Whew!
Final grades are submitted, and the prof is posting them. My (teaching) work is done (for the term)! I am hoping I can be sufficiently productive that I do not get put on a teaching assignment (as punishment/for continued stipend) before I finish my degree. Then I *want* to teach.
I was talking with a coworker who just got a job with a small liberal arts college, and I am more and more convinced that is the type of faculty I want to be on. He's encouraged me to keep my options open as far as exact type of school and region. Apparently the mainline Christian college he's just accepted a position at is amazing and there were "people like me". I'm not sure quite whether he meant atheist, queer, or weird. :p On further examination, he probably meant queer, because faculty are required to submit a "statement of faith". I'm thinking I may keep my search open to include Christian colleges, so long as they a) have strong science programs and b) don't require faith or chapel attendance of me. Most of my exposure to Christian colleges has been extreme right Bible Colleges, which rather creep me out. We'll see.
I've been finally playing Chrono Trigger again, and making my way through slowly but surely. For those of you playing at home, I have the Epoch now and am on my way up Death Peak. I think I've made a fair bit of progress in the last week on this front.
Going to have some fun this weeekend, with parents visiting tomorrow. Hopefully I will see Star Trek; I hear it is amazing.
I was talking with a coworker who just got a job with a small liberal arts college, and I am more and more convinced that is the type of faculty I want to be on. He's encouraged me to keep my options open as far as exact type of school and region. Apparently the mainline Christian college he's just accepted a position at is amazing and there were "people like me". I'm not sure quite whether he meant atheist, queer, or weird. :p On further examination, he probably meant queer, because faculty are required to submit a "statement of faith". I'm thinking I may keep my search open to include Christian colleges, so long as they a) have strong science programs and b) don't require faith or chapel attendance of me. Most of my exposure to Christian colleges has been extreme right Bible Colleges, which rather creep me out. We'll see.
I've been finally playing Chrono Trigger again, and making my way through slowly but surely. For those of you playing at home, I have the Epoch now and am on my way up Death Peak. I think I've made a fair bit of progress in the last week on this front.
Going to have some fun this weeekend, with parents visiting tomorrow. Hopefully I will see Star Trek; I hear it is amazing.