GAO revisited; Weekend getaway? and Fucktarded compstaff

About that GAO thing…

Well, late monday, after I’d faxed my transcripts, etc, I got an email from one of my interviewers urging me to apply, and telling me that there were two rounds of application. I explained my last minute awareness of the opportunity posting, my unawareness of the second round, and my feelings of excessive haste in composing my application. I asked her for advice. She had hr dump my old app, and said I could reapply in wave 2. She then offered pointers on how to write the essays I glossed over earlier. (turns out I was on the right track, but needed more detail.) Does this sound like a high level of interest on their part? Sure does to me. I’ll take care of it within the next seven days.

Speaking of the next seven days, travelzoo is offering some sweet travel dears. 175 round trip to denver (where I’ve never been and know no one, the former is good, the latter is bad), 202 round trip to washington dc (vice-versa). It’s pretty sweet, and a nice fantasy, but both financially and temporally, not so swell. OTOH, minneapolis has been remarkably temperate the past couple days. After discovering I’d left my laptop on campus, I took the bus back to campus this evening without a coat, hat, or gloves, and never really felt uncomfortably cold. Have I seen the worst that the winter has to offer already? Sure, it sucked at points, but it still seems to have warmed up so quickly. Winter should involve doubt as to whether the sun and moon were eaten by a great wolf. 😉

Oh yeah, and I want to stab compstaff so much. They completely fucked up our departmental webpage in the transition between web publishing systems. I do not want to have to go through inordinate sums of effort just to straighten up this new “more convenient” system that I am at best skeptical of. They should be eaten by rabid weasels.