Week 4 – Everything Will Totally Be Better by October 1

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Week 4 – Everything Will Totally Be Better by October 1

September 10, 2014 by Dr. Crazy

One grant application submitted – check.
Promotion materials approximately 75% complete and will certainly be done no later than Monday – check.
4 stacks of things to grade? Not touched, but soon!
Two more grant apps (one external, one internal) that must be done by Oct.1
Attempts at a personal life…. moving right along, in fits and starts. The good news is that it’s ok that I’m a workaholic. The annoying news is that the reason that this is ok is that my current One True Love is similarly a workaholic. Will we ever have time to see one another more than once a week? I am hopeful, but not optimistic.
A student who “hates, like HATES” in a way that is totally upsetting her, James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. All I can say is that I am kind of proud that she’s hating something even though it’s on a syllabus. Because, frankly, she is a student who twists herself into knots to love anything a prof has assigned.
My colleagues. MY COLLEAGUES. I can’t even.

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on September 11, 2014 at 12:45 am Fie Upon This Quiet Life

I envy your better-by-October deadline. I am thinking my reprieve will come in mid-December. God, fall sucks around here.
on September 11, 2014 at 7:55 am nicoleandmaggie

Good luck!

Portrait of the Artist is a lot easier to stomach if one realizes it belongs to the whiny white guy genre. I hope there’s a section of feminist theory devoted to scholarly mocking that genre.
on September 11, 2014 at 10:14 am Comradde PhysioProffe

Double workaholic relationships can work very well! The key is to establish some amount of weekly sacred together time with no access to work-related gizmos
on September 11, 2014 at 8:37 pm Dr. Crazy

Fie – Things are still nuts until December institutionally, but having this other deadline-driven stuff in addition to teaching 4 preps and SACS 5-yr review and shit in the department…. “better” is relative.

nicoleandmaggie – It does help that I hate Stephen Dedalus with a hate that is pure and true, and that I have told said student (and others who’ve expressed similar issues) that part of the problem is Stephen is the fucked up English major dude who talks over other people in class and who is arrogant and an asshole. I’ve ALSO told them that I now really appreciate the genius of the novel in SPITE of my ongoing hatred of Stephen, which partly has to do with the fact that I no longer actually have to deal on a peer level with THAT GUY.

CPP – So far, that’s how it’s going. And a bonus is that he appears to enjoy planning things, so I can totally offload that onto him 2/3 of the time. Not sure where things are heading, but so far, so good.
on September 13, 2014 at 3:00 pm J Liedl

I’m interested in all these internal grants for which you’re applying. We pretty much have one internal competition a year here. You have to get external applications vetted internally, of course, but what are some of the types of competitions your place has? All generic research? Travel grants? Teaching/professional development?

Good luck with the workaholic relationship. My partner isn’t but kindly sticks with me through the “OMG, I have to work ALL TERM LONG ALL THE TIME” in which I”m currently embroiled.
on September 14, 2014 at 5:41 pm Dr. Crazy

There are 3 things through the faculty senate benefits committee – one a “summer fellowship” sort of thing, one a materials grant, and one for sabbatical (ours are competitive and you are only eligible to apply every 7 years); then you can apply for funds through another office for international travel; then sometimes there are things you can apply for through your college for professional development. Historically people haven’t applied much for external stuff outside of the STEM disciplines. This is changing (whether people like it or not).