I have spent a long couple of days preparing a teaching application, and I just finished. Who knew you needed something like 5000 words and almost a hundred pages of attached syllabi, student evaluations, and the like to fill out a simple application? And of course, I’m doing it all on Sydney’s computer while we get used to switching over, so there was occasional muttering from me as some formatting thing went haywire and I longed for what I was used to. Not to mention the fact that I have gotten used to changing seats with my laptop whenever my back got tired–no longer! But I’m hoping Sydney will find my little laptop useful in England. And here’s hoping he doesn’t kill it off by downloading huge pdfs of old books he’s scanned!
Meanwhile, Sydney has gotten in the paper-moving mode. Because he’ll be gone for quite some time, because I’ll be on his side of the desk and complaining bitterly about having no place to work amongst his files, and because the whole house is in an uproar anyway with our travel plans underway, Sydney’s filing away his papers. One of the stacks is up to my knee, if that’s any indication of what we’re looking at here. And that’s with me surreptitiously putting away blank index cards and other ordinary paraphernalia on the desk every chance I get. But I can see a bit of desk on his side of things again, and that makes me deliriously happy. Hey, I never said we were normal, but I thought the different ways in which we were not normal would entertain you.
Erin
Alan Schmierer