Tuesday, May 20, 2008

NOW it's official

I finally got my letter from the president saying that the Board of Trustees has approved my tenure and promotion to associate professor.

Woo-hoo! Let the feasting begin!*

Now I'm going to go change my e-mail signature line.





*Bullock and I are talking about a celebration party inspired by medieval feasting -- with medieval recipes, but not sit-down. We haven't decided about forks yet.

28 comments:

Karl Steel said...

First to congratulate you! And it'll be great to have you, finally, posting under your own name, David Wallace.

Seriously, fantastic! Now, the next goal: saving rustbelt university from its president!

bwhawk said...

Congratulations to you!

Prof. de Breeze said...

I think I offered congratulations when it was only unofficially official, but let me offer my offically official congratulations now. Just goes to show what being noisy, scolding, or domineering can get you. :)

Feirefiz said...

Congratulations! Excellent news, though not at all unexpected.

We got our official, presidential tenure letters yesterday ourselves! But we're too tired to celebrate right now. Tomorrow we fly across the Pacific. We'll be doing a celebratory Welsh tour in late June/early July though. Too bad we won't run into you this summer.

You and Bullock's celebratory medieval dinner sounds fabulous. Congratulations again! And by the way, your Kalamazoo sounds fantastic. Your work's getting cited! You're getting known!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations!

K said...

Congratulations!!!

Fretful Porpentine said...

Awesome! Congratulations!

Mary Kate Hurley said...

Well done! :) So pleased for you!

Sisyphus said...

Hooray! Congratulations! Huzzah!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations!!!!!!

Phul Devi said...

YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Renaissance Girl said...

wonderful news! congratulations!

Steve Muhlberger said...

Congrats!

Did a weight lift off your shoulders?

Thoroughly Educated said...

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful, and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all whooping!

What Now? said...

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

I'm so happy for you! Many, many congratulations.

The Pastry Pirate said...

whoo hoo! huzzah! can i get a whut-whut?

and are you going to serve that archetypal medieval vegetable, the potato? hey, they sell them at RenFairs, so it's got to be accurate, right?!

congrats again!

Anonymous said...

DR VIRAGO FTW!!!!!!!

You're my hero. For the Kazoo post, too. SO many congrats!

Enjoy your medieval dinner. These things are worth doing if only to prove that historical reconstruction needn't involve busty wenches waving turkey legs. :)

(Not that I don't enjoy the occasional Ye Olde Mediaeval Cayke of Funnell, but you know what I mean.)

undine said...

Congratulations!

Bev said...

Congratulations! Celebrate! Here is how the conversation went when I first found out the trustees had approved my tenure bid and I called home to tell the husband:

Me: Great news! I got tenure! Gather the family together and let's go out and celebrate!

Him: I don't know, we've got all this leftover meatloaf in the fridge and we really ought to finish it up...

Me: Let's start over. Great news! I got tenure!

After that, it's all good.

Anonymous said...

Mazel tov, Dr. V! I'm still waiting for official notification from the trustees--but unless Alan Dershowitz suddenly decides I'm a threat, I should be fine. :)

Susan said...

Congratulations. It's great news, especially considering the pres!
And I love your feast idea -- though to be truly accurate, you'd have to cook in the fireplace, or roast a pig/lamb outside on a spit.

Laura said...

Congratulations, felicitations, jubilations, etc! :o)

medieval woman said...

FABULOUS NEWS!!

Many many congrats...!

Anonymous said...

You're not going to jelly anything are you? Or stew something in honey? Or make pastry swans? Actually, the swans sound kind of cool.

Félicitations! -- TJO'D

Anonymous said...

Congratulations! Super-awesome!

Bardiac said...

Congratulations!!!!!

Mmm, feasting!

Anonymous said...

Yay! Congratulations!

As for the feast (how sad is it that that just made me think of those Snickers commercials with Henry VIII?), I think there should at least be a list of all the various names for carving up different kinds of animals. Mainly because *I* can never remember what they are. I think maybe one sauces a capon, and breaks a goose?

Anonymous said...

Yo! Way to Go!