Acceptance...
This came in email form:
Dear Happy,Yay! I defend tomorrow. It's been a hell of a week. Yay! I did a little dance, a little academic's dance!
I have recommended to the Dean that you be offered a Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2008-09 academic year.
You will be the full-time Director of the English Computer Lab, and will also teach one course each semester. The stipend will be [enough for about 5 full tanks of gas!] plus benefits. Please meet with me to discuss your teaching assignment for the year, and meet with [Dr. Squiggy Funtimes, Freshman Writing Program Head] to discuss your duties as Director of the Computer Lab. Those duties will require your presence in the Comp Lab, supervision of staff, and assistance to instructors using the lab. We also ask that you design and conduct workshops to help instructors make better use of the Comp Lab in their teaching.
Yeardly [the Administrative Assistant] will prepare a Memorandum of Agreement for you and me to sign so that we can enter your name in the schedule for the fall semester.
Sincerely,
Dudley ManischewitzChair, Department of English
HJ
Seed Newsvine
18 comments:
lurker says yay!
Congratulations on the offer. I'm sure everyone that reads here has been hoping for your success, and if any one of us ran a search committee for an English department your search would have been much shorter.
I hope this offer is exactly what you want and need.
Thanks very much.
It's really a good transitional position, I think. I've been a competitive candidate in teaching writing and rhetoric. Unlike in almost every other area of English, the number of jobs in rhet/comp comparatively high. The administrative emphasis of the job gives me cred in both the technology of teaching writing and writing program administration. Long-term (and I am a patient guy) I want to teach American literature. Based on this past year's search, early American lit (before 1865) is popular and in demand. I am going to retool slightly and teach at least one class that incorporates some early texts. (In keeping with the conspiracy section of my skepticism class, I think that I will do a class on American paranoia, say, from "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God" to the X-files...fun stuff.) So, this is a strategically opportune appointment. Plus, I don't have to move!
HJ
Congratulations!
Yay! Congratulations!
Way to go! All congratulations and praises!
You say you don't have to move, eh? Is this a job at your current university, or a different but nearby one?
'bout time too!
Well done, and good luck!
Congrats, Bing! I am so happy for you!
I hope this doesn't mean an end to rejection letter posts. If you aren't careful you'l turn into one of those people who think they have some purpose to their life other than entertaining me.
Seriously though, congratulations.
Oh, the rejection thing is seasonal, like baseball. There will doubtlessly be more rejection letters, though I really expect this year's batch to peter out during this next month.
But there will doubtlessly be more rejection letters coming--I don't just get rejected for jobs, but for publications, conference panels, and dates (yeah, the form letter for getting rejected for a date is a bitch). Indeed, a member of my department says that she has two extraordinary rejection letters that I think I will share with you, once she forwards them to me.
HJ
Congrats on the post doc. Glad something finally came of the search. (Seventy applications? The mind reels!) I'll kind of miss the rejection letters, though. Your zen-like calmness in the face of rejection always helped take the sting out of the ones I've been getting. (It's another year on the adjunct express for me.)
Good luck on the defense tomorrow (today). After doing mine last year I can only liken it to a fraternity hazing. If they had demanded I get up on the table, hop on one leg while simultaneously pouring chocolate syrup over my head and singing the school song, I would not have been surprised.
They usually don't let you defend unless they think you're ready. They just want to have some fun with you, making you do "the dance" before welcoming you into the club.
I look forward to your next post when you are finally able to write "HJ, PhD."
Dear Bing:
What's acceptance like? Have never achieved such meself.
Sincerely,
Unapologetic Liberal Asshole Who Lives Amongst a Bunch of Self-Deified Creationists
Congrats man. Keep up the good work both professionally and with this blog.
tonight,10:00pm, ch.4 news. Sylvia Browne smackdown! Oh,yeah.
I'm so jazzed. Could this get any better?!?
HJ, Ph.D.
HJ, PhD,
Can it get any better?
Short answer, no. This is it. You have reached the acme and have only the trip down to look forward to. How fast the descent, and what you see along the way, are, of course, up to you.
That being said, welcome to the club.
Congrats, Happy - Good to see the educated riffraff finally getting their comeuppance.
;>)
Congrats!
Post a Comment