Things are pretty tight at the moment – so not much time for blogging. The lecture is taking up most of my time; I am quite a bit ahead with my preparation, but I have to keep up. On the other hand, I constantly tweak my notes – firstly for the evening class (adding my experience from the day class, which gets the first reading), secondly adding things I have to stress again or provide more examples at the request of students.
The rest of my time is spent with the preparation of job and grant applications. After 3 1/2 years my contract is about to finish and I am looking for some more teaching experience after years of research. I intend to build a teaching portfolio to be in a better position, when new faculty jobs will be advertised. I guess it will also lighten my load a little, should I ever be offered one that I decide to take on (many implicit ifs here). But I do enjoy teaching and would like to do a little more on a university level.
I have also applied for a networking grant for my planned trips to Vienna and Newfoundland. I have made contact with research groups working in a similar field and I am looking forward to meeting them and exchange ideas and discuss experiments.
