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Seven ways to figure out whether you're a junior prof:

1. You spend a lot of time avoiding committee meetings
2. You've hidden from a student by diving under the desk
3. Achieving a personal life is on your list of things To Do
4. You still haven't given up on the idea of Free Food
5. Your real expertise lies in exploring the local happy hour scene
6. You're always working on your "Book"
7. You spend more than 8 hours a day contemplating alternate career plans

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

On the Road Again...

Sometimes I wonder what it's like to be in a field where the "laboratory" is not many, many miles away from one's house. I'm returning to the suitcase life, though with an even more fascinating twist than when I was in grad school. I am literally to be homeless for a month, from when my renter arrives until my new lease in another city on the other coast begins. I am after suggestions for filling this fallow period. I have already contemplated the pros and cons of the following strategies:

Option 1: Pitching my pup tent (after buying one) in my office and investing in frozen microwave dinners.

Option 2: Going on massive tour of country, making sure to ask strangers to take my picture against every monument that might come up in a big lecture course.

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