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dr_whomSo I have a job interview coming up from the University of New Hampshire! Yay!
They told me they'd prefer to interview me at the LSA conference, but would do a Skype interview if I couldn't make it to the LSA. So I spent a couple of days basically thinking about whether it would be worth, you know, $500 to travel across the country for the sake of a small improvement in my chances of making a good impression at a job interview. Eventually I decided that it was, and so last night I bought plane tickets (a 6am flight! boo!) and e-mailed UNH to tell them I'd be at the LSA after all. They said That's fine, but we've changed our minds and have decided to do all our interviews via Skype anyway.
So... I guess I'm going to the LSA now?
UPDATE: I'm not. Tickets are canceled; I decided I didn't want to deal with the 6am flight, and got my money back.
They told me they'd prefer to interview me at the LSA conference, but would do a Skype interview if I couldn't make it to the LSA. So I spent a couple of days basically thinking about whether it would be worth, you know, $500 to travel across the country for the sake of a small improvement in my chances of making a good impression at a job interview. Eventually I decided that it was, and so last night I bought plane tickets (a 6am flight! boo!) and e-mailed UNH to tell them I'd be at the LSA after all. They said That's fine, but we've changed our minds and have decided to do all our interviews via Skype anyway.
So... I guess I'm going to the LSA now?
UPDATE: I'm not. Tickets are canceled; I decided I didn't want to deal with the 6am flight, and got my money back.
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Date: 2011-12-09 04:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-09 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-09 05:16 pm (UTC)i've decided i'm not going, but i'll regret this decision if UConn honors me with an interview.
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Date: 2011-12-09 05:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-09 08:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-09 07:05 pm (UTC)You generally have 24 hours after buying plane tickets to cancel them without a penalty.
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Date: 2011-12-09 11:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-10 01:31 am (UTC)I want to go to LSA one of these days, but it's obviously not going to happen this year!
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Date: 2011-12-10 08:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-09 07:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-09 09:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-10 03:04 am (UTC)...oh damn. I... was going to go, wasn't I? Only I'm not.
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Date: 2011-12-10 08:24 am (UTC)I actually thought of that! But the 6am flight weighed too heavily in the opposite direction.
...oh damn. I... was going to go, wasn't I? Only I'm not.
There's still time to if you want! Preregistration doesn't end for another couple of weeks and I bet there are better choices for flights out of New York than out of Philly.
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Date: 2011-12-10 03:24 pm (UTC)Yeah, I don't know. I suspect that going to the LSA this year would make me feel bad about myself, if that makes sense, and if really I just want to visit Al, well, there are probably better times of year for that.
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Date: 2011-12-10 03:44 pm (UTC)That makes sense (i.e., I understand what you mean). And indeed if you were going to visit Al you could do that at any more convenient time.
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Date: 2011-12-10 04:04 pm (UTC)I might feel differently next year. Or not. Sometimes it just seems... well, you know. You've been there recently yourself.
Anyway! I have utterly missed the point thus far, which is: congratulations at getting all these interviews and shortlists! And good luck.
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Date: 2011-12-10 05:11 pm (UTC)Anyway: Thanks!