The Decision
Meetings on my side and theirs interfered with communications about the position today — phone tag, essentially — but I’m hoping that things will be finalized when we talk tomorrow afternoon. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that all goes well; it’s a place I like for lots of different reasons.
Other things are shaping up nicely as well, thanks to one colleague’s kindness and the writing skills of two other colleagues, and to top it all off, I was fortunate enough today to be able to turn in a glowing letter of recommendation for a former student. One of those days to make the past five months seem not quite so ambivalent and anxiety-ridden; one of those days to make “professionalization” seem not like such a vexed word.
(Don’t you dare jinx it for yourself, now, Mike.)
March 1st, 2006 at 8:38 am
All fingers crossed for you. Keep us posted!
March 1st, 2006 at 1:26 pm
I’m gonna fire off a guess and say that you will be working at…..drumroll please…. University of Phoenix online. HAhaha. Just kidding. Can’t wait to hear the final news. (no offense to University of Phoenix)
March 1st, 2006 at 8:22 pm
And so….
March 1st, 2006 at 9:52 pm
Digits firmly crossed!
March 1st, 2006 at 10:18 pm
I accepted the job with the small, highly collegial (but rather unusual) English department. It was bar none the best, most friendly and interesting interview I had at MLA, and it was a highly enjoyable campus visit, as well. It’s a teaching job, very small class sizes, and I’ll be helping to shape their first-year composition program as well as teaching some literature courses. The school? I don’t want to be explicit until everything’s confirmed and the paperwork done, so let’s just say: a gorgeous campus somewhere on the Hudson; nationally known, with students who have strong academic skills and—rather curiously—all dress head-to-toe in gray.
If you know my history, and know the old saying about taking the girl out of the country but not the country out of the girl, you’ll laugh.
March 1st, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Blast, but I don’t know your history! I’m just nosey!
March 1st, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Mike, is there a POINT to all of this? Is it on the WEST side of the Hudson?
March 1st, 2006 at 10:54 pm
I got it!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!
March 1st, 2006 at 11:39 pm
Yes—congratulations, indeed. Good goin’.
March 1st, 2006 at 11:44 pm
Also: the director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at what I assume is your As-Yet-Unnamed-Institution is an old friend from my WVU days; be sure to give her my warm regards.
March 2nd, 2006 at 11:12 am
Congrats!
March 2nd, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Visit my blog and see what your cats have been up to while your back was turned.
March 3rd, 2006 at 1:49 am
Congratulations, Mike! :O)
March 4th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
Thanks for the good thoughts, y’all. Joanna, between your blog and their romp this morning, my cats have been busy indeed: while I was taking a shower, I heard some thumping and cat-fussing that indicated they were having their usual chase-around-the-apartment wrestling and boxing (my favorite is when they both get up on their hind legs and bat at one another until Tink puts her paw on the top of Zeugma’s head and that’s the sign that it’s done), when all of a sudden Tink comes hurtling into the shower, gets soaked, scrambles, and bolts right back out. I’m thinking she probably regretted getting that caught up in the moment.
March 5th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Wow. Congrats, Mike!
Do you have to dresss head to toe gray?
March 5th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Nope. Plain old normal clothes are fine for instructors like me.
March 5th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
Wonderful news. Congratulations!
March 6th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Well, I have no idea what school you’re talking about, but I know you’ll say it at some point. If you’re happy, then congrats!
March 7th, 2006 at 10:47 am
Congratulations! Sounds like you didn’t jinx it at all.
March 17th, 2006 at 8:02 pm
I do hope this works out for you. A “Marxian Compositionist”? Well, Freedom is on the March and you can show them how to language it. Composition, Class, and Empire. Go for it.
March 21st, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Congrats!!!!! I’m so happy for you!