random babblings
I don't really have all that much to say, but I'm a bit bored right now, so I'll probably babble on at great length about nothing in particular. You've been warned.
This morning, my boss accepted a job offer at the U. of Minnesota, and has been grinning madly all day. He's hoping to start at his new job by the beginning of April. This impacts my life in a variety of ways. First, it means that I'm going to have to start taking over a lot of his job duties, like supervising student employees, attending committee meetings (which I did this morning), doing database maintenance, and so on and so forth. Hooray for marketable experience.
Second, it means that I'm losing my buffer for dealing with our psycho department head. On the flipside of this, it means that my boss is free to say whatever he damn well pleases in two weeks when he meets with our AUL to report on our department head's behaviour. He's had to do this before, and has been very careful to omit things that would be outright lies, but he also hasn't been able to report on just how bad a manager she is, because he knows it would come back to bite him. Now that he's got a job somewhere else, however, he's free to say all the things that really need to be said.
Third, it means that his job is going to be available soon, so I need to decide whether I'm going to go for it or not. On the pro side: 24 years old and the Coordinator of Tech. Services in the Special Collections Library of a major, well-known university? How awesome would that look on my resume? Plus, I'd get to keep my awesome apartment, quiet neighborhood, 15-minute commute, fabulous library, and various social groups (costumer's guild, vintage dancers, etc.) On the Con side: I'd be stepping into the position that drove my last boss to depression from dealing with our psycho department head. Steve is kind of falling apart back in L.A., between getting frustrated with the lack of discipline and scientific training of the hippies he's working with, the lack of spirituality of the scientific types he's working with, and the fact that his dad's starting to accept that he's probably not going to recover from his cancer. Besides, I can count on my fingers the number of times I've hung out with my non-work friends (except Hal) in San Diego since moving down here 7 months ago.
The other news on the job front is that, while the position that I saw advertised at the L.A. natural history museum is probably not a good match for me, one of my former supervisors from UCLA knows somebody at the natural history museum, who thinks that there may be another position opening up soon, and gave me some contact info to find out more about it. I've also e-mailed CSUDH to meet with somebody over coffee to talk about the job. I told my former supervisor there about my two concerns (i.e. tenure/publish-or-perish and housing), and am waiting to hear back from him about that.
For those of you who are actually interested in sewing, and have made it this far, I'm afraid that all I have to report is that I cut out the pattern pieces for the Simplicity regency undies last night while watching the old black-and-white version of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the 1995 version of Persuasion. I traced out my size onto my roll of cheap, expendable paper tablecloth, and if any of you are interested, it seems to run about 2 sizes large. According to my bust measurement, I should be about a size 18, but when I measured the pattern, my rib cage measurement more closely matched size 14. When will Simplicity learn that CORSETS DO NOT REQUIRE EASE. After that, I looked over the full regency corset pattern in Period Costume for Stage & Screen, and decided that, armed with the bust gusset placement from the Simplicity pattern, it may be worth just trying to draft/scale up my own. We'll see how long that resolve lasts. I'm skipping dance class tonight, and will probably make a test run of the regency short stays tonight while running a load of laundry.
This morning, my boss accepted a job offer at the U. of Minnesota, and has been grinning madly all day. He's hoping to start at his new job by the beginning of April. This impacts my life in a variety of ways. First, it means that I'm going to have to start taking over a lot of his job duties, like supervising student employees, attending committee meetings (which I did this morning), doing database maintenance, and so on and so forth. Hooray for marketable experience.
Second, it means that I'm losing my buffer for dealing with our psycho department head. On the flipside of this, it means that my boss is free to say whatever he damn well pleases in two weeks when he meets with our AUL to report on our department head's behaviour. He's had to do this before, and has been very careful to omit things that would be outright lies, but he also hasn't been able to report on just how bad a manager she is, because he knows it would come back to bite him. Now that he's got a job somewhere else, however, he's free to say all the things that really need to be said.
Third, it means that his job is going to be available soon, so I need to decide whether I'm going to go for it or not. On the pro side: 24 years old and the Coordinator of Tech. Services in the Special Collections Library of a major, well-known university? How awesome would that look on my resume? Plus, I'd get to keep my awesome apartment, quiet neighborhood, 15-minute commute, fabulous library, and various social groups (costumer's guild, vintage dancers, etc.) On the Con side: I'd be stepping into the position that drove my last boss to depression from dealing with our psycho department head. Steve is kind of falling apart back in L.A., between getting frustrated with the lack of discipline and scientific training of the hippies he's working with, the lack of spirituality of the scientific types he's working with, and the fact that his dad's starting to accept that he's probably not going to recover from his cancer. Besides, I can count on my fingers the number of times I've hung out with my non-work friends (except Hal) in San Diego since moving down here 7 months ago.
The other news on the job front is that, while the position that I saw advertised at the L.A. natural history museum is probably not a good match for me, one of my former supervisors from UCLA knows somebody at the natural history museum, who thinks that there may be another position opening up soon, and gave me some contact info to find out more about it. I've also e-mailed CSUDH to meet with somebody over coffee to talk about the job. I told my former supervisor there about my two concerns (i.e. tenure/publish-or-perish and housing), and am waiting to hear back from him about that.
For those of you who are actually interested in sewing, and have made it this far, I'm afraid that all I have to report is that I cut out the pattern pieces for the Simplicity regency undies last night while watching the old black-and-white version of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the 1995 version of Persuasion. I traced out my size onto my roll of cheap, expendable paper tablecloth, and if any of you are interested, it seems to run about 2 sizes large. According to my bust measurement, I should be about a size 18, but when I measured the pattern, my rib cage measurement more closely matched size 14. When will Simplicity learn that CORSETS DO NOT REQUIRE EASE. After that, I looked over the full regency corset pattern in Period Costume for Stage & Screen, and decided that, armed with the bust gusset placement from the Simplicity pattern, it may be worth just trying to draft/scale up my own. We'll see how long that resolve lasts. I'm skipping dance class tonight, and will probably make a test run of the regency short stays tonight while running a load of laundry.