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[zebtronica]

i made butternut squash soup for supper. mmm.
my belly hurts though from the stupid graham cracker that i ate so i can get a positive test next month.
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[ex_carnivale800]

damn, I miss graham crackers. I just bought enough cozy shack chocolate pudding to make me a diabetic within the week. Yum.

[zebtronica]

well if it's any comfort, they're stale and my gut is bloated!!!
cozy shack is a really funny name for a pudding. it gives me a visual of someone eating many many many puddings under a blanket, with a snowstorm going on, slurp slurp slurping away.

did you have bad bruising when you were still eating gluten?
i have a massive bruise from where they took blood yesterday, it's about 4 inches across!

[ex_carnivale800]

No, I've never been really a bruisie type of person, unless of course I've majorly dislocated something. And your picture of the pudding thing is pretty much accurate, minus the snowing part.

[zebtronica]

i'm in the midst of preparing a teaching dossier, i'm actually going to apply for a job at western, and other places as they come up, i'm going crazy where i work. do you plan on using your mfa to get a teaching job? i didn't think i wanted one but the summers off are looking sweet to me, and being able to do research, and having discussions about art, sharing knowledge, sounds pretty seductive.
i probably won't get the one at western but if i get my ass on it, i'll have everything i need to apply for ones that i can get.
if you see anything yummy teaching wise out west(or anything for that matter) that you're not going to apply for, pass it on to me!!!!!

[ex_carnivale800]

Oh lordy, you probably think me a royal arse now, who hated everyone and everything about the program... and you'd be right! (just kidding). No, there were/are some good people there for sure, but I do think the vantage point - from the faculty side, is much different from the lowly grad student's side.

Which job are you thinkin of applying to? I sat in on the hiring process(es) for the Photography or Media Theorist/Practitioner job they're still looking to fill, when er (what the hell was her name?) applied. (I'll remember her name eventually). So if you're thinking of applying, I'll try my best to recall as much of what went on as possible.

And yeah, sessional work... I don't have it in me to move from job to job and from province to province like so many people I know do, but hopefully I can pick up something at ECIAD. Who knows, I don't have a hell of a lot of experience teaching. But maybe that's a good thing?

[zebtronica]

well you're still fresh outta grad school, so your teaching experience is pretty recent, that's a plus!
i'd dying to know who "whats her name" is. yeah, it's probably the media theorist/practioner job. it's a wierd job description, but i fit a big chunk of it. why haven't they filled it yet? did they have someone specific in mind? (or is there some stinkiness about the job?) i know sometimes they do that, at york it was like: printmaker AND video artist, which is pretty hard to fill. is it a new job? or did someone leave, and if someone left, do you know who?
i don't think you're an arse, although if i did, i'd make it royal for sure. i was pretty bitter about grad school so i think i understand where you're coming from. do you know june pak? i think she teaches sessional stuff at western.

[ex_carnivale800]

I remember now, "what's her name was" Kartz Ucci. I think at the time, when they interviewed her, they didn't really know what they wanted for the position or of the applicant: which is the same position they're still looking to fill. I think they want someone who's quite theoretical - as the dept. likes to think of itself as such.

The process once an interview is granted:
- they set up a committee (comprised of faculty) who interviews the applicant = one billion questions
- then the applicant does a slide lecture to anyone interested in the lecturehall and fields questions from everyone (some are highly absurd questions, and really long-winded, usually those "huh?"-type questions come from Susan Schuppli, or David Merritt)
- then the applicant interviews/meets/studio-visits with the grad students

and I didn't meet Jun Pak while I was there. I don't think she was there then.

[ex_carnivale800]

and oh yeah, most of that interviewing, lecturing, meeting usually takes place in one day, so if you get accepted to interview, be prepared for an all day event.