full-time reference librarian able to visit classes, for example.)

flea,

sounds like they want you to work 4 days a week, 15 weeks, 3 terms.

Cashmere,

lot's of 'ma coming your way.

Huh, that might work, actually.

Aww, Cash, family~ma.

Go you on the good interview, flea! Hope it works out to be something good for you, schedule-wise.