It's strategic, it only looks lazy.

So it turns out that there's a very palpable benefit to taking a leisurely route through graduate school. In the 6-9 months that have elapsed since the more punctual members of my cohort graduated, they've been out and about getting jobs in what turns out to be a teeny-tiny community of techy librarians.

Good for them. I'm a little jealous of their income and expository-paper-free lives, but not too much.

As it turns out, the jobs that they now have are turning out to be Codd's own social network for little old me. I am connected! I am plugged in! I have connections!

The downside is that they're all intimately familiar with my bad attitude and mediocre abilities. But when an undemanding job comes up, I'm all over it.