The very first Californian poppies are blooming in the back yard! I strewed handfuls and handfuls of them, and I'm hoping that these will be the first of many.
This was a cheerful sight to start a day that then rapidly went downhill when the University told us that our senior search has been halted - when we had already started bringing candidates to campus - for when they said that cuts and budget restrictions would start immediately, they meant it. We feel particularly angry about this, because we were all ready to roll with this search in January - and then the fires happened, and half of our committee was houseless, and all of us were rattled, distracted, distressed - and it would have been unrealistic to bring senior candidates to campus at that moment. So we ran our junior search, regrouped, had one senior candidate visit - and now, bam. Nada.
That's so enraging! Everyone's labor, time, and energy... down the drain just like that. We are fuming on your behalf. Our (hefty) Warrior Princess is ready to kick some admin butt.
ReplyDelete... that should put the fear of - well, I don't know what, into them. Except they may be cyborgs, and impervious.
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