....though we did not get snow :(

First, thanks to jerosejr for the paid account and icon time! This has made my holiday season! *massive hugs*

BunBun is studying for her finals and doing her Latin translation in the bedroom, so it looks like I'll have at least an hour more of quality time uninterrupted in the office nook. I've done my UoP posts for the night, applied for a fellowship at Bryn Mawr, and taken a preliminary look at the rest of my job materials. This meant realizing I'd missed a couple deadlines, which is sad, but I'm moving on. I was just too overwhelmed and disorganized this fall, and if learning that lesson means missing out on a couple of opportunities, well, then that's why they call it a learning experience. I'm going to bang out a couple more cover letters before I crash for the night, so I can print them off on the good printer at work tomorrow and get them in the mail.

Why the push? Well, academia being what it is, the entire world is basically going to grind to a halt for two to three weeks, starting at 5pm next Friday. So anything that has to be received by January 1, I need to get moving now. I have a little leeway in there to do some of my work over the break, but I'd really rather it be out of my hands before every campus in the nation shuts down next week. I know nothing, or at least almost nothing, will move on the job search in that time. So I'd like to have my part of it done, so I can also move on to other things like finishing my book proposal and getting it in the mail, submitting a couple articles, and catching up on the encyclopedia entries I'm supposed to be writing. It will be nice not to think, breathe, and live job search for a few days. Though if I know me, I'll still be stressing a little bit.

Didn't get the new soaps up on the site tonight, that has to be priority this weekend if not before. Fortunately, things ship fast and cheap so I can take orders up through next week and still be able to get things to people in time for the holiday. I feel like I should have done more with the site this holiday, but I also know that searching for a Real Job (tm) had to be priority. *sigh* Y'all just wait until I'm a full time prof with more free time...:)

I also need to start on my cards and things for holiday_wishes , as I have quite the list. Perhaps I'll do some of those and then hit that fellowship application for Cornell...