Life of a "grown-up" academic...
Yesterday I spent "refereeing" (is that a verb at all?) a panel, an article, some applications. Throughout the day, colleagues and students popped by to ask questions, and on the side, I dealt with various administrative and strategic questions by mailing with colleagues in Australia, the US, Norway... I found out there is a deadline for an article (almost complete already as it will built on a chapter from the thesis) in mid-May. Today's mail contained queries from an English and Spanish student and two minutes ago, I had a quick chat with a guy who wants to use StoryMOO for a pedagogical experiment with some Danish school children. And I just learnt this morning that my paper for the A.o.I.R conference in Toronto had been accepted. Simultaneously, a lot of interesting organisational stuff involving the game researchers is going on in DIAC, and I now have the time to play a significant part in that, not the least right now. All in all, my agenda is already reasonably packed, while it is a hoot to be back in some form of social circulation again.

Part of me just wants to sit down and pinch my arm: it still seems slightly unreal that I am now suddenly an Assistant Professor and not longer "just" a ph.d student (or graduate student, as they call us/them in the US). I am indeed, effortlessly it seems now, reaping the results of work already done: the networks I have built, the publications made, the construction of StoryMOO, the organisational services, I have done during the last 3½ years. It feels good. I'm happy.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 13:22