English Department Meeting

Today was the first big English meeting at UD.

It was pretty good. I seem to be on par with the overall ideology that I witnessed as far as pedagogy. I met a couple of people in the workshop we did that seemed nice. Hopefully I will meet some more people as the semester starts up.

I volunteered some of my spare time to Dr. Cucciare (the directer of comp and the woman that interviewed me) because I want to both get involved in UD's English Dept and make myself invaluable. This may help in the PhD App process as well, but the main goal is to just force my foot in the door and make sure that it stays there until I can grab a broom, or crowbar, or jaws-of-life to get that door wider, heh.

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Christine (Dr. Cucciare) said she would put me in contact with people that may be able to help with getting some more work set up for next semester, so that is a big plus on the monetary front.

Master Bedroom/Bathroom closet has some new holes in it; but on-purpose holes. So that is good.

The dryer/blowers need to go for a few days. They will pick them up on Wednesday.

So other than the whole not-getting-paid-for-another-over-two-weeks aspect, things are looking up. I am very much looking forward to getting back to teaching. The world feels much easier to handle inside of an English classroom (and that's how I know I'm in the right profession).