22

I’ve applied to 22 jobs in the 3 weeks since leaving IOI. That seems like a pretty good rate to me. It’s been slow hearing back from people because it’s over the holidays- I’ve only received one rejection and one cryptic “you are on the...

The end of a (short) era

Well, the time has come. I was finally let go from my small marketing company that I’ve worked at since June. It was never a good fit- I struggled mightily the whole 6 months I was there, and finally, on Monday, I was let go. It was mutual- I wasn’t doing...

Close Call

Well, I thought I was losing my full-time job. It’s a long story that I won’t recount here, but needless to say, I have been an anxiety bomb for the last few weeks. But so far, it looks like I’ve escaped the knife. It’s hard to fit a round peg...

Interview with UMR

Yesterday I had a teaching interview with University of Minnesota- Rochester. It’s just a one-term assignment to fill in for the regular sociology professor who will be taking a stretch assignment for the term, but it would be great to teach this class!...

Spam

I literally just deleted HUNDREDS of spam comments on this site, all of them from Russia or Israel. I don’t know how my site became a target for spammers, but it’s a major mess. I wish I could have a feature that would block comments from .ru addresses,...

2 more publications!

I am happy to  announce that Katrin Kutlucinar and myself co-authored a piece called “Connecting the Bipolar Consumer with Scientific Information” has been accepted to Bipolar Disorders. This is a HUGE journal- the leading medical journal about  Bipolar...

Establishing Credibility

In my last post, I talked about the autoethnography I am preparing for publication. The autoethnography describes a series of stigmatizing events that occurred to me and other patients FROM other patients, because me (and my group) had psychosis, and the other group...

Autoethnography

I used to think autoethnographies were stupid and egotistical. Basically, it’s a scientific paper where you are the subject. Ego, right?But I’ve read some really interesting authnographies lately- including one about a black superintendent of a school...

Computer

My new employer is sending me a new computer (Mac) and new monitor, so I’ll have two monitors. My current monitor is old, so probably won’t fit into the dock they send. So I’ll have to buy a new monitor if I want to use 2 monitors. On the other hand,...