The Blogmeister is getting cauliflower ears from having them to the ground so much lately. What am I picking up? A few things:
I hear a dean has taken a looooong time to decide on a very well-qualified and active TFA member's promotion and has departed from how things have been handled in the past. The Blogmeister sincerely hopes that this dean is not trying to reignite the flames of an old brush fire. Blow on embers long enough, however, and flames do, sure enough, jump back to life. The Blogmeister had backed off because, on the whole, people were behaving themselves. One would think that with as much trouble as this high-level UTMB official already has, particularly trying to recruit sorely-needed new faculty, the good dean would have more constructive things to do. On the other hand, the Blogmeister always loves to visit an old flame.
I hear an old ally has finally caved under pressure and pretty much gone over to the Dark Side to keep a job. A hurricane and a RIF will do that to a person.
UTMB is still looking far and wide for nurses. As readers are aware, the Blogmeister's sister is in the hospital in College Station. A nurse there told me she got a call from UTMB. She's not coming, by the way.
