<singing>Blame Canada!!<singing>

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The head of our research department is taking a job with the Univeristy of Alberta.

Rumors about this has been circulating for months. Today he made an offical annoucement. He will be leaving in six months.

sigh He’s a good man and a great researcher. I’m sad to see him go. But an endowed chair doesn’t come along everyday and it sounds like the U of A has a better way of doing things. (i.e. DH will be Head of Research, there will be a separate Adminstrative head. This will allow DH to do his genius/phd thing instead of filling out oversight and safety papers.)

Most of the phd’s I work with are on fellowship grants throught DH. I expect to see them finishing up their projects and scrambling for jobs in other labs. (Fellows don’t qualify for unemployment. That just sucks. :mad: )

My boss, Dr. P, gets a lot of financial and mental support from DH. Dr. P has been frantically filling out grant applications, so we’ll see what happens. ::shrug::

One of my co-workers is from Australia. He’s a china bloke. :smiley: (Hope I said that right). If we don’t get funding, he’ll have 28 days to pack up and go home. Another thing that just sucks.

Gotta love research. It’s like jumping from one melting ice burg to another. :rolleyes:

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Eh, dude probably saw the mice getting thicker coats and figured winter in Canada would be less harsh than what’s coming.

Do research types ever call each other “dude?”

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U of A has done some pretty damned awesome research and it’s one of the reasons I’m proud to call Alberta my home. I wish him good luck and a good warm parka.

4

Yep, but only on special occasions. Usually we call each other “fucking idiots.”