voncookie | November 30, 2008
I have a crummy head cold. Sux. The best way to deal with a head cold? (Aside from DayQuil.): WORK. What else is there to do? I’m going to be lying in bed anyway, I may as well just prop myself up with my lap desk and take a bunch of notes for Chs 4 [...]
voncookie | November 28, 2008
So I end the day the way I started it–at the Little French Cafe on the Corner, this time sipping tea, watching the nightlife drone past me outside. I’ve got Debussy playing on iTunes, I’m in my Phillies World Series sweatshirt, I look like hell, but I finally feel better about today, now that I’m [...]
voncookie | November 28, 2008
I went to Barnes & Noble this morning for an Eggnog Latte (see previous entry about boycotting the Samba King) and I pulled into the parking lot, expecting for it to be jam packed even though it was only 9:30… no such animal. It was virtually deserted, that parking lot, and I thought, wow, some [...]
voncookie | November 28, 2008
I’ve made a switch. After one too many “vonCookie, trabajas demasiado, descánsate un poco, relájate”-s from the Samba King, I’ve decided that I will no longer be hanging out at the traditional coffeehouse. I don’t need to be nagged about working too hard, told that I need to take a break, relax. No. What I [...]
voncookie | November 27, 2008
They have indeed begun– I’m watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade right now, and it’s completely cracking me up with their random singing starts. I mean, Rick Astley??!?! Wait… …RICK ASTLEY!!!! I absolutely hated Rick Astley when I was in 8th grade. His song “Never Gonna Give You Up”, I always misheard, and consequently sang [...]
voncookie | November 26, 2008
Here’s a lovely new twist to the game of Being on The Market: job cancellation notices. Yes, thanks to this lovely “downturn” in the economy, many state goverments are cutting their education budgets, resulting in the cancellation of positions that I’ve already applied for. Hoorah, isn’t that sumpin’? Well, at least the private schools are [...]
voncookie | November 24, 2008
This past August I had a scare where I thought the best thing for me to do to preserve both my finances and my sanity was to take a job at a university in South Dakota, where I would ostensibly both teach and finish my dissertation, all while earning a living wage. Needless to say [...]
voncookie | November 23, 2008
I’m finally getting back to my dissertation, doing some research and another reorg, just for the last two chapters, as I try to get my head around them. It’s some difficult work. I’ve been at the drafting table that I bought last year to deal with the HUGE folios for one of the literary magazines [...]
voncookie | November 23, 2008
I have to graduate this year. I simply have to graduate this year while we still have The Axe at Big U. We’ve had it every year that I’ve been here, except for one, when Big Snooty U stole it from us. Bastards in Red and White that they are. But we got it back [...]
voncookie | November 22, 2008
Now that the stampede for job applications is nearly over… nearly… I’m trying to figure out what to do with my time. Away with the cover letters, away with Interfolio… for now. So what shall I do? I know, I’ll do something that I haven’t done for *months*– WORK ON MY DISSERTATION. Yes, I shall [...]
voncookie | November 20, 2008
I woke up this morning way-early with a semi-nightmare about the Job Market, which truly is obsessing me right now, much to the chagrin of my friends and family, I think, since I won’t shut up about it. I had this dream that I took a job at a small liberal arts college that had [...]
voncookie | November 19, 2008
I was wondering when it would come, which would be the day when I could say I’d landed my first job interview. Apparently, today is that day. There is woo! And hoo! *So* excited that I can’t even manage a full post!!!!
voncookie | November 17, 2008
I apologize for not having posted an immediate follow-up to my presentation on Saturday, which went fabulously in spite of having a very small audience. (They put my Chemistry Session up against a Chaos Theory Session, and we all know that Chaos always wins.) I’ve made a few nice contacts here and in general, feel [...]
voncookie | November 15, 2008
24-hour Room Service, awwwww yeah. Made for the chronic insomniac who cannot sleep to save her life. 24-hour Room Service bringing me brownies and Haagen-Dasz ice cream at 4 a.m., God Bless You, delivery dude. Little coffee pot chugging away, reminding me that my presentation is in 1 – 2- 3 – 4 hours, and [...]
voncookie | November 14, 2008
Wow. That roller coaster was fun. So much fun, in fact, that I NEVER WANT TO DO IT AGAIN. What roller coaster, you ask? Well, the one that has me up at 1:30 a.m. rewriting a presentation that I have to give at precisely 8:30 this morning. Yes, this morning. I came to the conference [...]
