04th Feb 2009
i’ve got the big “t” t-shirt on
Until I go up for tenure in September, I am wearing a big sign or t-shirt that might as well say “tenure undecided” on it. In today’s department meeting, as I am the only one going up next year, I think everyone kept looking at me when we talked about tenure. Then again, I probably imagined that. Erik, next to me, probably always thinks we look at him when we talk about men — do we talk about men? That might be another question. All the way around, tenure is very much on my mind and I also wonder how I managed to get to go up in such a stellar economic climate. Maybe it’s the flu talking (yes, I have the flu, for the first time in years and there is no way I would be at work right now if it was anything less than a campus-wide series of departmental strategic planning initiative meetings made mandatory by the provost and my current position = toeing the line very closely) but everything feels very very important. Too important.
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