roachboy

i generally stay away from finance threads because--well--when i get up in the morning, i apparently douse myself liberally with cash repellent--maybe it is something that happens or i do before coffee--and so, like everything else that happens before coffee, it is something of a mystery.
but that cash repellent is a commodity like few others: the anti-musk, working on a hormone register that only cash can sense.
works like a charm.
o yes, it does.

i feel like one of those testimonials you see in advertisements.

anyway, what i wondered is: can you defer the research appointment for a semester or longer?
you can sometimes work it in academicland, but it takes a bit of finesse---the "wrapping up a major project, what can i do?" sorta thing.
being a court society, it is best to feel this sorta thing out on the dl, if you have an ally in the other school/place.

but it may not matter in the end.

my perspective on this is: i am not good at doing things i am not committed to. i get irritable. i stay irritable. it's not good. and i am not that committed to cash, for better or worse--but given that what is most important to me is making stuff, i have to have infrastructure in place, so i'm not cavalier about it either. but if it came down to the kind of choice you outline above, i would do what i'll make into a sentence aimed at you:

go for what makes you happiest.
someone--i cant remember who--someone i know tells me from time to time that this life isn't a dress rehearsal.
i think it's my brother, actually.
anyway, i dont pay attention to much of his advice (he's a bluegrass musician, for gods sake...) but that koan of his i kinda like.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite