Busy week. Snow and driving and snow and driving. Northern Illinois to Central IL to Southern IL to Central IL to Northern IL (that last bit done in heavy snow).
But, I did have the meeting I set out to have in Springfield with the chair of English at UIS. I didn’t have to sell myself much. He wants me in the program. He wants to expand the writing program (maybe with the boost of excitement with my Outstanding Thesis Award with a work of fiction) and they need more creative writing teachers. He wants me to be a full time lecturer/teacher (particularly in poetry and drama writing). This all sounds great (mostly because it sounds like I’d be mostly skipping the tedious comp classes that I’d be doomed to teaching on entry level to any of the other schools I’m looking at . . . and right to the gooey, creative core). The problem is budget. They’re not giving him the money to hire me full time. I may have partime work available to me should I want it . . . but given my debt, that might not be feasible (to move down there). I’m exploring this.
Tomorrow, I’m heading to TWILIGHT TALES in Chicago. This week’s activity is a workshop in writing erotica. I don’t know that I plan to write any erotica . . . but I don’t want to die wondering what goes on at an erotica workshop, and I have the power to do something about it.
Anything else before I slumber . . .
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. . . oh . . . yeah . . .
OBEY HYPNO-TOAD!!!
Joshua Alan Doetsch 
Yes, Hypno-Toad… Whatever you say, Hypno-Toad….
I’m so excited for you. When you go to get published, it will look really good if you have some background as an instructor in the field. If I were you, I’d go ahead and accept the part-time position, but keep looking for something full-time. You can always go back on the part-time position if you want to. It’s just nice to have a backup. Besides, if you just end up part-time, you’ll be in Springfield, and maybe Torrie can get you a position at the bar!
Yeah, I’ll see what I can work out.
i agree with Genenda.
Also, you can get me in there. then i can get a master’s and won’t have to resort to becoming homeless and smelly.
genenda said:
Yes, Hypno-Toad… Whatever you say, Hypno-Toad….
I’m so excited for you. When you go to get published, it will look really good if you have some background as an instructor in the field. If I were you, I’d go ahead and accept the part-time position, but keep looking for something full-time. You can always go back on the part-time position if you want to. It’s just nice to have a backup. Besides, if you just end up part-time, you’ll be in Springfield, and maybe Torrie can get you a position at the bar!
Or, since Val Perry resigned, you can come here to Eureka and take her spot. Please, come take over my Hamlet class.
I’ll be keeping a curious eye on English positions in Eureka. We’ll see what happens.
As for Hamlet, I can only offer tutoring sessions.
And by tutoring sessions, I mean visiting Eureka, drinking rum, and otherwise enjoying manic merriment. But I will wear black, like Hamlet, and I will likely have a skull adorning me somewhere, so we can go over the Yorick speech as often as needs be.
“Alas, poor Yorick . . . I’m out of rum. Fuck!”
purplejoy716 said:
Or, since Val Perry resigned, you can come here to Eureka and take her spot. Please, come take over my Hamlet class.
nevermore_66 said:
Yeah, I’ll see what I can work out.
nevermore_66 said:
I’ll be keeping a curious eye on English positions in Eureka. We’ll see what happens.
As for Hamlet, I can only offer tutoring sessions.
j_harker said:
i agree with Genenda.
Also, you can get me in there. then i can get a master’s and won’t have to resort to becoming homeless and smelly.
Hypno-Toad urges me to eat babies . . .
Then it shall be so!
farmkingdude85 said:
Hypno-Toad urges me to eat babies . . .
nevermore_66 said:
And by tutoring sessions, I mean visiting Eureka, drinking rum, and otherwise enjoying manic merriment. But I will wear black, like Hamlet, and I will likely have a skull adorning me somewhere, so we can go over the Yorick speech as often as needs be.
“Alas, poor Yorick . . . I’m out of rum. Fuck!”
nevermore_66 said:
Then it shall be so!