Well, right now, I'm still working on getting a few things sent out for publication this summer, and then getting all my applications put together (I so should have kept better track of what talks I gave when -- I spent a few hours a few weeks ago going through my file drawer finding the notes from each talk and hoping I'd put dates at the top of them), and then interviews, and then seeing who'll hire me. One of my friends who's graduating this year needs to stay in the DC area because of her husband's job (he's a doctor), and she's having a lot of trouble finding something with that much of a restriction.
Bar maid! Bring me stronger ale! And some plump, succulent babies to eat!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Hil R. - May 02, 2008 6:09:01 pm PDT #7503 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Connie Neil - May 02, 2008 6:10:14 pm PDT #7504 of 10001
brillig
I'm pretty much the poster girl for 'Go Foreign Parts! Choose Foreign Parts!'
Now if only some of those foreign parts would choose our Fay, bowm chika boom . . .
Hil R. - May 02, 2008 6:13:30 pm PDT #7505 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Actually, the university that has the most focus on the field I'm working in is in Waterloo, Ontario. I know pretty much nothing about Ontario. And it's a very research-focused department, and I'm pretty certain I want somewhere with more of a teaching focus.
Steph L. - May 02, 2008 6:20:52 pm PDT #7506 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And the little animated banner at the top of the page! I loved that. Lorne with his wee head!
And bloody-fist!Fred!!!
brenda m - May 02, 2008 6:36:38 pm PDT #7507 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Waterloo/Kitchener is not a bad place, really, and for sciences and mathematics Waterloo is pretty highly ranked. The research/teaching thing is another matter of course. It's about 50 miles from Toronto, not so bad.
§ ita § - May 02, 2008 6:37:58 pm PDT #7508 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And bloody-fist!Fred!!!
Meep! That was mine.
Hil, that university is really really highly rated. Waterloo, on the other hand...I basically had to pick between McGill and Waterloo for the same degree, and although there wasn't a doubt that Waterloo was better for the subject it just wasn't somewhere I could envision living.
eta: Heh. Crosspost with Brenda. I'd rate Toronto below Montreal in a heartbeat, but even so I wouldn't say Waterloo benefits from the perqs of Toronto enough to count in its favour.
brenda m - May 02, 2008 6:43:18 pm PDT #7509 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Well, no, it's no Montreal. Some good restaurants there, though.
sarameg - May 02, 2008 6:52:21 pm PDT #7510 of 10001
Hil, not exactly scientific, but of all the places my dad & brother visited, Botswana was a fav (I missed that week of the tour. It included, Botswana, S. Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe (under duress) and Mozambique.)
Laga - May 02, 2008 8:20:54 pm PDT #7511 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
All this time I thought a cannonball was just a solid metal ball.
DavidS - May 02, 2008 8:26:01 pm PDT #7512 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
All this time I thought a cannonball was just a solid metal ball.
Some of them were. Some were grape-shot. Some were incendeniary. Some exploded. It depended on what you were trying to do with it.