Luckily there’s really no stress this time of year…
LOL…yeah…lucky for me. The good news is I upped the kiddo’s med to twice a day for the last several days and he’s feeling much better which reduces my stress level by a ton. I’m hoping that we’ll be able to drop back to once a day after a few days, but this might be the dosage he needs. As far as I go…as long as I remember to take my frakkin’ meds, the headaches aren’t too bad. Unfortunately, I forget about once a week and within 24 hours I’ve got a killer headache. This is a tough time of year because of being so busy…I just have to force myself to remember…or suffer the consequences. Literally.
Keara, Doc. Cottle called me and asked me to repost this for you. The Doctor says this should help ease your headaches.
Lol !! I swear I only wear my pink cherry PJ’s to Frak Parties !!
I do hope you feel better, Keara! And your little guy too.
LOL…that Doc Cottle…he’s a smart old coot!
There was a house fire across the street from my house. Everyone got out OK but their house is a loss. :eek:
I like to think of myself as more of a type A-
I was feeling pretty good about myself until I got an email from Trinity College, a liberal arts college in Hartford, CT where I’d applied for a teaching job. Their closing date was a frakking month ago, and they’ve already picked a candidate. Who wasn’t me. I WANTED that job.
Frak 'em, those frakkers! Frak ‘em right in their mother-frakkin’ ears.
Wait, what? They sent you an email a month after the fact? I know it’s a liberal arts college, but still…
I am sorry to hear that since I know how passionate you are about music.
They found the body of a little girl that has been missing since the summer. I feel very sorry for the family.
:mad:Frak’in hippies:mad:
Maybe they’d be more receptive at a conservative arts college?
Frak 'em. What’re the criteria for teaching music? Is it comparable to how schools want a ph.d or ABD for other disciplines? Or is it more performance/résumé-oriented?
Not a month after the fact. A month after the closing deadline. Which is REALLY fast. Academic job searches are slow like molasses. This means that they had someone already lined up for the job, most likely, but were still required by law to announce a search. ARRRRRGH!
The friend I’m staying with has just lost his job too. He got glowing marks on his performance review with a recommendation for promotion to the tenure track, but because he wasn’t in the tenure track already he’s being downsized due to budget cuts. He got both letters ON THE SAME DAY.
Life is, indeed, absurd.
Frak 'em. What’re the criteria for teaching music? Is it comparable to how schools want a ph.d or ABD for other disciplines? Or is it more performance/résumé-oriented?
Actually, you do need a PhD or DMA (Doctorate of Musical Arts). I’ve got one of those. From one of the top music programs in the country. I have a Master’s from an Ivy League school and a BM from one of the top conservatories in the country. I founded a group that in just four years has become an important part of the music scene in the nation’s capital. I have received commissions and been performed in some pretty major places. I’ve studied with Pulitzer and McArthur prize winners. And yet, after ten years, I’m STILL without a secure job. One wonders what people are looking for.
Frak 'em.
Oh jesus! That is horrible. Hearing news like that makes me want to go home and hug my girls and never let them out of the house again.
I was this close to having an entry for the “Cool Craaaaap” thread, but…
I almost won a set of South Park figurines at a White Elephant exchange tonight, but someone stole them from me on a later round. A good friend who knew I was geeking out about them. I offered to complete the set for him with my own custom-made Mr. Hankie.
Sorry to hear your news Armando, I know how hard you’ve been working at getting a permanent position.
I’m here today because I got another upsetting email from a writer friend who likes to tell all about her writing accomplishments and doesn’t even bother to ask how my writing is going. We have several mutual friends in a writing group, so I don’t feel good about telling her to frak off. The latest email really hit its target because she sent out her queries to agents and I’m behind on that. I know I shouldn’t let her bragging (which I know is insecurity) get to me, but it did this time.
I saw some job openings on the MLA Job list for my discipline that asked for such specific requirements that I thought that a) they don’t know what they want or b) they know the one person in the world that can fulfill that, and plan to hire them.
My university ended up canceling all the searches… we’re all losing in this. But that doesn’t make it better.
You’re supposed to be a super hero. At least, that is what it sounds like.
I’m terrified of the job market. Entirely terrified.
And where’s Starbuccaneer, if we’re going to be complaining about the academy?
So my first exam was my english exam: it destroyed me. Compleatly. I wasnt even close to finishing :(. It was the one exam that I thought I could have that would pull up my grade
Epic fail.
The bad news keep on pilingL I lost a grant that I kind of needed to get. I was expecting not to get it for a couple of weeks, when I saw the list of previous winners. Since it’s administered by Harvard, they tend to favor composers whose music they find aesthetically pleasing, mostly consisting of highly experimental and/or computer-driven things. So I’m not terribly upset, but now have to write a large piece for a lot less money than I’d hoped. Oh well!
This must be a different usage of “aesthetically pleasing” that I wasn’t previously aware of.
Says the guy who listens to chiptunes.