For several weeks after I’d happily accepted EMU’s offer of a faculty
position, the dmueller-edition Q&A recordings continued churning through my
portable MP3 player every so often. By then I found them somewhat
silly-sounding, an off-key sequence of quirky, wandering think-alouds, something like little pacts
between me, my iPod Shuffle, and Kathryn Hume, whose
Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt was never out of reach from September
through late February. I finally removed the tracks after CCCC, more than
a month after I no longer needed to listen to those droning loops of me
rehearsing 120-second answers.