While everything is still possibility and happiness

I have survived the gauntlet of interviews between Thanksgiving and Finals. Here is the semester's end recap.

Questions from a skype interview

He started out introducing everyone and saying we had 15-20 minutes, but in fact we spent almost a half an hour.

My current schedule

At Mom's request, but it helps me to keep track as well as well. I'll keep updating it as necessary until we finally get to Christmas.

Update on the job hunt

So here's the current stats:

• 27 jobs on my spreadsheet
• 5 are lecturer
• 22 are tenure track
• 23 applications finished
• 4 with deadlines that aren't until December or later
• 3 first interviews so far
• 1 invite to a campus interview, but I declined
• 2 waiting to hear about whether I passed that step
• 2 are schools that I had campus interviews with last year
• 6 are within about 3 hours of Albany

A bit of self indulgence

You can skip this one if you want, but Louis was making me particularly happy today.

The color of the sky

January 10, 2004 I did a little experiment: a picture of the sky once an hour all day. All the night shots I've been doing lately reminded me of it.

Yarmouth Nature Trails

I managed three job applications today.* And while some were in locations that could be cool to live, they would all take me away from Cape Cod. So I did what I prefer to do when that "I don't want to leave" mood strikes. I grabbed the dog and the camera and I went for a walk. And it was perfect fall weather. We went to the nature trails maintained by the Yarmouth Historical Society. It's the one that starts behind the Yarmouth post office on 6A. I'm sure I've been there before, but not recently enough to have remembered it.

Happy Louis having a late afternoon run.