I walked home from dinner with my seminar students, and behind me two 19-20 year olds were discussing Homestuck, Korra and Avatar, horrible fandoms that turn you off the show, ship wars, and their final feelings about Snape in Harry Potter. I feel approximately one million years old.

Good luck, Juliebird!

flea, at least you knew what they were talking about?

I could even get a two-bedroom rental with a yard and heat included for only $650! I'd have to live in Newark with a roommate for that here in Jersey. OMG, I need this job.

Of course, my resume was on my old laptop, and not on my zip drive like I'd thought, so I'm busting that out and will email it tomorrow.

It's right on the ocean, half the distance to my parents that I'm at now, and I bet you my mother would leave my father for the chance to live in Maine, and I'd have ALL THE FREE HOME COOKED MEALS! Or at least she'd visit a lot.

Maine is lovely!

I have two jobs to apply for, and I'm not sure I'm really qualified for either of them, but I'm going to apply anyway. I hate this part.

Good luck, Julie!

I'm down to one robin. Given it is the younger (guessing, the older had less fluff than this one still has on the head) and I've put in back up in the nest twice after watching is clumsily flutterthump to the ground, I expect the older sibling is starting to fly and is the source of the identical cheeping from the low tree across from me. Of course, something more dire could be true, but the parents are still around. And holy god, one was MAD at me when I was putting the one back into the nest. She nearly whacked me in the face.

Also, baby robin being fierce? ADORKABLE! It's already got robin coloring and got all puffed up and yelly.

I wish them well, nature and all that shit.

Where in Maine, Julie?

Hil, an hour north of Portland, right on the coast.

Scola's Law of IT: Given the clear choice of a simple solution or a complicated solution, people will choose the more complicated solution every single time. When you challenge someone and try to explain that the more complicated solution is not necessary, you will be met with blank stares, and you will be ignored completely.

Rule ID-10-T

One of the reasons that I've seriously begun thinking about ditching the place I work at is that I fear for what we'll become when boss lady leaves. She had her issues and quirks, but she was also on-task. Current ED, for all that he's a beautiful person, has a mission statement in his head that doesn't align with what I've been working with for the past six years, and I'm frightened at what he'll do without the strong personality of boss-lady to keep him in check. With her leaving, it's quickly becoming a place that I don't think I like anymore.

I overheard him today asking a local hort rep from Rutger's Uni if he'd been outside. Great! Then ED said that the Rutger's guy should check out the sculptures and holy fuck, way to dis the grounds and what the Rutger's guy might be mainly interested in. But also, even if it were anyone else, the fucking art isn't what we're about. Way to insult me and boss lady by disregarding everything that we work for with one of our fucking peers.

We had a tornado hit the area last Monday, and he was out on the grounds, but not checking for damage on the trees at an arboretum, but for damage on the artwork. Yes, the only times he is outside is when it has to do with art. He tells people that we are an art exhibit. Yes, thank you, my job is to just patch over the lawn where last year's sculpture was. Uh huh. It's in our mission to compete with Grounds for Sculpture (whose grounds are absolute shite).

For all that I hate the old ED, I never feared her vision for the organization. Now this sweet gentle man is making me want to let go of being a part of the process of making where I work a better place.

Apparently after 20 hours its legit to threaten you with catheterisation.

Fine! You can have it.