oh, the resilience of children

[flea]

Dillo has a full-on, can't stop crying meltdown an hour ago. Over our refusal to take him to Chik-fil-A for ice cream right that second. I was sure we'd get dinner in him and get him to bed by 7.

Now he has peed, eaten, done a puzzle with me, and pooped, and is excessively cheerful, counting to 21, and looks poised to go on all night.

I meanwhile am exhausted.

Also, there is a Classics Librarian job open at Yale. Salary range $51-78K. Freestanding classics library of 32,000 volumes, position manages 5-8 students, union environment, liaison to the department, manages web pages, etc. And here I sit in Georgia, with a house, a spouse whom I trail, and children.

Comments

[meara]

I don't suppose there's anything in your spouses field there? Perhaps he should trail you!

...though it's probably more expensive to live there? Um.

[flea]

He is so very specialized- the problem with the PhD.

And New Haven does have its issues. OTOH, probably not usually 95 degrees in late September.

[vaznetti]

Hi!

I have very fond memories of that library, and the somewhat eccentric Italian woman who used to run it, but I am not sure Yale is always an ideal working environment.

[flea]

There are certain ominous indications of that from the job description, yes. "Ability to effectively build partnerships and promote the benefits of change in an academic culture that often values ambiguity, diversity of opinion, and historic precedent."