Oh my God, I can't believe that Dora the Explorer is over already, which means I need to find something else for A to do while I make hamburger patties and cook them. Maybe she can come into the kitchen with me and play with play doh. Or, maybe the alphabet puzzle I got from the School of Education library will keep her busy. Nope, here she is, in the kitchen...oooh, what do you know, she's heading straight for the play doh. GREAT!! Go with it, girl!
In any case, I just wanted to say that I turned in my review. I actually turned in the last piece of it today, because I realized I hadn't included my abyssmally (spelling?) low teaching evaluations from the graduate class I had last semester. It was a Freudian omission. That was, without a doubt, the worst teaching experience I've had since my FIRST semester ever teaching. I got feedback on the research statement I turned in with my review--from one of the "star" assistant professors who just made tenure at the associate level. He basically equated me to a human snowball in hell in terms of my likelihood of getting reappointed or making tenure. AND, if I don't make all of my overly ambitious writing goals for the semester, and even if I DO, I may not have a solid case for tenure, because my carefully defined research area is too narrow and doesn't have an impact on the larger fields to which I belong. F#$%!!!!! Oh well. I have more important hamburgers to fry right now. I have to try to hold my life together in the face of what is undoubtedly the most emotionally and mentally challenging set of issues I've ever had to face.
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