tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post8447077755582781620..comments2023-12-20T17:48:18.108-05:00Comments on To Delight and to Instruct: ExodusHoracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15662740021328265642noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-2956514357378944292011-05-09T23:01:23.963-04:002011-05-09T23:01:23.963-04:00Chiming in, late as ever, to say don't go! Tho...Chiming in, late as ever, to say don't go! Though I could see that you might want to put your efforts into saying things in public in other venues, but you could still keep this place open for the one-offs and side comments.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-28492365540447598952011-05-09T10:48:13.557-04:002011-05-09T10:48:13.557-04:00I definitely hear you on how it feels to be the on...I definitely hear you on how it feels to be the one standing still when others are moving away. DC is and always will be a place where people come for a few years and then move on. Some stay longer than others, and some are true natives, but we have watched many close friends (y'all included of course!) move on to exciting new places and opportunities. We of course make new friends, too, but it can feel exhausting to always be meeting new people and working to form new friendships. I'm definitely most at ease with long-time friends that we don't have to work hard to be friends with.<br /><br />Of course the wonderful thing about DC is the opportunities and interesting people. And the fact that it seems like ALL of our friends, no matter where they live, will come through at some point! <br /><br />Hope to see y'all this summer at some point!nataliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14558459156350584817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-5870048758070858002011-05-09T10:45:48.077-04:002011-05-09T10:45:48.077-04:00I hope you'll keep blogging.
The one thing is...I hope you'll keep blogging.<br /><br />The one thing is, post-tenure, you have the chance, if you'll push it, to try to make things better in your department. If the tenuring process is horrid, you can now work to change it, for example. You can't change everything (or even most things), but you'll see a different side, and maybe can make things a bit more humane.<br /><br />You're also likely to have a lot more responsibility for mentoring colleagues, which is both awkward sometimes and rewarding.<br /><br />ps. Congratulations :)Bardiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-33903425778700919442011-05-05T14:23:47.616-04:002011-05-05T14:23:47.616-04:00The thing about tenure, and about wrapping up the ...The thing about tenure, and about wrapping up the first book project, is that it means you get to reinvent yourself if you want. You get to take on different kinds of projects, play different roles, change it up, if that's what you choose to do.<br /><br />I'm a weirdo in that I didn't feel a big post-tenure let-down. But I think that's because I gave myself permission to enjoy having tenure and to do what I wanted with that achievement. <br /><br />You can either view life after earning tenure as a prison or you can view it as uncharted territory, you know? <br /><br />(And I want you to keep blogging, but maybe the issue is that you need to figure out how you want to blog now, and maybe that's different from how you blogged pre-tenure?)Dr. Crazyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12457967076373916629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-56166711086432134092011-05-04T21:26:52.449-04:002011-05-04T21:26:52.449-04:00Hang in on the blog: I like it. You'll get y...Hang in on the blog: I like it. You'll get your mojo back, blog-wise and otherwise.Tenured Radicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-32556390921405460862011-05-04T18:21:05.120-04:002011-05-04T18:21:05.120-04:00That last bit is totally true, F... This is post-t...That last bit is totally true, F... This is post-tenure malaise on top of the normal couple of weeks of doldrums I get at the end of every school year.<br /><br />As for the blogging, we'll see. I want to see what happens if I re-commit to it as a kind of writing practice, but if I still can't sustain it, it may just be time to retire this space.Horacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15662740021328265642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-68890267172373757622011-05-03T22:50:33.226-04:002011-05-03T22:50:33.226-04:00First off, I hope you don't leave the blogosph...First off, I hope you don't leave the blogosphere--though I have you on Fb, I do like you in the longer form!<br /><br />This post strikes a chord with me. Though I'm a year (or more) behind you on all these things, and have a great deal of exciting changes happening in the immediate future, it's hard not to look <i>past</i> that immediate future and wonder what's next and what will get or keep me excited into perpetuity.<br /><br />This is partly to say that, although BRU surely has conditions/problems specific to it, I'm not sure it's so different elsewhere: departments seem either to be losing people (sometimes without being able to replace them, which happily doesn't sound like it's the case at BRU?), or they grow old and fusty. Those aren't the only two options, but sometimes it seems that way, maybe particularly when we're not the ones doing visibly new things with our lives.<br /><br />So, I don't know. I'm not saying there aren't (or might not be) real problems at your institution or in your department, and I'm definitely not dismissing the real sorrow of losing good colleague-friends. I live in fear of losing some of mine. But I'm wondering whether the malaise you're describing isn't more a function of our academic life stage, or of the academic life more generally.<br /><br />And if so, what we can do about it.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.com