Since we're voting, I say tell the LL to change it to a motion sensor unit for economical and peace of mind reasons. Volunteer to buy it, they're only about $20, if he/she balks. I used to live in an apt with one of those ON ALL NIGHT ARCHAIC idiot lights right next to my window that cost me a lot of sleep !! The manager would not budge ! Did I tell you I'm an electrician ?? It finally NEVER came back on, go figure !!! Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z !!! Chryss

I don't know. i rescued mine a few days ago, pollinated it and it grows fine without a pot. i mist several times a day light to moderate and the roots dry quick. I have a new bud on the stem. but i think these guys are so hyped up on whatever blooming fertilizer they get at the bloom house or green house mixed with whatever experiment the florist decided to use to water it or fertilizer none of us know how the plants are gonna do or even live till we get to the five month mark. My is good for 90 days or my money back kind of thing. no knowing what plant hormone spray or dip is pushing that. so i figure if it pod's it'll live and put those fertilizers so deep in the roots to work. eventually growth will come or not and those months or seasons of get big quick growth will actually be of some use to the plant. I got a couple that seem to have less of that issue, but, they too are rescues. just have to wait and see. all that yellow on roots that large is lack of light etc. but phals will air eat from dried out roots, they are epiphyites yet most do not grow them that way killing them in pots but have nothing but bad advice telling you how to grow, they are totally ignorant of or about giving you, i think people mean well. rescue phal photo. i can assume the yellow root indicates some fungal resistance measure and yellowing it is done in efforts for the new owner to spray as norm and let what dies stay dry enough to feed the thing via air as it ages. just me and maybe i am nuts, lol, but while mine might die, at most trying to grow the thing a different way is fun. just a little support. but that moss wrap, i have no idea what's on the moss, can't give advice, ya know. there is a whole lot of science before orchids hit the shelves or nursery floor rooms. you have to grow it how it is suitable for you, but do your research. i don't know but trial and error is alright. some orchids can clone, don't worry, it might have double out there already, lol.

Congratulations on graduating! I found the same situation when I tried to apply for NICU position in some hospitals, every time someone with experience got hired over me. I could find something in a bigger city in VA (where a friend of mine works and who told me they hire new nurses all the time) but I didn't want to move. You may end up with a permanent position out of the temp position. When I moved back to NV after not working for a few years that's how I got my first long-term job. It was a temp position but they liked me and offered me a permanent position, and requested the temp agency release me early. They did.

Woodnymph, re Middlemarch: She [your friend] claims it is the greatest classic in the English language, and an early feminist work. Do you agree with my friend about "Middlemarch"? Your friend agrees with Virginia Woolf who famously said of George Eliot's magnum opus that it is "one of the few English books written for grown-up people." AS Byatt, another writer who admires Eliot, says "it's one of the greatest novels of all." It has undoubtedly been interpreted as an early feminist work -- at least it was later adopted by feminists who have chosen to see the feminist angle as Eliot's main intent. I don't necessarily agree with your friend or Woolf or Byatt or the legions of readers who subscribe to the feminist interpretation. While it seems to be true that Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) chafed under the strictures on women during the Victorian era, there is also good evidence that her political and religious stances were just as important to her in her writing. Mary, I've had problems with everything I've tried to read by Eliot. Her style is didactic. She also tended to get preachy, although she eventually disavowed formal religion. Many readers during the nineteenth century had a higher tolerance for slow development of story/plot, minutiae, and flowery phrasing than many readers have today -- I'm one of them. To me Middlemarch is a slow soap opera. Another problem I have with Eliot's style is it ignores the writing dictum of "show, don't tell." For instance, Eliot tells her readers (in third person) that her character Dorothea Brooke is a paragon -- over and over she reminds us readers, lest we forget -- but I don't think she shows us very often how or why Dorothea is an exemplar. Eliot makes similar pronouncements about many of her other characters. Middlemarch is long and it has so many characters that I have a hard time remembering most of them. I suppose it might be a worthy book to study -- taking notes, drawing up lineage charts, putting certain aspects of the development of 19th century British politics, cultural mores, and the Industrial Revolution in rough chronology. I didn't find, however, that Eliot's style (by itself) made these things clear enough. It didn't entertain me enough to help me find those subjects memorable, either. Of course, it's a matter of an individual reader's taste and mood. I don't particularly want to be told that a work is classic, when I want to make up my own mind about it.