As goes Lance Armstrong’s fortune so go mine I reckon. Lance was racing in the Tour de France yesterday … wrecked three times and lost over 11 minutes on the big riders of the Tour. Effectively ending his chances for an 8th Tour de France.
My misfortunes are only slightly less grande … my promotion is getting delayed a year thanks to my time in Arizona with the Army, if I use the GI Bill I have to tack on an extra six years to my commitment, and my ankle is still bummed out thanks to a football injury in Arizona.
As for my promotion to Assistant Professor … I’ve got a few options: (1) they let me go up for promotion this fall and continue to delay my tenure clock a year; (2) I choose to revoke my delay, thus making my promotion good for this fall but moving my tenure date up a year to 2013 (not sure I can get a PhD completed in 4 years); (4) they both get delayed … promotion to next fall and tenure to 2014. Not knowing what I’m going to be doing or where I’m going to be three or four years down the road, I’m almost open to releasing the year delay and having promotion be this fall and tenure by 2013. If I’m still there in 2013, I may have some issues; but if not, then I’m good to go. We’ll see.
If you’re interested in seeing my pics from Arizona and Colorado, check out my Shutterfly site: www.wesriddle.shutterfly.com
Enjoy.
