[Readers will have to imagine me in a suitably heroic pose of the non-Blackadder variety at this point]
Seminars are now extremely useful though, as due to a surfeit of riches at the Czech Academy of Sciences they decided to fund all three of our group's grant applications. So I get a higher salary and the group is now searching for three (!) new postdocs : one in star formation in the galactic centre, one in star formation in clusters, and one in optically dark hydrogen clouds that don't do anything (you can guess which one is mine). Anyone want to become my assistant and
In other news I won this year's institutional Jan Fric (the founder of the institute) award, so I get another shiny award ceremony in January (and another seminar...). And my position is now, if not exactly tenure track, on a rather more permanent basis that a postdoc position. Must be doing something right... of course, I expect Brexit will completely bugger the whole thing up, and then I will be sad. Until then I shall be enjoying Christmas.
Well done, squire! You're well on your way to fame, fortune, and Hollywood starlets.
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