Another month, another application

[nmg]

Edinburgh finally got back to me to say that I didn't get the lectureship there, thus scuppering any plans that ias and I might have had for raising Scots any time soon.

Just sent an application in for a lectureship in my department. My ex-supervisor (and head of department) has already told me that I won't get it, but has encouraged me to apply nonetheless; if I perform well at interview, they might be able to scrape together a two year teaching fellowship as an intermediate step before a (probationary) junior lectureship. Ah, the great taste of Jam Tomorrow...