Recalibrating mood is much like choosing to be merciful.

Since my sadfest yesterday, I realized that I could spy a bit on some of my job applications, and so learned that they are still in review.  Though January, the prime time for academic interviews, careens to a close, I shall be honest in acknowledging that it isn’t yet official that I haven’t been selected…

Disappointment is a low energy response to thwarted hopes.

So far as courting positivity and welcoming wisdom as regards a lifetime of poverty line, I must say that I am feeling a bit over it today.  While I do believe I have safely left behind temptations to enter into the abysmal abyss of self-loathing, it is a blue thing to repeatedly monitor and vigilantly…

Casting

As is congruent with my somewhat involuntary, ongoing hobby of writing a perhaps endless stream of cover letters from a place of cheerful detachment, I finished up another one today! This university position is particularly appealing in its adherence to the liberal arts tradition as a bastion of positive social change, and so inspired a…

Demoralized

I called in to the fed loan people to AGAIN request forbearance on my student loans.  As an adjunct instructor, the likelihood of an ongoing lack of a paycheck is unavoidable, as this summer examples.  No classes offered for me to teach, no income, no repayment.  My borrowed amount is now doubled in terms of…