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Excuse me if my capital letters aren't perfect. no links tonight either. amy's got me in a sort of headlock while she sleeps away so I'm typing with one hand. I haven't gotten to sleep yet.
i'm running for student director of the hazards specialty group of the aag. It's a two-year gig that i was nominated for, and i accepted the nomination. basically this is nothing more than a vita-padding and token position on the board, but i'll take it. i know the election is opposed so i will have to garner support among the 20 or so members that show up to the business meeting each year.
i've never been elected to anything and not from a lack of trying!
i know i can garner four votes pretty easily. i've got mine, schwartz's (my old advisor), tom's (my new advisor) and ute's (a prof who seems to love me). i'm hoping to e-mail burrell montz who was here a couple weeks ago and get one more. i think she owes me since i gave her new ideas for her research. five guaranteed votes in a small group where those running are likely fairly anonymous gives me at least a fighting shot, especially if there are more than two candidates. and burrell is pretty influential as well, which might help grab some others.
i don't want confidence, though. fuck confidence and security because those only lead to broken hearts.
I moved a bit... my right arm is now freeee!
I did officially enlist Tom as my main advisor today. I have to fill out a form to make it really official. My topic is really not narrowed yet, but it will be. I'm still thinking about some things and final topics will come.
I was kinda mean today on the third candidate's evaluation form. He was the first faculty candidate that we've had who could really speak English, but his content was very weak. It's too bad, too... because I think he was a really nice guy. I wrote something like what follows:
"I could see this guy as having a lot of potential if he was an incoming PhD student. In fact, I'd love to take a guy under my wing like this and help him realize his full potential. However, he's already got a PhD and he did two years of post-doc[toral] work. Thinking that so many years of school will make me like this... makes me want to quit school now and join the circus."
He was bad in content. How do you recover from that? I'm hoping they call a failed search and put in one of our PhD grads to hold the line for a year and do a new search. Probably won't happen, though.
I'm achy. I need a massage or a jacuzzi. I think stress is really settling in.
I do have just a few things to do between now and.... the end of the semester.
AAG's in about two weeks. Chalk me up to excited. A change of scene ALWAYS does good. I'll need it by then for sure.
Then three weeks to spring break. Hooray for March.
i'm running for student director of the hazards specialty group of the aag. It's a two-year gig that i was nominated for, and i accepted the nomination. basically this is nothing more than a vita-padding and token position on the board, but i'll take it. i know the election is opposed so i will have to garner support among the 20 or so members that show up to the business meeting each year.
i've never been elected to anything and not from a lack of trying!
i know i can garner four votes pretty easily. i've got mine, schwartz's (my old advisor), tom's (my new advisor) and ute's (a prof who seems to love me). i'm hoping to e-mail burrell montz who was here a couple weeks ago and get one more. i think she owes me since i gave her new ideas for her research. five guaranteed votes in a small group where those running are likely fairly anonymous gives me at least a fighting shot, especially if there are more than two candidates. and burrell is pretty influential as well, which might help grab some others.
i don't want confidence, though. fuck confidence and security because those only lead to broken hearts.
I moved a bit... my right arm is now freeee!
I did officially enlist Tom as my main advisor today. I have to fill out a form to make it really official. My topic is really not narrowed yet, but it will be. I'm still thinking about some things and final topics will come.
I was kinda mean today on the third candidate's evaluation form. He was the first faculty candidate that we've had who could really speak English, but his content was very weak. It's too bad, too... because I think he was a really nice guy. I wrote something like what follows:
"I could see this guy as having a lot of potential if he was an incoming PhD student. In fact, I'd love to take a guy under my wing like this and help him realize his full potential. However, he's already got a PhD and he did two years of post-doc[toral] work. Thinking that so many years of school will make me like this... makes me want to quit school now and join the circus."
He was bad in content. How do you recover from that? I'm hoping they call a failed search and put in one of our PhD grads to hold the line for a year and do a new search. Probably won't happen, though.
I'm achy. I need a massage or a jacuzzi. I think stress is really settling in.
I do have just a few things to do between now and.... the end of the semester.
AAG's in about two weeks. Chalk me up to excited. A change of scene ALWAYS does good. I'll need it by then for sure.
Then three weeks to spring break. Hooray for March.
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