Summer is almost here
“Summer” in the school sense of the world is just around the corner, or I guess, for Kyle it’s already started. His teaching appointment ended the first of May and we found out this past week that they’re not going to be able to renew him for next year. We’re trying to look at that as a positive thing but it’s still a major bummer. We were hoping he’d get another one-year appointment at the same school to direct their debate and forensics team. I know he would have been a great fit and a great candidate for the job, but I guess it’s a little hard to compete against people with PhDs when the department looks at it as a way to add another tenure-track position to their department.
I think he’s doing better about it than I expected him to if this happened, and now we’re really back where we expected to be last August, except this time we’re not dealing with the financial strain of having just completed graduate school, or of having just moved almost 600 miles, and we’ve both been more gainfully employed for the last 9 months than ever in our life and we have a house with a mortgage payment smaller than any amount of rent we’ve ever paid and we even have some money in savings. So, all in all, it could be worse.