Monthly Archives: December 2009

And the practice interviews didn’t prove to be painful.  Nice encouragement from all of the interviewers.  I’m done and Sydney has one more practice round on Thursday. Now we’re just waiting for the phone to ring and the email to … Continue reading →

Ah, the list of potential interview questions is amusing.  Favorite question: (For background, two classes a semester is a standard teaching load at Cornell.  Three classes a term is not unusual.) “How will you handle research while teaching four courses … Continue reading →

Last night we had a number of philosophers over for dinner.  Given that this is the first group we’ve had over since Katherine was born we found ourselves a bit rusty (not quite the fluid cooking and hosting machine we … Continue reading →

This afternoon FedEx delivered a new stereo receiver to our door.  Sydney had bought our old one on ebay a long time ago and all was fine–except that it would suddenly stop playing and require a quick thump on the … Continue reading →

On Tuesday I received my students’ final papers.  On Tuesday afternoon I came down with what seems like my 10th cold of the semester.  As did Katherine.  Sigh.  On Thursday I handed back the final papers, graded, and managed dig … Continue reading →