Tomorrow is the last day for SEED applications for the 2005-2006 terms.
Tanya and I are mostly helping people update the applications they already
sent in to which they now want to make changes, and still answering basic
eligibility questions. We are also sorting out seniority levelling questions –
whether this title for a technical service architect is equivalent in seniority
to that title for a senior software developer. I was on a Q&A conference call to
Bangalore late Tuesday night and I hope that some of those folks will apply.
So far, we have 69 Recent Hire applicants:
- China: 12
- Czech Republic: 2
- Germany: 2
- India: 23
- Russia: 11
- United States: 19
And we have 64 Established Staff applicants:
- China: 2
- Czech Republic: 2
- France: 2
- Germany: 2
- India: 6
- Israel: 1
- Singapore: 1
- The Netherlands: 1
- UK: 3
- United States: 43
I am answering SEED questions by email while eating breakfast, feeding the dogs,
changing the bird’s water, doing laundry, answering a frantic phone call from my son
who forgot-Zach’s-birthday-present-and-the-party-is-this-afternoon-Mom!,
and the usual morning stuff.
When I was out feeding the dogs and letting them run around the yard, I saw that
one of our huge prickley pear cactus had dropped a branch right on top of my blooming
alstromeira lillies. Sigh.
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“The minute we stop maintaining our gardens, the ravages of wind, snow, ice, droughts, floods, weeds, pests, and diseases transform them into something we never imagined. Basically, there’s no such thing as a “natural” garden, even one that consists entirely of native species. Much as we might like to deny it, nature abhors the garden.”
Peter Del Tredici, 2001
“Pacific Horticulture” July-Sep 2001 issue
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