Thanks, I might check it out. I'll probably have the time next winter, as my university didn't give me a new course to teach.
I'm a lecturer, that means I'm working under a short term contract, and that if any of the tenure-track professors feel like teaching one of my classes, I get bumped. Well, one of the professors, a new one, by the looks of it, will be teaching Introduction to petrology next winter, which means I'm out of a job.
I love to teach, but I hate being a lecturer: no job security whatsoever. I'm going to try to find something else, but I'm not optimistic.
If I am being honest, it turns out I do not actually mind the train to the city. I still resent the being obnoxiously underpaid thing, though.
There is a meeting set up for November 8th where the boss I like and four others (including me) will meet with an AVP who intends to hire the lot of us.
Plus one of the other reps I work with who is part of our escape plan has a job offer from a company that wants to talk to me too. So I have options.
The tv show for The Man in the High Castle didn't do much for me. It felt like A+ level Golden Age of Television production values and quality of concept kind of indifferently, soullessly executed. I fell asleep during every single episode I ever tried to watch.
It's like America is our kid and while we thought he was ready for Advanced Transgender Acceptance class, it turns out he's actually failing Black People Are Citizens class and remedial It's Not Okay to Murder Jewish People class.
He's just throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks. I wish the LSM would stop following every stupid thing he says. Mention it, fine. But don't BREAKING ALERT that shit. Stay focused on things that matter in reality-land.
I'm hearing that this is absolutely not a stunt. He intends to use his Court to muscle this through by exploiting the words "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" as a loophole, both because he wants this and because it's a test run for limitations he intends to place on free speech by "interpreting" the First Amendment via EO.
That sounds about right. There is so much to be concerned about right now. For the first time in my life, I feel like things could go very badly. A new Dark Age sort of badly.
Tilda and I have talked at length about a feeling she grew up with that I could not previously understand: the feeling that your country may not deserve your faith, that as invested in it and as hopeful for it as you try to be, it may not be rational to trust that it is forever on the path upward. Things not only can get worse; they are likely to do so soon, and to stay that way for some time.
The Atlantic put up an article alleging that the FBI has been asked to investigate claims that women have been offered money to fabricate sexual-harassment allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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I'm a lecturer, that means I'm working under a short term contract, and that if any of the tenure-track professors feel like teaching one of my classes, I get bumped. Well, one of the professors, a new one, by the looks of it, will be teaching Introduction to petrology next winter, which means I'm out of a job.
I love to teach, but I hate being a lecturer: no job security whatsoever. I'm going to try to find something else, but I'm not optimistic.
There is a meeting set up for November 8th where the boss I like and four others (including me) will meet with an AVP who intends to hire the lot of us.
Plus one of the other reps I work with who is part of our escape plan has a job offer from a company that wants to talk to me too. So I have options.
Jesus Christ.
I understand that feeling now.
Here.
Things are so shitty that I would not be surprised if it's true. O tempora, o mores !
I hope all the crappity kids have a fun time tonight
(deeeply inhaling) NEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's sexier in french, innit?
Trick-or-treating was fun though. Great weather and a ton of kids.