Friday, June 23, 2006
(8:14 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: Walking
I confess that I am overly sensitive and at times even paranoid about money issues, an unfortunate but apparently unavoidable side-effect of my chosen lifestyle. I confess that I took it really personally when the clerk at Dominick's wouldn't swipe her card for me.I confess that sometimes I feel like most people have really poor follow-through. I confess that people who don't answer my e-mails really bother me -- being bad about e-mail makes you a bad person in my book. I confess that these traits make me hope that by the time I'm entering the academic job market, electronic publishing (at least for journal articles, if not for books) becomes more mainstream and more tenure-friendly, because it is obviously way faster and more efficient to publish with electronic journals, and it seems to me that there might normally be an element of timeliness to articles, moreso than for books.
I confess that I'm proud to say that my mom's first year as a teacher was a huge success and that my dad is in the final stages of putting together what promises to be a really solid rock album.
I confess that I'm having trouble finding work this summer and that my sense of fatalism about the whole process is probably not helping. I confess that if Craigslist gives a representative picture of the job market as a whole, then there is literally no justice in the world.
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