Sep. 27th, 2012 12:41 pm
Ignore a cold and it'll last a week
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muckefuckUgh. It's been a week since the first twinges of the cold made themselves known, so I should be all but rid of it by now, right? Instead I feel the worst I have all week. Of course this would happen when I'm trying to wrap up interviews for my term-time position. No one, it seems, is available to meet in the mornings, so I was already postponing my lunch in order to get a couple more interviews out of the way and make an initial offer this afternoon. I'm sure I can push on through those, but whether I'll still be around for my 2:30 is anyone's guess. If I had my druthers, I'd be on my way home already.
So far I have two solid candidates, one no-show, one tim'rous beastie who was ten minutes late, and one very engaging jazz enthusiast who isn't eligible for the position after all. Unless I get blown away by one of these kids I have scheduled, the offer is going to the earnest Iowan with proven skills. Whether he'll accept it or not is another question. Yesterday, we had a belated farewell lunch for my departing employee, a three-year veteran. "You won't find another as good as her," a colleague told me afterwards. Believe me, I'm all too conscious of that!
The weather continues to be awesome. There's a slow-moving front stuck south of us which means that St Louis is overcast and rainy and we're getting dry cloudless days and crisp cool nights. I've got ambitious plans for the weekend starting with dinner out tomorrow evening with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monshu and including a sleep-over visit from two Madison bears coming down for Game Night. Will I be feeling up to any of that? Who knows.
Update: Another solid candidate (which is good because my first choice just turned me down), another tim'rous beastie, and a smug hostile twerp.
Oh, and an hour after I wrote this, dark clouds rolled in. Not sure if they brought rain or not.
So far I have two solid candidates, one no-show, one tim'rous beastie who was ten minutes late, and one very engaging jazz enthusiast who isn't eligible for the position after all. Unless I get blown away by one of these kids I have scheduled, the offer is going to the earnest Iowan with proven skills. Whether he'll accept it or not is another question. Yesterday, we had a belated farewell lunch for my departing employee, a three-year veteran. "You won't find another as good as her," a colleague told me afterwards. Believe me, I'm all too conscious of that!
The weather continues to be awesome. There's a slow-moving front stuck south of us which means that St Louis is overcast and rainy and we're getting dry cloudless days and crisp cool nights. I've got ambitious plans for the weekend starting with dinner out tomorrow evening with
monshu and including a sleep-over visit from two Madison bears coming down for Game Night. Will I be feeling up to any of that? Who knows.Update: Another solid candidate (which is good because my first choice just turned me down), another tim'rous beastie, and a smug hostile twerp.
Oh, and an hour after I wrote this, dark clouds rolled in. Not sure if they brought rain or not.
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