Yeah -- it really was meant to be one thing, and sort of turned into another, and for a while it was really cool, but then I realized that few of the conversations interested me, and the forum that got the most action was "Plagiarism Watchtower," and, you know, that's just not cool. It had turned into... just about every other forum out there.
That said, I do like having something to tend to, so there may well be "something else" in the future. Teh boi has a few ideas, and I daresay they're not bad ideas. And we'll have a dedicated server, so that nixes the cost of having a host.
As for the PhD thing... the sad thing is, I don't even know WHY I want one anymore. Just that I want one. Once I realized the heavy emphasis on publishing in the university world, I got turned off of university teaching. I prefer to interact with the students and exchange ideas that way. The push for scholarship and research... kind of annoys me, because it's like the universities are losing sight of why they're there in the first place. I could probably get a pretty sweet position at a high-end prep school with a PhD, but ... I don't know.
Speaking of high-end prep schools, I'm sending out another huge batch of CV's to a slew of schools in the Mid-Atlantic area. So we'll see if anything comes of that. Most schools don't even think about hiring until Feb or March, but at least this way I'll feel like I'm DOING something. I may even look for non-academic jobs in the DC area. (I was in DC for grad school and have been looking for opportunities to go back.)
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That said, I do like having something to tend to, so there may well be "something else" in the future. Teh boi has a few ideas, and I daresay they're not bad ideas. And we'll have a dedicated server, so that nixes the cost of having a host.
As for the PhD thing... the sad thing is, I don't even know WHY I want one anymore. Just that I want one. Once I realized the heavy emphasis on publishing in the university world, I got turned off of university teaching. I prefer to interact with the students and exchange ideas that way. The push for scholarship and research... kind of annoys me, because it's like the universities are losing sight of why they're there in the first place. I could probably get a pretty sweet position at a high-end prep school with a PhD, but ... I don't know.
Speaking of high-end prep schools, I'm sending out another huge batch of CV's to a slew of schools in the Mid-Atlantic area. So we'll see if anything comes of that. Most schools don't even think about hiring until Feb or March, but at least this way I'll feel like I'm DOING something. I may even look for non-academic jobs in the DC area. (I was in DC for grad school and have been looking for opportunities to go back.)