Not much is happening in these few days between Christmas and New Years. For the most part things are going really well. The weather is fantastic. I have no outstanding deadlines. Finally, on the positive side of the ledger I am totally isolated from the rest of the world's problems.
For some reason the internet is only allowing me online in the hours between 1 am and 7 am in the morning. This is a little bit irritating. But, it turns out I am not missing a whole lot. I get on average one real e-mail a day. Increasingly, I am finding most other people's blogs to be rather uninteresting right now. Currently, the only ones I have been avidly following are those of fellow Arivacanese bloggers Chris, Sara and Kristin. I know Kristin lives in Estonia, but she is spiritually Arivacanese. Everybody in Arivaca came from somewhere else, but they were Arivacanese before they got here. Some like myself just did not know it.
Come 2006 I think I am going to have to come up with a new job search strategy. Obviously there is no hope of me getting an academic job in the US. I wasted a lot of time and effort this year on stupid applications that never had a chance of garnering an interview. American academics only hire clones of themselves. But, I will leave the hard thinking about creating income out of a Ph.D. in Oriental history to next year.
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awww... "..but she is spiritually Arivacanese!" So nice!
I'm not sure what qualities an Arivacanese must have but well, I'm smart, lazy and love WARMTH - will it be enough?
I think you should be more optimistic and not give up. You obviously know your stuff, and eventually someone in academia will recognize this.
Housediggity: Thanks for stopping by. Are there any jobs in Iraq for me?
Kit, you sound like you were born Arivacanese!
Chris, I'm starting to think that I really am! :P
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