the season

Application season is upon me. Abstract for conference talk this week, post-docs in two weeks, job list out this Friday, strange foreign deadlines in less than a month. On and on anon. Trying to get into the swing of things, for which read: panic has set in, works best under deadlines, and time is always on my side in a sick and twisted way. Plus work-work is ludicrously busy, so even the small number of precious 'pause and reflect' moments there have essentially disappeared. So my infrequent posting is unlikely to increase much, or, worse, it will fall under the 'whinge' category this blog was never meant to support. C'est la guerre.