Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Chronicle's "Vitae" becoming pointless

I have subscribed to job search alerts through the Chronicle of Higher Education's job search for, well years and years. I have always been (very passively) looking for the right solution to our two body problem. The Chronicle changed its service recently to something called Vitae.

https://chroniclevitae.com/

Seems targeted, right?

For the last oh, 6 months or so, it has been completely spammed by a few "institutions" which advertise mostly undesirable positions EVERY DAY. It has become an extreme annoyance.

I see these every time I get an e-mail from them. If these were truly desirable positions, they shouldn't have to perpetually advertise for them. Also Vitae should probably cap the number of repeat ads.
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Central Washington University in Washington, United States
posted on June 10
Central Washington University in Washington, United States
posted on June 03
Westwood College in Virginia, United States
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

reading suggestion

On ‘Poor Husbands’ and Two-Body Problems

- See more at: https://chroniclevitae.com/news/609-on-poor-husbands-and-two-body-problems?cid=megamenu#sthash.2oPKxcmh.dpuf
On "poor husbands" and two-body problems
On ‘Poor Husbands’ and Two-Body Problems

On ‘Poor Husbands’ and Two-Body Problems

- See more at: https://chroniclevitae.com/news/609-on-poor-husbands-and-two-body-problems?cid=megamenu#sthash.2oPKxcmh.dpuf

On ‘Poor Husbands’ and Two-Body Problems

- See more at: https://chroniclevitae.com/news/609-on-poor-husbands-and-two-body-problems?cid=megamenu#sthash.2oPKxcmh.dpuf

Friday, July 11, 2014

We won the lottery!

Random bullets of not-necessarily crap:

  • Have a draft waiting to be finished about how our marriage has deteriorated since a month or two before the move. Went to counseling today. We're going to make it, but we are entering the "hard work" phase of our relationship.
  • Trying to analyze data from my sabbatical. Will need to go back for one more experiment at the end of this month.
  • Meanwhile, time to read and choose textbooks for Fall courses ASAP.
  • Lose our Au Pair at the end of the month. Have begun to cobble together child care from care.com and sittercity.com. Lots of fish in the sea. Let's see how the retention is...
  • Enrolled my son in kindergarten today. He blew the lid off the entrance evaluation. When I asked about gifted programs, I was informed that our school district is excellent at bringing English Language learners up to speed and serving the lower tier learners. But gifted? I was encouraged to be an activist within the school district...
And finally...
  • EXCELLENT NEWS that will make it VERY HARD TO MOVE! We won the lottery to get my son (and daughter, as it is automatic) into the bilingual program!!!. Now half of his entire early elementary school hours will be conducted in Spanish. We are ecstatic!!! 


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