((Many job candidates + very large classes) * a series of committee crises) + hours of dealing with comment spam = zero ability to post actual new thoughts this week.
Thinking will return soon. (I hope.)
Simple Math, or a Word Problem
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One could interpret your post as suggesting your own troubles somehow are equivalent to those of the job candidates, for which you might be struck down at any moment, I feel compelled to warn you.
Oh, Chun, you know perfectly well I intended no such thing. What all of the variables in the problem represent are not “troubles” but quantities of time. And there’s only so bloody much.