A great weight...

I feel like a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders. Yesterday I completed my promotion and tenure folders. This is a big deal for me as these folders will be the "proof" that I deserve to be promoted and that I should be kept on as a permanent faculty member, instead of having to justify it each year. Another piece of pressure is that I'm going up early, which is very unusual for my organization, especially because this is my first professional position. Every one who I remember going up early already had a lot of experience else where that could carry over to here.

If I don't get it, that's ok. I'll have next year. But I'd rather not go through all of this again. Wish me luck!

Complain, complain, complain...

That's all I've been doin' lately. I apologize for that. Things are better now as I've recently taken a vacation and things are so much better. I almost would feel like a new man, except for the fact I have the same clothes, and clothes are what make the man, right? Yeah, I didn't think so either.

Why am I so giddy? I don't really know - but it might be a mix of things. I've started exercising a little bit more regularly now, some of big projects are finished or well under control, my promotion and tenure bid is shaping up quite nicely, the wife has found a part-time job, and the cat has recently started to sit in my lap where before she was quite content just looking down from her perch at us.

Life is good, except for whatever was causing my stomach make me queasy all day yesterday, but I fell better now - so I won't complain.