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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Okay, so I am grading papers. Which I absolutely cannot fucking stand. Hate it.
Anyway, you know what puts me in a REALLY good mood? A student, a graduate student, getting her master's degree, citing the History Channel as a citation in a paper. Not a published article. Not a book. And *not* related directly to our field.
So the ABQ job, which made an initial offer of around 20% less than the husband was making at his previous job, came back with another offer. A whole $2,000 more. So I guess we're not going to ABQ.
the US government apology to Native peoples was read aloud today
Liese! Was it really? That's fabulous.
A student, a graduate student, getting her master's degree, citing the History Channel as a citation in a paper
Pfffft. Amazing.
A whole $2,000 more
Well, that's ridiculous.
Yeah, at this point even if they offer a match you should turn it down. Anytime a place ends up hiring for more than they intended to pay their expectations become unreasonably high and usually you start out with enemies. So yeah ABQ is out even if they come up with yet another offer.
I don't think there will be another offer. I can't even believe it was worth anyone's time to raise it by $2,000, including theirs.
Dang Dana. I'm sorry. I hope the other places in the hopper work out.
That's, like, a dollar an hour. Weird. Hope something better comes along soon, Dana, and in a good location.
God, Dana, that's absurd. I'm sorry.
Liese! Was it really? That's fabulous.
We did it, Suela, since the government wouldn't. Mark Charles, a Navajo activist, organized the event. Native folks read the appropriations bill it was buried in, and then the apology was read in English, Ojibwe, and Navajo. (My buddy read the Navajo, and he got some really nice compliments from Elmer Yazzie, the artist who did part of the banner for the event.)
It went well. There were probably about a hundred people there. No major news and no politicians or officials. Native Net News was there. A few things were said that I squirmed at, but on the whole, it was a really good event, done really well. It was streamed, and they're going to edit the video and post. I'll be in all the footage, 'cause it was so windy I ended up holding the artwork up the entire time. So I didn't get video or photos myself.
Y'all did a good thing, Liese.