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<DIV>oh wow you guys, I'm really touched by all this feedback, especially those who've taken the time for a longer contribution. It does help to know I'm alone - and to hear about some of the alternative options.</DIV>
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<DIV>in my own defence I'd say I'm not normally so gloomy, but add to the usual horrors of the first year of work a *still* incomplete dissertation and moving 175 miles from my partner for the job, and it all got a bit hairy.</DIV>
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<DIV>never mind - I always liked Aeon Flux's version of 'that which does not kill us' (makes us stranger).</DIV>
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<DIV>cheers</DIV>
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<DIV>and Rhossili really is a very nice beach. Not Coolum, by any means, but still very nice.</DIV>
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<DIV><B><I>Karen Dean <k.dean@ballarat.edu.au></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">While I do confess to an especial glamour, it gets so much worse than<BR>you suspect, my young friend. Some of us, for example, find ourselves<BR>teaching in a version of _The Joe Schmo Show_: we are the only ones who<BR>don't know it's a joke, and *the joke isn't even funny*.<BR>Love from Karen at the University of Ballarat <BR><BR><BR>_____________________________<BR>Dr Karen Gai Dean<BR>School of Behavioural & Social Sciences & Humanities<BR>University of Ballarat<BR>PO Box 663<BR>Victoria 3353<BR>Australia<BR>k.dean@ballarat.edu.au <BR>ph: 61-3 5327 9627<BR>fax: 61-3 5327 9840<BR>CRICOS Provider Number 00103D<BR>>>> adoptedvietnamese@hotmail.com 08/11/04 5:01 PM >>><BR>What kind of combat sport is cultural studies? Wow - and I thought the<BR>academics looked so glamourous rocking up on Critical Mass, jet setting<BR>to<BR>international conferences,
and
nice odd jobs sitting on government<BR>boards as<BR>advisors. Perhaps some of you could consider starting up a reality<BR>program<BR>like The Apprentice - or The Survivor, only call it The Post-Doc. Each<BR>week, ten post-docs battle it out for tenure. Tasks could be like who<BR>gets<BR>the most published papers, hosting a workshop on a budget of near zero<BR>and<BR>enduring long hours of lecturing without much sleep...I'd watch it.<BR><BR>_______________________________________<BR><BR>csaa-forum<BR>discussion list of the cultural studies association of australasia<BR><BR>www.csaa.asn.au<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p>
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