Real life gets suddenly busy
I have two job interviews in two states a couple of time zones apart, both coming up in the next two weeks. It’s amazing how news of this kind arrives in multiples. I’d be wondering why my (metaphorical) stock mysteriously went up overnight, except I know that the logical explanation is that I’ve been sending out job applications in bunches and getting replies in bunches. (I got two skinny envelopes in the mail within a few days of each other recently, too. But one of them I’d been expecting and the other was perhaps the nicest rejection letter I’ve ever received, so even though I’d really wanted the job, it didn’t sting as much as it could have.)
To-do list: finish prepping job talk for interview #1, plan presentation for interview #2, reflect on where I want to be in five years, and remember to take deep breaths.
(Addendum: Why oh why, during the season in which I most needed a lightweight interview suit, did the Mysterious Cabal of Fashion Trendsetters decree that the big thing for spring would be "Everybody in Seersucker"?)
Congratulations! Best of luck at the interviews.
You don’t like what you’re doing at UVA?
Oh, I do. Very much so. But I’m here as a visiting fellow rather than a permanent employee, so the plan has been “stay for a year and look for jobs elsewhere” from the get-go.