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[dchenes]

I'm not sure how I'm still "junior staff" if I'm the only full-time person who knows how P&R works (and doesn't), and I'm on two internal committees (CV specialists and promotions FAQ list development for the web site) and will soon be on a task force for annual appointments. I'm sort of feeling neither-fish-nor-fowl, actually. I'm the most senior person on any promotions team, including the "senior staff", all of whom were hired after me. This month I finally got enough authority to be able to communicate with hospital departments without reviewing everything with my boss first. But I'm still considered "junior staff", so I have to be part of the phone coverage schedule and I have to go to junior staff meetings that are mostly about ordering food for senior promotions ad hoc committees. I should think about this some more and see if I can't come up with some way to be officially neither fish nor fowl. I can't be senior staff because I don't have a doctorate, but I've definitely outgrown the junior staff meetings.

On a serendipitous note, last month I was reading a book about WWII that quoted heavily from a set of interviews of the Nuremburg trial defendants, conducted by an American psychiatrist. Two weeks ago I ran across a book of those interviews, so now I'm reading that. I may have to go on an extended run of reading something silly afterward, though.