Hysterical bending

I've been so busy lately, and it's only going to get worse this month - but I'm still making time to update this blog!

I'm in the midst of trying to finish my dissertation, apply to professorship positions around the country, and send an article manuscript out for publication. The second of those is the most time consuming because I am attempting to craft a unique letter for every job rather than just mail out a bunch of form letters. Of course, I might still get back a bunch of form rejection letters from the schools I apply to, but I'm hoping that some schools will appreciate my attempt to speak to them directly and maybe that will buy me some interview time with the search committees. We'll see. At least in my field of study - modernist lit. - there isn't a lot of jobs to apply to. Actually, that's probably a bad thing.