i can make a difference!: on vacation!

11 décembre 2005

on vacation!

don't think for a minute that because classes have finally ended, i'm on "vacation!" in fact, i work a lot better when i don't have to get out of my house or get dressed or look decent... hehe... so i've been working 9 hours yesterday and 9 hours today on my dissertation and entering data from schools and calculating cohen's kappas and doing fun things like that! i love to work this way, it feels like last summer again! i'm super efficient, i sleep better, i feel better, and i am terribly excited to have a few weeks off. well, actually, i'm super excited because i'll only teach one class next semester and that's all i'll have to do besides the dissertation! it'll go fast, now, i'll be done with this thing in no time!

job interview on tuesday like about half of the esl department... kinda weird that at least four (maybe more) of us are being interviewed by the same school on the same day! as one person said, we'll carpool for the campus visit :) i'm not too scared. i asked margie to ask me the questions she's asking the people she's interviewing for the position at purdue, and i felt much more comfortable than for the mock interview i had last week because i knew my weaknesses better.

other than that, i'm super mad because my wonderful homemade wifi system doesn't work anymore and i can't use the internet on one of my computers! i'm going to have to buy one of those expensive apple things and it's just not the right time. or i need a new neighbor with an unsecure wireless line... verizon was probably mad at me for messing with their connection...

ps. got questionnaires back from six schools as of today. am hoping for 10.

7 commentaires:

At 12/13/2005 10:56 AM, Anonyme a dit:: Not a surprise that they'd want to interview at least 5 of us. They probably identified Purdue as one of the top PhD programs in L2 studies and they want to see what they find at the top drawer programs.

Good luck with the interview.
At 12/13/2005 12:29 PM, lucie a dit:: haha, you too?? funny :) good luck to you too!
At 12/13/2005 1:38 PM, Anonyme a dit:: Thanks, but I don't think I did all that well. Their ad didn't really say what the job was about which made it hard to prepare.

How did yours go?
At 12/13/2005 10:59 PM, lucie a dit:: not sure... i was trying not to ramble and i think my answers ended up being too short. not sure i really answered their questions, also. oh well... i'm not too worried either way. we'll see. they were nice, i thought.
At 12/14/2005 9:43 AM, Scott a dit:: I think I didn't impress them and they didn't impress me. I think the low point was when the dept chair asked when I was going to defend my dissertation. I remained cool and told him I did that months ago and resisted the urge to tell him it would have been nice if he had read my file before the interview.
At 12/15/2005 2:03 AM, Anonyme a dit:: When I look back at my pre-MLA telephone interviews, I realize they were just warming-up exercises. They are supposed to help you test the water :-). Good luck with Washington DC interviews. If any of you drive there, you can stop by my place on your way back to Purdue. It is three hours drive from DC to State College.
At 12/15/2005 11:51 AM, lucie a dit:: xiaoye: unfortunately i won't be driving! otherwise i'd have loved to visit you. but if you're bored, you could come to DC at that time so we could meet. and i'm sure i'm not the only one going there, i know gigi is going too, for example.