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Well, it looks like I have a job teaching at the OU in the East Midlands next year! They rang on Monday, and arranged an interview in Nottingham which happened yesterday (exhausting day of travel - 5+ hours on train, 2 hours wandering around Nottingham trying to find the centre, three-quarter hour interview :-) My interview seemed to go well, and at the end they offered me the post, subject to satisfactory references and sufficient student numbers (which they said looked very promising atm). It would be at the Northampton centre, though I'd only have to go there to give tutorials (which are nothing like tutorials in Cambridge _or_ Oxford) about once a month - most of the teaching is done remotely. So, I'm pretty pleased about that. It wouldn't be anything like a full-time position (I definitely couldn't live on the pay) so I'll have to get other employment as well next year. But it's a start; it keeps me in academia; it has prospects for taking on further courses in subsequent years, or taking on a
full-time position with the OU, so it's a good thing. All very exciting.
It was weird going to Nottingham again - the last few times I've been there were at the start of my relationship with D, who used to live there. The station area, the Broadmarsh shopping centre, the central square, various restaurants and pubs we went to, all looked familiar for that reason. I was amused while walking up the Mansfield Road to see a post office with a single advert in its window: Golf Balls in Stock now!!! Only 30p each! I wondered why this particular product seemed so worthy of advertisement :-)
Calling was on Tuesday - good time, very trashed. Talked much to