Soooo....

[Mousey Girl]

*sigh*

I have stuff to do today, since I am off, but I just can't get motivated to do anything.

I did do the caculations and right now Asshat owes me almost $3000. Mostly because he didn't pay anything in July. Needless to say, I didn't sleep much last night.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Originally Posted by lindyhop

Do our brains all turn to mush when we pick up a cell phone? What was she thinking? Actually the stupidest thing was that I couldn't bring myself to flush the toilet until she was finished with her phone call. Maybe she didn't mind having a phone conversation with the sound of toilets flushing in the background but I don't think that whoever she was talking to had to know what I was doing.

Yes, sometimes I think our brains *do* turn to mush when we deal with a phone. I don't like the people who *have* to answer a phone if it rings, even if they have a real live person they're talking to. If it's an important call, then maybe, but please respect the fact that you have a guest. My mom gets aggravated by the people at her work who have to call somebody, anybody, the second they get off work. Must be on the phone!!!! It's weird.

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I would have been flushing frequently. Or making loud noises of a bathroom nature.

But that's just me.

I'd have done exactly the same thing.

Originally Posted by Prudence

mmmmmmm..... new laptop!

Congrats!

Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

I need a shirt that says "Guess what? I didn't get the job."
It would cut down on alot of needless conversation.

**hugs** That stinks.

Originally Posted by Mousey Girl

I did do the caculations and right now Asshat owes me almost $3000. Mostly because he didn't pay anything in July. Needless to say, I didn't sleep much last night.

Not smart of him to ignore his obligations. And how does he think that his leaving isn't going to affect Nick???

Morri, that stinks that your deal is having difficulties. Hopefully it'll work out so everybody's happy.

[Prudence]

So, I'm broke, no savings, no job after December, no clue where my life is going. What am I doing? Making my Disneyland PSRs!

Is it October yet?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Prudence

So, I'm broke, no savings, no job after December, no clue where my life is going. What am I doing? Making my Disneyland PSRs!

Then it sounds like you have your priorities straight!

[Morrigoon]

I'd like to thank the powers that be that put the thought into my head to check and see if there was any food downstairs. Somebody brought in Pasta Bravo! (Normally title companies bring in food on Tuesdays, so having there be something downstairs on a Wednesday is unusual... but nice!) And me being so hungry and all.

As far as the deal... my clients are thinking about whether they want to bother, and looking into how much it would be. Because the bank is not going to want to deal with actually having the a/c installed, they'll be more amenable to giving a credit of some kind for the cost of doing it, and have the client do it after close of escrow.

And then there's the matter of seeing if the bank is going to accept a new, lower offer. Which I'm guessing not, because the bank probably thought they were selling a place with no a/c and my buyers thought they were buying a place with a/c. But we'll see... the listing agent has a bit of egg on their face now for having it wrong in the MLS originally, so hopefully they will champion our cause to the seller if my buyers still feel like buying.

[Prudence]

x-posted - sorry for those of you seeing this twice.

Yes, it's episode eleventy-two of "things that are conspiring to drive Prudence mad"

Or: No, it's not all in her head, some people really are out to get her.

Just got off the phone with the clerkship adviser at my school. It's a new position this year. SU has never really pushed students to do clerkships before. I don't think there's been anyone from SU clerking federally for years, and no list of judges who've hired SU alumni (and thus don't go "where?!" when they see our transcripts.)

But, getting students out and clerking is a way to increase the profile of the school, which will increase the school's ranking in the annual US News & World Report thingy. Driving up the ranking is the Dean's #1 priority, and getting students clerking is her #1 priority way of accomplishing that. So, that's why I've been encouraged to apply like I have been - applying anywhere I'd be willing to go, as broadly as possible. As fast as possible. And preferably by US Mail, because the online system sees me as a current student.

(For those who haven't heard me say this a billion times already, rising 3Ls can't apply until September 4. Graduates can apply any time. No one knows what to do with students graduating in December, who are over half-way through their 3L year and thus not rising 3Ls, but also not graduates. In the past, we've been treated as grads (everyone with a 2007 graduation date is treated the same - May, June, August, December, whatever), but the people who run the online application system decided - just this year, of course, to lump us in with the current students, because in their view we're regular students who took extra classes and are graduating a term early to cheat the system, and not part-time students graduating a term late. Whatever.)

The preference is to send hard-copy applications to judges that don't require the online application system, so that we can get seen early. Because as soon as a judge finds a candidate they like, the position is filled. They don't wait until the posted deadline, review all the applications, schedule interviews, and do all the interviews, and then decide. They schedule interviews as applications come in, and as soon as they get one they want, that's it - game over.

So, why is Prudence bitching today, you might ask? Because I just found out from the clerkship adviser that I'm not imagining things - the staff responsible for generating the faculty reference letters have been DELIBERATELY stonewalling the process. "Pushback" was the term used. The staff have decided, all on their own, that students are applying to too many places, because it's never been like this before. The latter part is true, because the school has never pushed this possibility before. And now it is, and so letters are needed. And they're needed in a timely fashion, so that we can get applications in BEFORE the position is filled.

But no, the staff don't want us to do that. And that's why it takes 3 weeks to get 10 letters from a mail merge data source *I* provided, ready for merging with the ALREADY WRITTEN reference letter. Because the staff think our requests are inappropriate, they won't do them. Period.

So, the Dean says "apply!" The career office says "apply!" And the staff say "tough sh!t, no reference letters until we feel like printing them."

I know it's a PITA to do this stuff. I used to have that sort of job and had to do the letters. I know. I'm sorry. I would have brought them chocolates at the end to thank them. But no, now they get nothing. They have deliberately been not producing the letters, which means that several times I've mailed off packets and later that day growled as the job status changed to "filled". What if I had been able to mail that 3 weeks earlier? Hmmmm?

The good news is that the Dean has authorized the clerkship person to hire a temp who will now produce all these letters as the temp's sole and exclusive task. The bad news is that it will take a week at least to get this person hired and get the reference letter files from the secretaries - who apparently are even resisting the idea of someone ELSE doing the work, because we are just greedy students who don't deserve nice jobs.

The reason I've been so miserable the past year or so is that it feels like at every turn in this job search process, something goes terribly - and unusually - wrong. A bad grade was a mistake. Can't apply until 9/4. Secretaries won't provide references. Law school felt right, felt like what I was supposed to do, but these roadblocks are so infuriating. Every day I want to give up. I feel like I'm in a marathon and I've hit the "wall" and now I'm just mind-over-mattering myself forward. Why the **** am I doing this to myself? I keep hoping that this is some karmic down payment on what will eventually be wonderful, but then more **** happens and I think well, maybe this is the wrong path after all? Maybe I'm suppose to be a stay-at-home mom or something. Nothing wrong with that as a career, but it's not the career I want. I want to research and analyze and write and split the hair and argue about whose half-hair is larger.

And right now I want to beat my own brains out on the nearest brick wall.

And thus concludes today's episode of "what the hell is wrong with that Prudence chick?"

[CoasterMatt]

I don't think anything's wrong with that Prudence chick, it sounds like she's surrounded by morons.

BTW, they make really cool foam brick walls that are great for pounding against - it's also a great way to scare strangers.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

It sounds like that Prudence chick is doing the best she can. Which is all we can ask of anybody.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

BTW, they make really cool foam brick walls that are great for pounding against - it's also a great way to scare strangers.

I need a few of those. Where can I buy them?

I also need cheap airfare to GA the weekend of Sept 7th.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Prudence

And thus concludes today's episode of "what the hell is wrong with that Prudence chick?"

It's not you that's f*cked up.

Pru, I feel for you and for your frustration, totally.

{{{{hugs}}}} and sneaks you a baseball bat to do some damage to an inanimate object to release a little of that frustration