Brain melting. Remember that call for applicants for a tenure track job? We're screening all those applicants now, and meeting tomorrow to consider who to invite to the first round of preliminary phone interviews. If you haven't got your application in, you're late! You're going to hope everyone else sucks badly if you're still trying to get something filed here.
All it means to me right now though is more squinty staring at lots and lots of essays and CVs and recommendations. I may be entering a data coma soon.
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