Some news: I found out last week that my last, best chance for a tenure-track job this year has evaporated. I cannot renew my contract at my current institution, and I’ve decided not to apply to visiting positions. This is quite likely my last year as a professor.
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I hope I can find a career important to me as this one has been. I might go back into publishing and move somewhere interesting for the right job; I might just move back to LA and see what kind of life I can make for myself there, with my dog Millie and avocados.
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I am happy to feel some sense of agency over my life again; I cry every time I think that this might be my last time teaching poetry to rooms of beautiful young people.
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When I wrote this essay this time last year, it felt like the beginning of the end, and now I see that it was.https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/real-toads-international-cryptozoology-museum/ …
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This was the bit in your thread when I got a bit teary—and we’ve never met IRL. I’m going to keep reading but I just wanted to say: you are the most beautiful writer
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I know how it feels to have a teaching job mean everything to you. There’s nothing wrong with that. Your essay is really great.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I am sorry. I don’t know you, but you are me in 2012. I teach high school now and have many wonderful young people in my classroom in a great school. It’s a tougher job in a lot of ways but more rewarding. Just food for thought. Best of luck with your transition.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I so sorry. It is maddening and depressing that this is the state of things.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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thank you for the kind words
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