It seems like something I should know more about, but I don't.

Thanks everyone! It went well. At 4pm all the stuff I had to be really on for was done, so then I just got to do easy stuff like listen to the HR person give an overview of benefits and have a tour of the sweet preservation lab. I was feeling really good about how I did at that point. The meeting with the associate dean who supervises the position went great, but I found out she's retiring in December. The library dean went fine, but he's a politician. Nice coversation with the people I'd be supervising, both of whom I know somewhat. The lunch with the faculty included 14 members of the department, cheap sandwiches, and some very agressive questioning that in retrospect I felt made them look bad. I hope they will be more politic with future candidates and hope they were that way with me because they know me (the two most aggressive people I've known for 20 years; one of them was my dissertation advisor and is the department chair.) It still was kind of ... shitty?

Now I'm home and exhausted and second guessing myself, but I'm holding on to how I felt at 4pm! This being an academic position, the other 2 campus visits aren't occurring until early October, so I would be very suprised if an offer is made to anyone before November.

I'd never heard of Knowledgeworks and I work with nonprofits, so I guess that's my bad, but also maybe their bad too? I can't even really figure out what they do. Charter schools? I feel like their web site is all coded language that I lack the code of.

Sounds like it went well, flea!

My primary is for county judge. My choice is between a 40 something qualified black woman who switched from the Republican Party after losing an election, and a 40 something year old white man who is endorsed by all the women's associations.

My doctor wants me to stop drinking diet Coke because the phosphoric acid is bad for my bones.

Meh, chew a Tums just before you drink it. Dialysis patients often get instructed to take a Tums or other source of calcium before eating each meal to bind with phosphorus in the foods they eat.

flea, I'm glad it went ok.

Meh, chew a Tums just before you drink it. Dialysis patients often get instructed to take a Tums or other source of calcium before eating each meal to bind with phosphorus in the foods they eat.

Huh! So noshing on cherry-flavored calcium tablets is not a waste of money. Cool!

It took me 45 minutes, a backtrack and 2.6 miles to get to work, normally 1.7 miles away. City decided to replace water mains on 33rd. I will be trying a different, more circuitous route tomorrow, and if that's just as bad, I see a lot of telecommuting until I move offices sometime in October. Fucking Hopkin's and its vanity projects. I have a complicated relationship with them and their complicated, sometimes exploitative, relationship with this city.

I bet it went really well, flea! Good luck.

Ugh, sara.

Thanks for nothing, Cincinnatians! Nah, just kidding. I'm looking at a job with one of their projects. I don't know that I would actually want to work from home, but the description sounded great.

Thing I just said on Facebook to a cousin who ranted about people who disrespect our flag don't deserve to be Americans and should leave the country:

You are so right! Whenever I see a Confederate flag, it makes me so angry, those traitorous losers! And then there are all the people who come down negatively on good citizens who work so hard to bring about liberty and justice for all, as we swore to do in the Pledge of Allegiance. That is simply unAmerican.