My Own Thoughts

I received a No email and thought it was for a particular position. However, now that I have looked at it again, it seems that I received a no for the position I just phone interviewed for on Monday. So they did phone interviews and then hired someone? Seems like that must have been an [...]

I sent six proposals to MLA because I really wanted to get something there. I’ve been worried, though, that I would get too many yes answers. (You are allowed to present two.) So far I have gotten three no’s and haven’t heard from the other three. Despite the fact that I was all worried about [...]

Cleveland.com has the story of Robert Jr and Sr. The letter sat on the dresser for four years. Robert Gilbert never opened it. He only touched the envelope when he needed to dust around it. He wanted to give it back to his son unopened. Every time his Marine son was deployed, his son would [...]

by a postliberal, Well-Meaning Opposition. Here’s the sticking point: there seems an inability to back all the way down the road and re-look at the question Is this the right thing to do? Failing that, they are locked endlessly in the impression that ours is a moral failing, that must be addressed on moral grounds. [...]

I am dragging on teaching. I am overwhelmed with grading, not because I have more than usual, but because even grading for an hour seems a monumental task and I need to grade. I don’t want to go to class, not because I don’t want to teach, but because I don’t want any more papers [...]

Turns out, the origin is probably from Mississippi: PJM posted about it after his Sharecropper’s Daughter picture.

The health care bill has passed. My government now owns the auto industry, banking, and health care. One giant step at a time into socialism. Sorrow. Pain. Tears. Weeping. Despair sits just outside, though. Despite the immediate tax additions, the health care aspect won’t go into effect until 2014. There is still a little time [...]

“We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.” — Abraham Lincoln

Can of Whoop Ass from Miss Cellania via Happy Catholic

I am praying about health care. I am praying that today is not the day my country goes officially socialist. God, please, bless the United States.

You and I are here to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don’t know. W.H. Auden from Happy Catholic

The Common Room has a post that is exceptional: However, the female response to stress is completely different, and prompts instead a decreased heart rate and blood flow to the brain, dizziness, nausea — all of it triggering a desire to hug and be hugged, he said.

One: Fix the wooden floors. $ New carpet on the stairs at least, probably upstairs entirely. $$$ Fix bathroom ceiling. $ Replace kitchen and bathroom paper. $$ Two: Get a cover for the hot tub. Fix the fences. Replant the front yard. (I lost most of my pretty plants to the cold.) Paint the media [...]

I received two calls today. One is for a phone interview. One is for a follow-up face-to-face interview. I guess I passed the phone interview. I also found another position at the high end of my preferences and applied to that. They were supposed to start reviewing candidates today, so I am a bit behind [...]

This is what is required at my alma mater. The schools I work at now have very different requirements. I am just wondering how often the criteria is less clear cut than it looks.

Can you tell which person was conceived by rape? No. Not really.

JP Morgan bailed out the US in a situation eerily reminiscent to the one we are in today.

I have an interview today with a sister college of one I teach at. The drive is long, but the potential for growth is huge. I am looking forward to the interview and hope I do well.

As part of a job application I have to write a philosophy statement of faith and learning. Goofing off, I wrote this: Education without faith is dead. For degrees will pass, classes will cease, and intellectual stimulation is not the be-all and end-all of life. Faith calls us to an eternal experience that supersedes all [...]

This is particularly relevant to me. R and I asked God for an answer as to whether we should apply for this job that is at my alma mater. I had a long conversation in my head with God in which he said no. However, in the past, long conversations with God have primarily been [...]