Deadline Extension

[ansketil_rose]

I am extending the deadline for the song challenge to the 10th of April. A lot has happened in the past week and I think I set the deadline too soon for most of you. You can, of course, post your entries before the deadline if you've already finished.

Thanks.

Comments

Thanks much!

[veronicaprof]

Thank you! And I'm really not complaining, just busier than I thought I'd be.

But that's okay, because, ahem, this is part of a plan to take over the History Department soon. And, ahem, this kind of hard work also has resulted in some massive raises, and I'd like to have more authority in the future for key committees and Senate, etc.

Ideas are being put down, but just not fiction right now, and I'm trying to push in a bunch of proposals for articles being accepted for publication, etc. in journals, and a book series and so forth, because our end of year report is due in May, and that's when we report on our progress over the summer to an increasingly merit-based administration. Authority and raises are increasingly tied to such things, and I was fortunate enough to get a humongous (for our little school, anyway) raise last year, and hope to replicate the experience to keep paying off the loans and such and be able to buy a nice old, large, nook-and-cranny-filled house.

Nothing comes without a price, and no choice comes without sacrificing another one, alas.

So, your mom is right, about some of us. But mainly in English, where writing literature, poetry, etc. is seen as scholarship. :) Or, for me, perhaps later in the career when I'm not quite so energetic or ambitious.

I don't mean at all to toot my horn, but I do know that this forum is a perfectly appropriate place to talk about ambitions and such. :) And I don't want you to pity me too much. When I really am feeling sorry for myself, though, I'll be sure to let everyone know, so that I can get lots of virtual hugs!!