Let me first offer this disclaimer. I am NOT going on the job market. Not only am I quite happy in my current position, AND am I completely disinterested in moving, AND on a search committee here at WVU this year, but I am completely loathe to go through the what? 4, 5, 6, months of ego-grinding uncertainty that a job search entails...If I can avoid it, I don't ever want to feel again what I felt for a third of the year every fall and early winter for three years running.

But ...

While the early returns were not promising, there are a few jobs out there now that are pretty attractive...some are bigger name schools where I'd likely collapse under the research pressue, and a few are SLACs where I might feel a bit under the microscope in the small school environment, and for some reason, a few are evidence of the fact that Canadians are inordinately more interested in drama scholars than American institutions...but there are one or two out there, only one or two, mind you, that in other circumstances (like, if I didn't actually have a good job) I'd be salivating over.

I can't tell if the job search season is still (in my second year on the tenure track) part of may seasonal rhythms, or whether my ambition is somehow getting the best of me, or maybe I just want to be closer to a city, but despite all rational reasons to the contrary, I sorta wanna throw my hat in the ring, just in case, maybe, just maybe, they might...pick...me.