I realize that I've been pretty quiet lately. A lot of that has been due to busyness--last week was absolutely crazy, what with finishing up classes, grading all my final comp projects, and then foolishly leaving Field Town for the Metropole a mere two days after I finished teaching. My lit students are submitting their papers to me via email (and I really need to get going on those...).
I also haven't been blogging much because I'm trying not to write about how the job market is going. I haven't been checking the wiki as obsessively as I was last year because I've just had too much other stuff on my mind, but I think that I can safely say that I'm doing OK on the market this time around--better than last year, anyway. I'm cautiously optimistic. But I've been avoiding blogging about it.
I'm breaking my vow of silence, however, to report my delight and astonishment at receiving a call this morning from a Very Good School. Probably one of the top 5 jobs in my field this year, in fact. (Not the #1 job of the year--medievalists, you know what I'm talking about--but I probably would have exploded if I'd heard from them.) This is the first time that a VGS has expressed interest in me. It's a little scary. But good.
And now, I grade. Thirty-two eight-to-ten-pagers to go (assuming they all reached the minimum requirement, that is!).
6 comments:
Hey, that's fabulous news on VGS! Go you.
BTW, your gift was in the mail as on Friday. :)
Cool! I look forward to picking it up when I return to Field Town. I'll be sending out my blog gifts early next week, I think.
Yay! It's near me, it's near me!!!!
Fingers crossed....
God speed!
this is all so fascinating (and, luckily, distant-seeming) from the non-med side; now I'm totally curious as to how meds would "rank" the various jobs.
Would #1 Big Fancy Job be over on my side of the world, for example?
Good luck on the everything!
Congrats on the optimistic job market report!
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