Well, I am apparently taking my sweet time getting back into the groove of blogging.
Lots of things are going on here, despite my silence. Among the myriad papers and grants I am writing, I am also doing experiments. This all means that I work nearly all the time in some capacity or another. I can't complain too much, though. This is the time where I prove that I can hack the academy. Sink or swim. Right now I'm treading water and looking for dry land on the horizon, if you'll pardon the bad metaphor. To extend it further: this is the period where I am actually in the water, but still wearing water wings, which are beginning to chafe a bit. I'm trying to get my own money and a tenure-track job, but that'll take 1) more and better pubs, 2) money would help, and 3) being at the right place in my career (and geographically) at the right time. All I can do until those planets all align is wait. And work even harder.
Science! Ain't it grand?
2 comments:
Glad you are back in the blog world. If you are in the "water wing" stage, that must mean I am in the "putting my toe in the shallow end and scared of all the fat people on rafts way out there in the deep end cause they are laughing at me cause I am neither fat nor on a raft, and hey, who is that guy wearing water wings almost to the fat people on rafts, its Joe, and he is very far ahead of me"... stage. By the way, raft = tenure.
^ Thank you for employing an extended metaphor which makes mine look tasteful. :-)
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