Sometimes, the cunning plans, they work!

For all of the thrown mental gears and seized mental steamwork I'm dealing with in trying to get my papers done and out the door, I am needing to put some time and effort into setting up my next steps, i.e. either a teaching job or a post-doctoral fellowship that supports teaching.

The American Society of Microbiology has an education listserv, so I thought, what the heck, this is a group that's talking about education and teaching, and hopefully is supportive of people interested in such... so last night I dropped in a quick note asking for any recommendations or pointers to particular programs.

I'm already up to a dozen replies with helpful suggestions and personal anecdotes outlining how they found their own successes. I have many thank-you notes to write. And a bunch of new sites and schools to look at. Heh.