Saturday, September 06, 2008

T&P Application Fallout

  • It's only one week (or so -- who knows anymore) into the new academic year and I am exhausted.
  • As in, my eyes are burning to sleep while awake exhausted.
  • As in, my head hits the pillow and I am out for the count exhausted.
  • As in, the alarm clock sounds and it takes me a full minute to figure out who I am, why the alarm is going off and what day it is exhausted.
  • There are damn good reasons for the summer academic break.
  • Take that summer academic break away and you have me: exhausted.
  • I thought that maybe it was just me blaming my crankiness on a summer lost due to the tenure & promotion ordeal.
  • Until I stated, quite flatly, to a colleague (who also just submitted his tenure & promo app) that this year's first year medical class seems super-excited.
  • His response?
  • "Yeah"
  • pause
  • "But I don't care."
Yep, neither do I.

This, dear medical students, is why you have apathetic teachers. I'm beginning to understand the whole cranky professor thing.

2 comments:

Bardiac said...

Good luck for you and your colleague. It sort of gets easier, I understand, one way or another, but the tenure process is just nasty. Sorry.

Jared At The Doctor Job said...

Hang in there, my friend!