Monday, March 14, 2005
(2:20 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Acceptance
I got an acceptance letter in the mail today!Okay, it was from Nottingham, and it just turns out that they sent it to the wrong address originally. I e-mailed them recently to say that I'm still considering their offer but was waiting to hear from all my schools, and the lady said, "Well, you were actually supposed to respond within six weeks, as it said in the letter, but we'll keep your offer open," and I said, "Letter?" In addition to my acceptance and the appropriate timeframe, the letter also informs me that if I make satisfactory progress, my status will be changed from MPhil to PhD, and that my advisors would be Philip Goodchild and Alison Milbank. I think that Prof. Milbank's husband is supposed to be someone famous.
At CTS, the other school that has offered me a position, my advisor would be someone named Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. Has anyone heard of this guy?
Anyway, the other thing I got in the mail today was my car insurance bill. Apparently they're not raising my rate, even though I moved to Chicago. I can live with that. I can also live with continuing not to hear from DePaul and New School -- take your time, guys! Consider carefully. I'll just be working on my Derrida translation and critical introduction, looking over the article in which I was profiled by the august Scott McLemee, writing up an abstract on Žižek and Christianity for the MLA, sending in various papers to scholarly journals, and -- for fun! -- reading a little Baudelaire, in French. That conference I went to last week, where I mesmerized the audience with a paper that combined, in equal measure, rigorous scholarship and conceptual daring, threw off my schedule somewhat, but I'm getting back on track. It's basically just an average day in the life of a busy, conscientious scholar who would be a joy to work with.
How I find time to blog is beyond me.
