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fleaLooking for a house is okay; we are still in the "figuring out what we want and what is available and what we can afford" phase. It's still sort of windowshopping; until we get down there it probably won't dawn on me that we have to actually BUY one of these houses.
But talking to mortgage brokers is stressful like whoa. I hate anything that implies that prices are negotiable - I am like the anti-haggler - and I still feel very at sea about the whole process. Lender #1 writes, "do you plan to pay taxes and fees with the payments" and all I want to do is write back "How the fuck should I know?"
ION, we are doing THREE full-day interviews for my search committee next week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. And one more at a time yet to be determined. The good news is, this means nice dinners out with the candidates. The bad news is, intense! And now that the names of people we are interviewing are released, another layer of stress, as one is an internal candidate and another is local and the spouse of a former employee (who left to have kids).
Book club is discussing Suite Francaise tonight; I LOVED it, and I really don't like much fiction. I regret that it's unfinished - there are only the barest notes of where she intended to go with it, and they were surprising to me given what exists - the story about the author and the circumstances surrounding its 60-year delayed publication are as much of a novel as the work itself.
But talking to mortgage brokers is stressful like whoa. I hate anything that implies that prices are negotiable - I am like the anti-haggler - and I still feel very at sea about the whole process. Lender #1 writes, "do you plan to pay taxes and fees with the payments" and all I want to do is write back "How the fuck should I know?"
ION, we are doing THREE full-day interviews for my search committee next week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. And one more at a time yet to be determined. The good news is, this means nice dinners out with the candidates. The bad news is, intense! And now that the names of people we are interviewing are released, another layer of stress, as one is an internal candidate and another is local and the spouse of a former employee (who left to have kids).
Book club is discussing Suite Francaise tonight; I LOVED it, and I really don't like much fiction. I regret that it's unfinished - there are only the barest notes of where she intended to go with it, and they were surprising to me given what exists - the story about the author and the circumstances surrounding its 60-year delayed publication are as much of a novel as the work itself.