Choices, choices
Sunday, October 17th, 2010 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniI have these proposals to finish up, so we can hopefully go to contract and have more work in future. Work in future is good, right?
Also, the day-job is in a slight mess because, in addition to everyday administrivia, I'm supervising three searches, which mostly has to do with opening envelopes, stamping dates, entering data and filing, so it sounds a lot of fancier than it is. One of the searches is at deadline, and, the tribe of wandering scholars being no different than, say, science fiction writers in matters of timing, almost everyone who is interested in the position has waited until the black, bitter end to submit their application.
Thursday, the number of applications on file doubled. Friday, which I took off in order to deal with a health issue, and whereby hangs a tale, was the deadline. The original plan -- to go in Saturday and enter data -- was vetoed by my faculty, who said that Monday was soon enough. However, the events of Friday have thrown a hex wrench into that -- I'll need to be gone for a couple hours, at least, in the middle of the day tomorrow -- so I thought I'd mosey in today and at least open envelopes, and sort things into data-entry-ready piles.
Except...my hands hurt. And, yanno, the proposals. And, opening envelopes hurts. Actually, you know what hurts? Stamping the date. Who'd've thought, right? And I hate the thought of all those applications stacked up, glowering. Sigh. Better part of valor probably really is to go in an hour early tomorrow, come back after the medical adventure, and work late. It'll put everything else back, and the key to day-job is to stay caught up, but -- argh.
So, what's everybody else doing today?
Also, the day-job is in a slight mess because, in addition to everyday administrivia, I'm supervising three searches, which mostly has to do with opening envelopes, stamping dates, entering data and filing, so it sounds a lot of fancier than it is. One of the searches is at deadline, and, the tribe of wandering scholars being no different than, say, science fiction writers in matters of timing, almost everyone who is interested in the position has waited until the black, bitter end to submit their application.
Thursday, the number of applications on file doubled. Friday, which I took off in order to deal with a health issue, and whereby hangs a tale, was the deadline. The original plan -- to go in Saturday and enter data -- was vetoed by my faculty, who said that Monday was soon enough. However, the events of Friday have thrown a hex wrench into that -- I'll need to be gone for a couple hours, at least, in the middle of the day tomorrow -- so I thought I'd mosey in today and at least open envelopes, and sort things into data-entry-ready piles.
Except...my hands hurt. And, yanno, the proposals. And, opening envelopes hurts. Actually, you know what hurts? Stamping the date. Who'd've thought, right? And I hate the thought of all those applications stacked up, glowering. Sigh. Better part of valor probably really is to go in an hour early tomorrow, come back after the medical adventure, and work late. It'll put everything else back, and the key to day-job is to stay caught up, but -- argh.
So, what's everybody else doing today?
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Date: 2010-10-17 01:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-17 01:41 pm (UTC)Me? I'm recovering from a migraine today. That and seeing if I have enough brain cells left to write. This is dubious, but the novel is giving me no peace.
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Date: 2010-10-17 07:38 pm (UTC)Hope your head feels better.
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Date: 2010-10-18 01:58 am (UTC)Head's just now settled enough to write.
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Date: 2010-10-17 02:10 pm (UTC)An opener like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-R-Electric-Letter-Opener/dp/B00006XY17/ref=sr_1_10
We also used a time clock like stamper:
http://www.amazon.com/Acroprint-ETC-Stamp-Digital-Clock/dp/B0006HUTOE/ref=sr_1_36
But even less expensive models of the stamper are probably a less likely purchase.
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Date: 2010-10-17 04:28 pm (UTC)The time-stamp -- I don't think I can talk that fast.
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Date: 2010-10-17 03:20 pm (UTC)I thought she was insane, and I when I am job hunting I try to apply within a day or two of finding the posting (but sometimes, if I missed the posting somehow...). It sounds like there are more people like my former colleague than I thought.
Chores around the house, interspersed with chatting with friends online.
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Date: 2010-10-17 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-17 07:46 pm (UTC)Plus, yanno, Admin doesn't actually know what's involved, clerically, in a search, and persists in believing -- or at least persists in saying that they believe -- that these things wouldn't happen in a well-regulated office where tasks were planned out ahead of time.
A couple years ago, one of our searches got several hundred applications. Nobody had looked for that kind of response. I was crushed, yelled for help to Admin, and was told, "Gee, that's tough. Maybe you should've planned better." And, yes, I'm still bitter.
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Date: 2010-10-18 01:51 am (UTC)After which, I'm going to spend an evening hanging out with my brother and his wife, and probably watching the first episode of Sherlock, the new modern-dress Sherlock Holmes TV series. (Could be amazing, could be amazingly awful; the main reason either of us is giving it a chance is the Steven Moffat byline, which has previously been attached to some of our favourite TV ever.)
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Date: 2010-10-18 02:51 am (UTC)