No way to run a university, part II

[nmg]

Just had a brief chat with Glorious Leader's secretary, since GL was out of the office and apparently couldn't speak to me himself. Both Glorious Leader and Eternal Leader (my PhD supervisor) are on the interview panel. They both have notoriously full schedules; I've not seen Glorious Leader for more than a couple of minutes in total since the last week of May, and I regularly used to go for three or four months between meetings with Eternal Leader when she was my supervisor. The upshot of this is that there is no other option but for me to cancel my leave next week, and consequently for ias to cancel her leave as well, because there's no way that they can reconvene the interview panel at another time.

For the last five minutes, I've been trying to work out how to express just how angry I am at this turn of events, without recourse to obscenity, but to no avail.

Comments

[professoryaffle.livejournal.com]

Well I hope despite how much they are screwing you around at the moment you get a fellowship through this

[ias.livejournal.com]

Have booked Friday off, my love.

And we'll probably have to go and see The Fog of War on Thursday night at 8.30 as the programme may well change on Friday.

This really sucks donkeys. Through a flat straw.

[killtest.livejournal.com]

Serious sympathy and righteous pouring of fire from the sky on those in line for it...

Forgive my fuzzy memory but weren't you having trouble with Glorious Leader and the Uni, the last time I was in your orbit?

AK47. Oh fuckit, that's my answer to everything. Bush is on the radio again.. Cat's thrown up in the sitting room.. Mormons at the door - AK47. I so lack an imagination.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Indeed I was. Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose, as our French cousins would say.