Remember those calls I was waiting for?  (Well, you may not since my blog was underground for a while, but now it's not.)  Well, they came.

 

As you can tell from the less-than-celebratory tone, they both carried bad news.  They took so long to call that I expected it.  South Alabama was a "No."  Winston-Salem was almost a "Yes."  See, apparently I was the top choice of the search committee, but the dean overrode their decision and hired someone else because I did not have a PhD in hand.  Sounds like a circus of sorts.

 

Either way, I'm going to be in Kent for another year.  I was actually somewhat stunned at the number of happy responses I got from friends and colleagues at Kent when I posted that tidbit on Facebook.  Combining that with basically a year to finish a dissertation that's maybe 80% done, publish a crapload of papers, and a whole year on the job market with interview experience, and I'm feeling pretty fucking good about things.

 

Rejection or not.