Not the news I was hoping for

I've actually known this for more than a week, but I've been keeping myself distracted from it. The final count was applications 27, first interviews 6, campus interviews 5, offers 0.

I have a plan B. They have offered me 4 classes at Fitchburg for the fall semester. 2 sections of the class I taught this semester. So that's good because the prep work is already done. Also I enjoyed the class. I think I'm going to be a better writer personally by way of teaching writing. I can constantly remind myself of all the things I'm always reminding them of. Then there's an Avid editing class. That's good because I've taught plenty of editing, but never taught Avid so that will be appealing to a certain type of school when I get around to doing applications next year. And then there's Introductory Production which is, in most fundamental ways, very similar to classes I've taught in the past. But also will be very different because they're mostly shooting film. So again, it's something I've done but never taught, and also a little bit stuff I'm going to have to learn. I've never edited film, but boy am I looking forward to learning it this summer so I can teach it this fall. I'll probably buy myself a few rolls of 16mm film and borrow their camera over the summer so I can practice shooting and editing. That will be fun.

Ghost Tours has been getting screenings. And certainly there are worse things then spending a summer on Cape Cod writing and working on films.

Here, have some more gratuitous sun and moon photos.

Gratuitous Sunsets

Tonight's sunset is brought to you by Grey's Boardwalk in Yarmouth.

A job ad came across my desk today that had some interesting things about it and some things making it a bad fit. I floated it to Karen for an opinion. Her response: Are you desperate? So I spent a lot of time today thinking about that. I mean really, these days, my mood swings from desperate to hopeful 10 times a day. But the weather was good today and I'm living in a beautiful place and I thought, if I have to be desperate I can at least savor the good things I have at the moment.

Spring = Waiting

It's been more than a month since I updated. I can tell you that at first that was because I was crazy busy - March was nuts - and then because I keep thinking I'll have News any minute now. I do not have news. At this point I don't know when I'll have news. I thought I'd recap the job hunt a bit. See if I can figure out any lessons learned in case I have to do it again or so I can give others advice.

I also have some photos at the end because the job hunt is not a happy place, but the beach certainly is.

Sunset in winter

I went up to Cold Storage Beach for a very lovely sunset last night. I wish I had Louis with me, but such is my life these days.

Snow and more snow

I was supposed to have a campus interview on Monday. My flights Sunday got canceled for weather. We rescheduled for Friday. My flights today got canceled for weather. At least I knew about it yesterday so I could come home. We've rescheduled again for after spring break. I decided to make the snow a feature not a bug in my life. I went out with my camera.

And another one

Today was a school in Texas. Considering I got in a major car crash two days ago due to the 8 foot high snow banks making it impossible to see, Texas sounds kind of nice. It was a half an hour phone interview. Apart from the fact that I don't have to dress for it the phone interview is not my preference. Skype interviews you can sort of make eye contact, you can see how they're reacting. And they can see you. I think phone interviews are worse for rambling answers. You have to just stop talking and trust that they will understand that was the end of your answer. If they can see you you've got that "I am done" look rather than the "I'm thinking about it" look.

Another day another interview

I feel like I'm getting good at this, but I do wonder how practiced one wants to become. We'll see if I can go 3 for 3 on turning first interviews into campus visits. I felt like it went well enough, but there's too much depending on things outside of my control to really know. I would like it too anyway. I didn't finish it up thinking, ugh I don't think I'd fit in there.