Great! [potentially offensive language deleted] Great.

Now someone points out that the same university (admittedly undergoing some restructuring) is advertising for a job at the same level even closer subjectwise to my own.

What am I supposed to do now? Ignore it? Apply for that too? Leave it on the assumption that what happened at a previous job interview a year or four back happens again? (They knew at the first interview that an almost identical job would be coming up in 6 months time and invited me back for that). (Circumstances had changed at home, however, and that proved impossible. It will remain an interesting 'what if').

As an aside, that was the interview - when the internet was really just becoming ubiquitous - where on a tour of the facilities I was ushered into a room of people I'd have been working with/over and one bright young thing said something along the lines of: "oh yes, we've been looking at you on the internet". My heart leapt into my mouth as thoughts of what on earth would they be finding?! raced through my head. Nothing particularly startling or embarrassing I'm sure - but still a scary moment. Does make you a little more reticent about how public you make yourself on the web.