I like the idea of luxury, in theory, but I'm not so good at the "take a break" part of it. Right now I'm forcing myself to sit down and waste time for ten minutes before I start vacuuming the floors and cleaning the catpans. Oh, the glamorous life of a poet and writing program director.This week my department voted in favor of my (early) tenure. That hit me more than a lot of milestones in recent memory, mostly because I'm happy to be doing something well. Administration is frustrating and often thankless. My tenure application is a big box filled with journals and binders. I'm ready to step up now, please.
Happy to say that I've written two new poems so far this semester, ones that I can keep. No time so far to look at the manuscript, between some major changes in my home life and adjusting to new duties at work. I have goals though. We'll see.
News items:
Barn Owl Review #3 contributor list in progress.
Reading with these amazing women tomorrow night.
13 comments:
Congratulations Marybee!
Wow! Congrats on early tenure.
Some day, I'd love to hear more about the life of a writing program administrator--what it's really like, how it's different from what you thought it would be like, its joys and frustrations.
What I really want to know is whether or not the life of a writing program administrator is different from an English dep't chair or the chair that's in charge of a Liberal Arts kind of department
So, if you're ever casting about for a blog topic, that one would get my vote.
Congratulations!
Congrats! (I was an administrator of a small developmental studies program for two years -- I discovered that I should never be an administrator of anything!)
Looking forward to your chapbook!
So happy for you Mary! Very deserved... Many congrats!
Congratulations! Exceedingly well done, and well deserved!
Thanks so much, y'all! :)
Awesome, congrats! As someone who isn't involved in school anymore (at the moment at least), I momentarily forgot what tenure was, and when I saw "early tenure" I was like "oh no!" And then I realized EARLY tenure means putting you on tenure quickly, not ending it soon, which I'm not even sure really makes sense. hahaha.
Just a little like "your test came back negative." Where you have to think a moment to figure out if that's good or bad. :P
That's such wonderful news, Mary! I'm just started that long road toward tenure, but I can already see how exhausting the journey can be. Mazel-tov!
Congrats again!
That's awesome news, Mary! Congrats!
Showing up at the party a couple of days late --
However, congratulations on tenure.
Yes! Congratulations, Mary....
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