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Feb. 7th, 2005 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotnik2004My dear, dear friends:
I have been offered andam probably going to accept (pending negotiation of salary details, etc., which is the reason this post is still Friends-only) have now accepted! a tenure track job at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario.
This is wonderful news: it’s a great job at a great school, it’s tenure track, it’s a respected research university, I get to teach grad students, I get to develop one of the first programs in United States Studies in Canada, it means being in the same city as my sister and her family, and far closer to the rest of my family, and all my Toronto friends, than I’ve been in years.
This is terrible news: it means moving away from Boston, and so many of you!
More to come, no doubt, in person and on this LJ, about the decision and what it means, and what you all mean, to me. But, yeah. Big news.
Edit: One of the first U.S. Studies programs—turns out University of Toronto has one too. Grumble, grumble, Torontonians think they're so great... :)
I have been offered and
This is wonderful news: it’s a great job at a great school, it’s tenure track, it’s a respected research university, I get to teach grad students, I get to develop one of the first programs in United States Studies in Canada, it means being in the same city as my sister and her family, and far closer to the rest of my family, and all my Toronto friends, than I’ve been in years.
This is terrible news: it means moving away from Boston, and so many of you!
More to come, no doubt, in person and on this LJ, about the decision and what it means, and what you all mean, to me. But, yeah. Big news.
Edit: One of the first U.S. Studies programs—turns out University of Toronto has one too. Grumble, grumble, Torontonians think they're so great... :)
Congratulations!
Date: 2005-02-07 08:35 pm (UTC)"I get to develop the first Center for United States Studies in Canada"
Heh, I can see the course catalog now:
"What the fuck is WRONG with those people?" An Introduction to United States Studies.
Good luck!
Tom
Re: Congratulations!
Date: 2005-02-08 01:07 am (UTC)"In exchange, I taught them some simple games involving dice. Not many of them could understand the complex ideas behind the games, but that was to be expected.
"It was a strange and uncultured land. The only thing that kept me sane were thoughts of my dear homeland. Socialized healthcare...pea soup...Glass Tiger...the metric system...
"Still, I shall miss these brutes. I tried to civilise them as best I could and some of them showed some promise, but there is only so much one man can do. Perhaps one could even say they were almost...human."
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Date: 2005-02-09 12:39 pm (UTC)