Tuesday, 26 July 2005

Ugh

This weather is obscenely hot and miserable. All I want to do these days is curl up next to an air conditioning vent and sleep.

Getting in the way of that plan: I have to teach, pack, and apply for jobs. Yes, you read that right: even though I have a perfectly good job that I’m not starting for another month, I’m already applying for jobs* starting in the fall of 2006. Academe (particularly, but not exclusively, political science) is insane.

* I am proud of myself for showing restraint, dumping at least a dozen job listings I’m qualified for into the trash, and focusing on the jobs—almost all of which are at liberal arts colleges and other small-to-midsize private institutions—I actually want. We’ll see if my self-discipline holds up through November.

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[Permalink] 1. Russell Arben Fox wrote @ Tue, 26 Jul 2005, 3:05 pm CDT:

It really is terrible, isn’t it? It’s late July, I’m teaching two classes, it’s 103 degrees out, we’re moving to Illinois in three weeks, I have brand spanking new syllabi to prepare…and I have to get out applications. Sometimes I forget why on earth I put myself through this.

 
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