March 2009

Staying solvent in penury

March 27, 2009

At last! The FIRST GLIMMER OF HOPE in the past 24 hours of number-crunching. If my figures are right, after I’m booted out into the financial snow I can continue to pay toward the Investment House mortgage, continue to live in the outrageous style to which I have become accustomed, and not go broke. The [...]

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Résumés on the wind!

March 27, 2009

No grass grows under this old lady’s feet, that’s for sure. Just sent out a résumé for a sweet part-time job that would be a great hoot, and e-mailed my book-length curriculum vitae to the English department chair at a nearby community college. Hey! We’ve only got nine months here to find a new job! [...]

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Ax falls but…uhm…bounces?

March 26, 2009

Okay, folks. Hang onto your hats. They gave me NINE. MONTHS’. NOTICE. That’s right. I’m canned, but in the slowest of slow-mo. They’re closing my office, but pretty clearly because they’re nervous about the faculty’s response (which will be stentorian), they’re “phasing it out.” They’re going to renew my contract at the start of the [...]

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A layoff strategy

March 26, 2009

On our morning walk, La Maya asked if I have a come-back planned should Her Deanship announce, during this afternoon’s unexpected audience, that the Great Desert University intends to lay me off. As a matter of fact, I do. Several recessions ago in a galaxy far, far away, I happened to read a magazine article [...]

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Uh oh! Watch this space…

March 25, 2009

So I sneak out early this afternoon, planning to play hooky tomorrow, and upon arriving back at the house around 3:00 p.m. check the e-mail. What do I find but a summons to an audience with Her Deanship tomorrow afternoon! Sumbitch. What is that about? You can be sure that Her Deanship does not waste [...]

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Moments of Fame

March 25, 2009

This week several carnival hosts have kindly featured various recent squibs from Funny. The question about the worst financial mistake you didn’tmake appears in the 197th Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted this week by Four Pillars, who set a theme of the basics of personal finance. Hah! One of Four Pillars’s editor’s picks is My [...]

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