Archive for June, 2008

Last Group Meeting

So, I have a job. Another temporary job, yes, but it’s a RealJob, or at least a big step in that direction. (Not guaranteed to be free of dead ends.) And it’s definitely mine; mailed off the acceptance letter (to the president! I wonder if he’ll actually read it?) and the polite-but-friendly [...]

The fun of waiting…

for the phone to ring. Or the email to arrive.
Today’s the day when “Hobart U” is making its decision on who gets the job.

To the Atheist

This was gonna be the start of a big long rant in which I marvel at how intolerant progressives can be. I would’ve particularly focused on my amazement at the fact that so many atheists are aggressively intolerant of the sincere religious beliefs of others — for instance,
“I watched my father-in-law die this weekend. [...]

Teaching is hard!

… and I haven’t even started doing it yet.
The phone interviews with “Hobart U” continue to go well, so I’ve allowed myself to anticipate the final result a little bit. Classes start at the end of August, I need to start down there at the start of August, so it really seems pretty reasonable [...]

Why “video blog entries” are evil

There’s a disturbing trend at a few of the sites I follow, or used to follow: Video posts. Regular entries that would’ve lasted for a page or two of text get replaced with a wonderful multimedia version - visual effects, animation, pictures, with voiceover commentary by the video creator. Or, someone used [...]

Kill them

More from the Chronicle job-hunt forum, which I’m starting to like more and more –
“I have shared this before but here is what I have told my mother and mother-in-law:
“I teach XX history. That is what my specialty is and that is the only thing I am going to get hired to do. Each college [...]

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