It’s a long drive to the North Carolina’s Outer Banks, but well worth the journey. Highlights of the Memorial Day weekend: more grilled beef than you might think possible, mostly beautiful weather (with the exception of a brief, freakish hail storm), two holes-in-one during putt putt golf, catching up on my current summer reading, plenty of time doing absolutely nothing, and hanging out with the wild horses on the beach…
That’s me getting welcomed to the community of scholars by GMU’s president, Alan Merton. I’m not sure why, but we ended up being far more chatty than most. (Maybe I just took longer to learn the super-secret academia handshake? I’ll never tell.)
It was a Very Good Day. Highlights included:
* The swank robes.
* At ICAR’s commencement ceremony getting to enjoy graduation kudos and faculty kudos. I was publicly thanked for my ICAR teaching work by one of the graduating MA students and by the graduating BA students as a whole. Since I’ve had this quirky dual role as both student and adjunct faculty for such a long time, it was really nice to get the kind acknowledgements on both sides of the fence.
* I came home to find a contract in the mail for my new job. I’ve been offered and have accepted an assistant professor position at U Baltimore’s Center for Negotiations and Conflict Management.
So, yes… a Very Good Day.
I’m still swamped with work, but the light at the end of the tunnel is in sight: Friday. On Friday I’ll wrap up my international development consulting work, and also on Friday (possibly even tomorrow) I’ll be done with the last of my grading for the semester.
Then it’s two-weeks off (likely spent reworking my dissertation into some articles) before I start teaching a summer course at GMU. And then, come August, I start a new job (more details on that Very Happy News later).
Lots of work = lots of coffee. Thankfully, both the Spring semester’s teaching and my current consulting work are wrapping up this week.
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