This has been a big year for me. I had two books published, travelled to Lisbon, to Italy, Germany, the UK and the US, gave a slew of talks and talked to a slew of folk. And today I was recorded for a nation-wide show, Ockham’s Razor (probably to be broadcast next year) on species.
Oh, and the contract came for a job. As of soon, I will be an Associate Professor at Bond University on the Gold Coast of Queensland (think Miami Beach without the cyclones). This is 2/3rds teaching and 1/3rd research, so I can keep my hand in and write my various next books. But it means that I have to:
1. Arrange to move
2. Find a place to live (in Brisbane; the GC is only an hour’s drive due south)
3. Write two courses straight away
4. Buy a car (for the hour’s drive).
5. Revise and resubmit three papers.
6. Write three book reviews.
All before Christmas. The nervous breakdown is scheduled for December 26 to 2 January.
Now I’m not complaining, and fame and fortune have arrived at last in a modest but satisfying manner, but I may be a little light on the blogging for a while. On the other hand, every time I’ve said that in the past, the Bloggods have sent me material that I have just had to write about. Hang about and see…
Very, very nice. Congratulations!
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[Maybe, just maybe, I should start constructing my courses while I'm safely removed from any sensible job opportunity ... or maybe I should apply your management principles.]
Great news. Congratulations.
Congratulations, a splendid way to start the 150th celebrations!
Congratulations
Matt says that if you fly us over there, we’ll help you pack.
I attribute it all to the move to WordPress. Congratulations and good luck!
Congratulations, John!
Congratulations! But is it really feasible to live in Brisbane and work on the Gold Coast? That drive has to be less than pleasant…
Worse; I’ll be riding my motorbike for the first six months. And lecturing at 8 am Mondays…
Just grand news John … and coming so quickly and easily too!
Best of luck in the new job!
I will find you, Pieret, and hurt you…
Professor Snowflake… That sounds great! I knew it had to be a better job. Congratulations! again.
It has come as a mixed blessing with all that work you have to do. I feel your pain. As part of the tenure process I have to design four courses.
And that thing about foreign languages. I remember you mentioning in a recent post that you speak some German.
I speak enough German to know what it is I’m confused about when I don’t know what they’re saying. In Italy, I didn’t even know that.
He’s lying, his German is both much better and much worse than that!
Congratulations.
With success comes more work as you’ve found out
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So now you are an Australian professor (of philosophy?) you’ll be changing your name to Bruce.
This is great news, John! Congrats all around.
oh reading this makes me all nervous and panicky (I’m completing my dissertation and being a well – very seasoned grad student, the adminisitration is breathing down my neck). I have the same nervous breakdown scheduled for Dec 1st.
Congrats and best of luck gettign everything done.
Wonderful news, John! Congratulations from here in Chicago.
Congratualtions!
fusilier
James 2:24
Many congrats, John, and highly deserved.
Louis
Well, you speak Australian anyway.
Congratulations – even though you have to become a Queenslander again. Getting an academic job in current circumstances is a real achievement.
Congratulations John, well deserved!
think Miami Beach without the cyclones
Oh, and good luck learning Spanish then…
We few, we slewish few, we band of those astonished that anyone can get that much done in so short a time, wish you great success.
What are you lecturing on, Resort and Tourism Management or Counselling and Behaviour Management?
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer or more deserving Ape
I’m glad for you, man! I remember a time — last year — when you were strapped for cash and jobless! I’d suggested you became a translator, but I was absolutely flabbergasted — flabbergasted, I tell you! — that you didn’t know a foreign language! It’s called culture, man!
Just kidding.
Seriously though, congrats on the new job and the books!
I’m Australian. I’m a submonoglot. We don’t even speak English well.
Congratulations, Prof!
Thank you sir. It’s not as prestigious as lecturing at Yale, though…