dj whitebread
Monday, June 01, 2009
Result
My academic career has not gone exactly like I planned it so many years ago now when I started grad school. I am not making a qualitative comment here. I'm just saying there have been several unexpected twists and turns.
One of them was that people decided to freak out about the economy. Needless to say, even us in computer science felt the hurt. So here I am with a CV weaker than I had hoped trying to find a job in the toughest research job market almost ever. Well, this past week the search came to an end, and I decided to stay UT, but to start working (officially) with a different professor than I worked with during my graduate years. There were some other opportunities, but this one was the best all around for me, my career goals of one day being a professor, and my life with Carrie.
I am extremely excited about the opportunity to stay here and continue the work that I have recently started. I think this is going to be a great thing. I am also pretty happy to stay in Austin for another year... Austin is an amazing city, and I feel blessed to have already spent 9 years (!) here.
I am also excited to know what I am doing. At least for a little while...
The past two weekends have been exciting and fun. Last weekend was graduation, and I plan on covering that in more detail in a future post. This weekend, we had the Courvilles come and visit for Champ's first trip to Austin. We had a wonderful time, and Champ did great. Jeff and I got to go on a bike ride (his new bike is awesome, by the way) with a long time friend of his on Saturday. We both got home pretty beaten up... but it was still awesome. My fitness has improved, but there is much more to go. I plan on having an entire post on my thoughts on bike stuff, so I'll leave it at that.
It was great to see Anna, Jeff, and Champ. I was able to take a few pictures of Champ in his cool fish pajamas on Friday night.
I took a lot more, but they were not sharp, so while they're super cute (of course, that's to Champ's credit, not mine) they're not particularly good pictures.
To wrap up, thanks again Courvilles for coming to visit, and be on the lookout for a graduation and cycling themed posts soon. Have a good week!
Labels: Black and White, Champ, Courvilles, cycling, sweet pain
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