Semester: Vanquished!
The editor took my revised book review with only minor stylistic changes! Woot! And I turned in the dance paper while I was up on campus this morning, so my semester is ooooooover!
...Except for grading. I'm pretty sure Coleridge's albatross was named "grading." But by tomorrow evening, once I blitz through the twelve or so papers I'll be picking up in the morning, I'll never have to grade another one!
Of course, now the agony of the job search starts. If anyone knows of editorial jobs (in any genre--nonfiction, fiction, poetry, whatever), or of university-related administrative-type positions, will you send them my way? I think I may also try to track down a couple freelancing jobs in the next couple months as I hunt for a full-time job, if only to have some writing samples that aren't academic in nature.
My other goal for the month is to turn the dance paper and part of my thesis into journal articles and send them off to my first-choice journals for each of them. Sadly, scholarly journals generally don't pay for articles, but I figure, since I'm looking for jobs in publishing, it can't hurt and might help to have some experience on the other side of the process.
...Except for grading. I'm pretty sure Coleridge's albatross was named "grading." But by tomorrow evening, once I blitz through the twelve or so papers I'll be picking up in the morning, I'll never have to grade another one!
Of course, now the agony of the job search starts. If anyone knows of editorial jobs (in any genre--nonfiction, fiction, poetry, whatever), or of university-related administrative-type positions, will you send them my way? I think I may also try to track down a couple freelancing jobs in the next couple months as I hunt for a full-time job, if only to have some writing samples that aren't academic in nature.
My other goal for the month is to turn the dance paper and part of my thesis into journal articles and send them off to my first-choice journals for each of them. Sadly, scholarly journals generally don't pay for articles, but I figure, since I'm looking for jobs in publishing, it can't hurt and might help to have some experience on the other side of the process.