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 hope to be someday!), but it was great to re-enter the sociable world. Katherine was good, as usual, though she’s had pink cheeks and a clinginess the last two days that suggests she’s working on more teeth. So I put her in the backpack while cooking and cleaning and she was happy to be close (and I was happy to spare my shoulders!). She still seems okay with other people, so we enjoyed seeing her interact with other people. As usual, we cooked way too much food, and now we have lots of wonderful leftovers to carry us through a busy week.
Tomorrow afternoon Sydney and I both have mock job interviews in our departments. We’re expecting ludicrousness. I mean, we have to pretend that people we know are not people we know, and that they’re from some school without a name (giving us little with which to tailor our preparations)? And the questions may be awful: isn’t your research a bit outdated? how do you deal with inept students? in these hard economic times, what can you contribute to our college in addition to your teaching?
Yeah. Boatloads of fun. So we’re going to spend today trying to focus on the things we might have some control over (answers about our research and possible teaching we could do) and leave the other stuff to be discovered tomorrow.
Erin
Alan Schmierer