Thanks, -t! No layoffs announced this time. We’ll see what tomorrow’s NIH hearing on overhead reimbursement brings.

Good news so far Calli. Fingers still crossed.

All the job stress is so much worse than buying car stress, which is no fun. Job~ma all round.

Hyundai out as the remote parking is only on the combustion vehicles. Kia however has it on their electric cars. After 7 years all electric I can never go back.

I keep saying I'm going to get "ASK ME ABOUT MY FRAGILE MASCULINITY" stickers printed so that I can sneakily add them to parked Cybertrucks.

Ah, ha, ha, ha! I love that.

I think I missed a chance to say Happy Birthday to Beverly yesterday, so, Happy Birthday +1, Beverly!

And Happy Birthday to JonB.

DH should be progressing to a F2F interview for the current frontrunning job opp, sounds like. Maybe by next week, the interview. It's a really good fit for his skills and experience, so I have all my fingers and toes crossed. It's a contract-to-hire, which would be new for him, but, uh, he'll take it!

I am doing a 50+ job search workshop through the Jewish Council for Aging starting next week. Five full days on Zoom, every other day. Half doing it for, like, inspiration and stuff + making some contacts, but I a also expect I'll learn a thing or two + looking forward in particular to resume review/feedback. Plus, a refresher on how to interview.

(I actually did the same workshop four years ago, but then I got hired the very next week, so I never really put anything I learned to use! I do remember there was some useful info., though, so... why not!)

It's been a while since I had a "real" interview -- the last three jobs have been "I've worked with her; you'll love her," sort of... confirmational interviews? It's probably been more than 15 years since I interviewed with a "stranger." Yikes.

That workshop sounds like an excellent idea! A huge part of why I have stayed here for 12 years is how much I hate the whole job hunting process. Now it's probably completely different (tactically anyway) from last time I did it, but I never enjoyed any part of it and was never good at it

The garage where I usually park when I go see touring Broadway shows has a few spaces reserved for Teslas, next to the chargers. I'm pretty sure that it's always the same two cars there every time I've looked. One of them has one of the "I bought it before we knew about him" or whatever stickers.

We had a department meeting this morning, in which we didn't really learn much new. The university is still trying to figure out what the "Dear Colleagues" letter means. In particular, there are a bunch of scholarships specifically for minority students that aren't technically awarded by the university -- they're awarded by a foundation connected to the university -- and the lawyers are trying to figure out what rules apply to those. We also don't have good estimates for how many students there will be in the fall, since scholarships and visas are all on the line, which means we can only guess at how many courses to schedule, and which ones. And then the same visa issue applies to hiring new faculty, and all the questions about money means there's no definite answer on whether or not hiring new faculty is even possible.

Also, the university decided that the math department had too many people doing administrative duties, and they downsized the person who's been doing her job there for twenty years and knows all the processes and all the people and can basically get anything done, so she can't handle the visa issues like she usually would, and no one else in the department has any experience with that. Also, the copier is broken, seemingly beyond repair, and so the remaining department admin people are trying to figure out how to get a new copier, since stuff like that was always the job of the person who got downsized.

Happy Birthday, Jon B!

I hope the Kia turns out to be your dream car, Laura.

Thanks, all, for the happy birthday wishes. You're the bestest!

Oh, and the state senate just passed a bill saying that university faculty aren't allowed to strike.

Oh, no, Hil, that is a whole lot of bad!

Good grief, Hil.