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Saturday I did the 12 mile 10,000-12,000-10,000ft Big Tesuque Run. My time was 1:45:30. I was 25th out of 110 and came in 5th in my age group. My time was almost 15 minutes faster than when I ran the course the previous week! Yeah for addrenaline.

This coming weekend, I’ve signed up for

I ran the course last weekend and finished in just under two hours. It’s a very spectacular run this time of year because the aspens have all colored up. Just as long as it doesn’t snow on me it should be fun!

And today, following yesterday’s long overdue rejection, I got another rejection! I guess once they started classes and realized they had hired someone to teach the classes…well they figured it was time to close the search! The nice thing was that this time I got an email with the subject “Condensed Matter Theroy Search.”[sic] Hmm, not a place for a literature major anyway, eh?

Today I received an email rejecting me for a faculty position I applied to over 9 months ago. Somehow I had already sort of gotten the impression that I wasn’t in the running. What, the 9 months of silence wasn’t a big enough hint?

The books (minus books that go to my office) have been unloaded. My back is still entact.

Just in case you thought this blog couldn’t get any more painful, I’ve decided to post pictures of the place I am moving into in New Mexico. Those who might actually look at the pictures? Well, my mom will! And maybe those who want to visit me seeing as I have two extra bedrooms!
Here is the outside of the new place. It is at the end of a dead end street (a few blocks from the Plaza) and it is the end unit of a quadplex (is that a word?) “This is the end, my only friend.” Maybe I will call my new house “My Only Friend.” Maybe not.

And what do we have here

an empty entry way.

Turn to your left after walking through the door and you’ll find the main living room

Once I get a couch, and put it in the living room, if you look up from this couch you will see the upstairs

and if you stand at the bottom of the stairs you will see

The downstairs is illuminated by this sky window

If all you thought was downstairs was the entry and the living room you are wrong! Wrong, I tell you! Behind the stairs is a bedroom



And also….a kitchen! I’m not quite sure how you use this part of the house, but it was nice of them to include it:


But wait…there is even more. Downstairs there is a “backyard”:

Look dirt:

Looking back at the house

and wait…what is behind that window?

A surprise for latter!
Let’s go upstairs

Don’t fall over that rail

At the top of the stairs, to the immediate left is another room and the bathroom. The “another room” will be a den/room with the fold out futon

and will also be the home of “Dave’s Laundery Wash and Dry”:

And look…a bathroom. Interesting stuff gets done here, you know


Continuing down the hall…I said don’t fall over the edge

Further around

and you’ll find..

my bed. O.K. so I took this picture after I had unloaded and set up my bed. But it is a surprise, isn’t it? Picachu wouldn’t have had it any other way.
Well that’s my new pad. Spiffy, eh?

It’s off to New Mexico I go. I decided my original plan, to drive to Yreka in order to retrieve the contents of a storage shed, and then drive to Santa Fe–adding up to 2000 miles driving a big 15 foot truck–was a bad idea.