Linden's Pensieve

As some of you may know, I had a job interview at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Geißen, Germany on August 7. The job I applied for was a full-time tenured position to teach future English teachers English and how to teach it. They did not offer me that job, but gave it to the other applicant instead. [...]

We are trying to keep this Germany thing hush-hush. We don’t want anyone at BBBY to hear that we might be moving soon. Because of that, I won’t be posting anything on Facebook or MySpace while I’m gone, so all the news and pics will be posted here. I am hoping that I’ll be able [...]

Beth thinks that they might offer me the job at the end of the interview! Whoa. That would be really exhilarating! Rob thinks I should tell them that because of the information they’ve given me today (I have a few questions about the position, salary, benefits, etc. to ask them), I need to discuss the [...]

I’m going crazy right now. I get up and run in the morning, go home and either sleep for a few more hours because I didn’t go to bed early enough the night before or grade papers. Then I get ready for work (shower, hair, get dressed, breakfast), go to the ELI. Class prep and [...]

“New Potter Book May Have Made Its Way to Web” is the title of Motoko Rich’s NY Times article reporting that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows may have been leaked, but I want to know for sure. Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing right now. There’s no way of knowing until I get [...]

Okay, now I am going ask if any one is reading this. If you are, you’re getting a secret-ish type thing today. We don’t want to announce this to everyone yet, because it’s just an interview, but here’s the news. A couple weeks ago, I sent an application in for a full-time tenured position at [...]

Okay, I was getting ready to write a post about how I wish people would let me know they are reading this blog more, but then I realized that it’s just like staying in contact: as much as I haven’t called you, you haven’t called me. So if I want people to read this, I [...]

“I think I was focusing on the little things to keep me from dealing with bigger, more important matters.” From Sarah W.’s blog.Am I doing this? LifeOrganizers.comClockingIT.comI don’t want [my daughters] to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting … a thousand things before ‘thin.’ –J.K. Rowling It is not the [...]

In a little over an hour, I’m going to start running my very first 10k!!! I’m getting more and more nervous as time passes, but I think it’s going to be a good run. I could NOT get to sleep last night, so despite taking 1 1/2 sleeping pills at 7:00p, I was awake until [...]

I am having a good night! I was going to go to Cheddar’s to read Huckleberry Finn (since I didn’t finish it during the semester) and get $2.50 strawberry ritas, but then I realized I could prolly do it cheaper at home. So off to the Wine Center I went. Bought the Strawberry Rita mix, [...]