My aunt and uncle are funny. We had sat down to dinner when the phone rang:

Uncle: "Hello? Oh. Oh. Hello, MIKE." *hands the phone to Aunt and proceeds to make a number of dire slashing motions across his throat while rolling his eyes and shaking his head ( Read more... )

This is turning out to be a really interesting experience. Eye-opening, in fact. It was strange to walk into an "interview" where basically I think they just wanted to make sure I had one head and wasn't foaming at the mouth, and then, instead of answering questions about my teaching, to sign all the paperwork. After being prepared for professional ( Read more... )

Something HAPPEN, dang it! I am the ball of restless energy that I always am before the semester starts, except this year...the semester is not starting for me. It's weird. I wonder whether the energy will dissipate as it usually does after Labor Day. Probably it will feel better after the job list comes out. I always do better mentally when I have ( Read more... )

Fairly recently I discovered my old Flashcom (product of '90s dotcom boom) mug, from when I used to work there. Ah, a time when money was lying around in heaps and piles, and everyone was a venture capitalist. Flashcom's defunct now, of course, like most of those companies. But I had an awful lot of fun there with my partner in crime, bean6180. Now that I' ( Read more... )

MLA Job Information List, 2008:

New England Job Search: 2 jobs I could theoretically apply for, 1 in VT, 1 in CT. In other words, we'd have to move if I ended up with either of them.

My 2 "dream schools" each posted jobs, but not in my field. Not even close. Both were in late 20th-century/contemporary fiction, which I do NOTHING with. <--this ( Read more... )