Grades went in Thursday morning; gifts got wrapped Thursday night. After Sunday – happy holidays! – it’s a one-day break before I’m off to MLA and The Serch.
And the MLA Job Information Center is in the Ballroom of the DC Omni Shoreham, which is a room I haven’t seen since my senior prom was held there, years and years ago.
Yeah. Tell me about it.
cindy ·
Best of luck serching, Mike. Knock ‘em dead.
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senioritis ·
Break a leg–in the theatrical sense :)
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mike (author) ·
Thanks for the encouragement. It seemed to go quite well for the most part, although there was a certain professor on one committee who was quite conspicuously sleeping – slouched on the couch with head back, eyes closed, mouth open – during part of my interview. Which, naturally, leads me to a question: under what portion of one’s CV does one put the line, “Mortal Embodiment of the Lyre of Orpheus”?
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cindy ·
I’ve never been to MLA–those of us interested only in the lowly community colleges don’t interview there ;-) But I’ve always thought how bizarre it is that they interview people in hotel rooms (I mean, I know it’s out of necessity, but still). I’m sure it wasn’t you who put him to sleep, but his surroundings!
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mike (author) ·
Hey, maybe it was me. Maybe it was the hotel room. Maybe I talk like Charlie Brown’s teacher, and maybe my research and teaching are inherently soporific.
And maybe a prominent member of a search committee just demonstrated to me why I’d have very little interest in his school’s program, and maybe that person has also demonstrated to me why I might read his literary scholarship as coming from someone who can’t be bothered to stay awake during MLA interviews.
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michelle ·
re: not the penultimate but the final paragraph: There ya go, Mike. I totally agree.
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