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Town without Pity1 week ago
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Halloween Data Cleaning5 weeks ago
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Reap what you sow7 years ago
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I'm Bored9 years ago
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Ten Years Later...9 years ago
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Happy May Day!10 years ago
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Housekeeping11 years ago
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Moving Day12 years ago
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Quick Update: Let’s Get It Started!13 years ago
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An update from the States...13 years ago
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I am here...sorta13 years ago
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This blog has hit the road. . .13 years ago
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Dr. Crazy's Moved House14 years ago
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Refund the DC OSP14 years ago
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Science fiction double-feature15 years ago
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bullets of literature16 years ago
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Gah. Sorry. I'll be joining you next year, if it's any consolation...
April 4, 2008 at 6:12 PMSorry, Dr. C. I hope drowning your sorrows in BSG and liquor is temporarily effective.
April 4, 2008 at 6:28 PM:(
April 4, 2008 at 10:29 PMI know how you feel!
Thanks for all the sympathy. BSG (no liquor for me tonight, though) did help a bit.
April 4, 2008 at 11:25 PMI sort of felt it was doomed when my mother said "I've been praying for your job prospects." An awful feeling to have to someone's good sentiments, I suppose, but there it is.
Maggie, you're going on the market next year?
Man, that sucks. You seem to be pretty philosophical about it all, but don't count liquor out in the coming days, as needed :)
April 5, 2008 at 12:36 AMIck. Sorry. That sucks. Next year!
April 5, 2008 at 10:41 AMIt's a little - but only a little - easier to be philosophical about it, knowing the odds on these things.
April 5, 2008 at 4:23 PMEventually I'll try to focus on having made two campus interviews out of the limited applications this year, and maybe I'll remember the schools were pretty impressive ones. But I don't think that'll ever hold much water since it feels a bit like having your mom reassure you that you're smart.
For now, the next big thing will be to try and figure out how to make another year here livable and (maybe) more marketable.
So: next year!
Yup. Probably for the next 3 years, actually (because I am going to be wicked selective about where I apply, etc.) And, like you, I am contemplating leaving academia. For many of the same reasons you are.
April 7, 2008 at 5:39 PMSo, you see why I read your blog with such rapt attention :)
That shocks me - I always feel like you're living the dream. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you, though. I'm shocked though - I thought everyone read my blog because of my muscular blog physique.
April 7, 2008 at 5:46 PMAh, well.
Well, of course your physique is part of the draw.
April 7, 2008 at 7:13 PM"Living the dream" --- hahahahahahaha!
My discontent is mainly geographical. But place is important enough to me that it makes my life pretty un-dreamlike...
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