Congrats on the offer, SailAway. Whether or not you take it, it's nice to get an offer.

Congratulations on the offer, Sail!

Tons of job~ma, Hil.

Good news for the day is that the computer is still under warranty. So it's not going to cost me anything to fix or replace it.

Continuing job~ma, Hil.

Glad to hear the computer was still under warranty, sj. Replacing my old one is on my list of things to do this year. I'm already getting little warnings to replace my battery. As expensive as those things can be, I'd almost rather replace the entire computer.

Kashi:

Also, thanks, everyone for your congratulations! I'm tending more toward accepting the position every hour. The excitement of something new is starting to filter in.

Smonster and Gar, thought of y'all cause I replaced my bedside lamp with an LED yesterday.

Thanks for the job~ma. I'm kind of stressing out about not having a job yet. One of my friends has pretty similar credentials to mine, and she's been looking for jobs outside academia, and she hasn't found anything, either.

Hil, just a reminder, in academia if you haven't heard "no" yet then it means you're still on a short list somewhere. I didn't get an offer until July, and I've been here for 15 years now.

Thanks. The last few times I was in this situation (two interviews, then no contact), it was because they'd made an offer to someone else, and were waiting to get an official yes from that person before telling me no. But I'll keep that in mind -- they haven't told me no.

Laura, my cousin went through some similar stuff to what you're describing your son going through. His parents and the rest of the family worried a lot, but he managed to get his life back together -- he went to a school where he learned about computer security, and now he's got a job with one of those companies that get hired to try to break into a computer system, so that they can find where the vulnerabilities are and fix them. The school where he went was organized so that you just took one class at a time, which worked out better for him, since he'd get disorganized trying to keep up with several classes at once.

Thanks, Hil. He still claims that he wants to go to school in the fall after going north with me for the summer. He doesn't seem to see any disconnect with these objectives and his current life choices. He's smart. He'll find his way.