Beware of gnome

I just gave my unofficial notice.  Holy crap.

The university cannot allow people to have two classifications at the same time (like student employee and SPA employee, which is the combination I was asking about).  I'm waiting to hear from my boss' boss (the associate registrar that heads my division) to talk to her about leaving.  I'm going to see if I can take a leave of absense or find some other way to be on good terms in case I want to come back.

This is hard, and scary.

[edited to fix to/two problem]

The meeting with Dr. J was epic awesomeness...but since we aren't sure that the university will let me keep my job, we're both concerned about continued funding.  I'm her first choice for this assistantship, but she wants me to feel completely certain that quitting my job (since it looks like it might come to that) is the right thing to do.

She wants me to help her write grants, do research, get published with her.  She basically wants to mentor me and nurture me as a scientist.

So I need advice....pursue this even with the risk involved (no budget guarantees for funding next academic year) or keep my current job? 

I went up to the Graduate School office, spoke with a couple people about the GA + keeping my job.  They didn't seem hopeful, but told me to email the Associate Dean of Graduate Study.  I'm waiting for a response....

If the response is that I have to choose, then I'm taking the GA.  I'll have to figure out how to transition between the positions because I want to give my current office a two week notice (because I want to leave on good terms in case I ever want to apply for another job here), but the director of my program wants me to start mid to late this week.

On a good note, I have 48 hours of vacation built up, and 18 hours of sick time that I ought to be able to use before I leave (well, I'll probably lose the sick time if I don't use it).  Assuming that my last day would be the 19th, my week + worth of vacation time will get me to the end of the month pay-wise.  I think this ought to be doable.

Current Mood: confused

WhatTheHell?Con is in full swing...gotta love a free con :-)

My back is trying to assault some nerves....my legs are numb in some places right now, and my calves feel half asleep.  This is really not good, and I think this warrants a visit to the orthopedic doctor ASAP (particularly because of the possibility of quitting my job and losing health insurance).  Walking is a bit difficult at this point, and that scares me.  Especially since my last ortho appointment pretty much went "here's some pain pills.  You're too young for surgery (and undertones of "don't pursue surgery unless you're willing to risk paralysis or other permanent nerve problems").

Enough of me bitching though....off to print off class reading to do during slow times at the con ^,^

We had freezing rain last night and work is closed today.  On one level, w00t....but I was going to meet with Dr. J (the head of my department) about the grad assistantship, meet with the grad school and HR to see how GA's are classified (to see what wiggling I'd have to do with my job...or if it would mean quitting my job), and I left my laptop there (I have a desktop so it's no big deal, but I like resting the lappy on the exercise bike and doing homework while I ride).

My back is somewhat better this morning, but all I've done so far is get out of bed, see if I had work, send a few emails, and check FB and LJ.  Not really anything physical.  We'll see.  I wish the university would have given notice last night about the closing so I could take a Percoset though....I can't take that stuff on a work night and expect to work the next day....with the narcolepsy, it means I'm asleep for 15+ hours straight.

*sigh* Oh well.  I sent an email to Dr. J offering to drive somewhere to meet her....ice isn't the best surface to drive on, but Minnesota roots make me stubborn in winter weather :-)

I was just offered a 20 hour a week graduate assistantship in my office, helping the head of the department with instructional design, co-curricular programming, and her research in gender and sport.  Holy crap!!  It's a one-semester GA though, so if I can't wiggle something with my current job at the Registrar's Office, I don't know what I'll do....this is a GA that could really help me in my career....

Current Mood: excited

Imagine that you had to change either your sex (biology) or your sexual orientation to save your life.  You can choose to change both, but you have to choose one to change....which would you change and why?

This is rather dichotomized, but it's an interesting thought exercise anyhow :-)

Wow, I went from yesterday being an awesome day of awesomeness to my back deciding that its OMG ANGRY.  It got tight when I was wandering around Target waiting for my prescription, morphed to "oh shit, bending over to feed the cats hurts," and this morning is at "who decided to stab me next to my L5 vertebra."  I'm having trouble walking (I limp with full strides, otherwise I'm shuffling around trying to not move my pelvic girdle).

To top it off, the ice maker in my freezer stabbed my lumbar ice pack.  I didn't see it until I put it on my work desk where it left blue goo.  Thankfully I had a little ice pack in the work freezer.

I have African dance today...I'll have to talk to my instructor to let her know that I'm going to be modifying moves because of this.

Damn it damn it damn it.

The more I've been cutting artificial stuff out of my personal food supply, the more disgusting it tastes when I do actually eat it.  My former favorite Amaretto Cheesecake yogurt tastes sickly sweet in a chemical-laden way.

Ewwwwww