Interviewed! Lived to tell!

I got interviewed!

It was... long.

• 6:00 – Get up to practice talk
• Body time (PST → EST transition + DST): 2:00? I think?
• 9:00-11:00 – Many ½ hour meetings
• 11:00 – Give talk (eek)
• 12:00 – Lunch
• 13:00-18:30 – Many ½ hour meetings
• 18:30 – Break
• 18:35-21:00 – Dinner (delicious; also, thinly veiled excuse for more interview)

That's not THAT long a day, but it's a pretty nonstop day, if that makes sense. Very few breaks, no letting guard down.  On the flip side, I learned a lot.

Since we're making lists:

1. Faculty seem socially isolated
2. 2/3 of faculty live in NYC or Princeton (see above) – not a great sign
3. Teaching load going up soon (from 1/1 to 1/2)
4. Funding seems an issue in general
5. CS department is split across several buildings
6. Many significantly older professors

1. Faculty seem friendly, forthcoming, and interested
2. Students are engaged and (mostly) interesting
3. Two profs closest to my research are both ~ my age and nice people
4. Many options for collaboration, I think 
5. Um, east coast? duh?
6. Only one person harassed me a bunch about Cyc

I don't have a synthesis.  Too tired.  But hey, it happened, and the world didn't implode or anyfing, so that's nice.  I felt like it went pretty well, and like I had a good connection with many of the people I talked to.  Maybe that's accurate, maybe it was the sleep dep.

We Shall See!

I was gonna add something about... something... hard.  Uh.  Hard is too hard.  Brain going offline.  Cat:

My macbook pro has warms. He especially likes it when I play Flash games.

Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax

I committed quite an extensive rant a couple of days ago, explaining why it was slightly daft to aim for academia. Of course, I had planned a followup to explain why it can be right, and wonderful, and fulfilling, and actually a great choice. (I did throw in an "unless" in there...)

Unfortunately, that one's going to have to wait, because I am frantically trying to get ready for (gulp!) my first faculty candidate interview, on Monday. (eeeeeeeek)

So only easy nail polish posts and kitties until that's over with.  Also, medical stuff, good stuff we hope. So on all fronts, cross your fingers for me! Meanwhile,

We cannot see you.  Because you are Sneaky.