I received an email from the department chair today saying that it will be late in May before I hear about the recent sessional postings.  I’m pretty laid back and objective, and so I’m usually a content person, but waiting for the department’s decisions is seeming like a cruel test.  (I can’t actually ‘fail’ this test, but it’s hard for me to be patient about this!).

On a related note, the chair called and encouraged me to apply for more courses – a new first-year course called “Philosophy and Popular Culture” and a third-year Philosophy and Film course that I had initially passed on, purely because it was a third-year course; it’s not recommended that lecturers with only an MA teach anything beyond second-year.  At first I balked, but the chair replied that he would support me in any way he could – nice.  So I formally applied.  Out of a possible six postings (I passed on Philosophy and Gender – I could probably do a fine job of it, but I don’t want to have to deal with the likely students), I’ve applied for five.  I’ll be ecstatic if I get two.