All That I Want

(OK, technically, I'm not officially an Associate Professor until the Trustees approve it in February, but the Dean said that worrying about that is sort of like worrying that an asteroid will destroy the Earth before then...)

Then read this comment in February:

Congrats!

Congratulations! That's most excellent news. You can now sleep at night (modulo asteroids).

All I want for Christmas is my NSF grant... but that would be more of a, I dunno, Spring Equinox present, or perhaps a Memorial Day present. Until then it's just stress.

-Rob

Woo-hoo!

Congratulations!

Sort of a nice Christmas present-- congratulations.

I think I may bring this up to my boss and ask him what I need to do to get tenure here. (Because, you know, I don't get enough mockery in the workplace....)

Oh, awesome! Now (February's version of now) is the time to smoke whatever you've got! Because they can't get rid of you! You've got TENURE!!

Please get wasted on the drug of your choice (sugar is acceptable), come the actual occasion, and then spend 45 minutes posting and attempting badly to spell the word "tenure".

Congratulations! Good job! Many happy returns!

Sweet! Now we can get the loony, controversial posts that you've been saving up.

Please get wasted on the drug of your choice (sugar is acceptable)

Wait... we're not supposed to get wasted on sugar until we have tenure?

Oops.

Anyway, I suspect few people are surprised that Chad got tenure. What this does also mean is that he can read all those tenure-track assistant professor applications without needing to feel threatened... :)

-Rob

Congrats!

Congratulations on having achieved the Quest of the Holy Grail!

Congratulations, best wishes, and godspeed. Today a place to stand, tomorrow a faster vacuum pump, and by next Thursday your own one-cup coffee brewer with Kopi Luwak and junior faculty in the grinder. "8^>)

Congratulations! However, now that you're a member of "The Man," the real question is:

Do you have any connections in the English department?

w00t! Congratulations on your next 40 or so years.

Congrats Chad, and well deserved!

Congratulations!

Most excellent woo and also hoo!

Congratulations! Not surprising, but great news. Union did good.

As I told your wife: happyhappy joyjoy!

Congratulations.

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Waiting until February is nothing. In my tenure decision, I was told the news in early November, and then informed that it wouldn't really be official until July. That's many more chances of a major meteor strike, you know, and by the time the letter from the Big Guys came, I'd pretty much forgotten to care.

So, yeah, celebrate on your time, and bugger whatever schedule the bureaucrats are on.

That's terrific! I'm sure you more than deserve it! Congrats!

Congratulations!

Dude, that rocks! Hearty congratulations!

Awesome! Congrats!

Yay, Chad! That is most excellent news.

Dancing Rodents! (AKA Conga Rats)

Many happy congratulations!!!!

Nicely done, Chad, congrats!

Happy Holidays indeed!

Congrats!!!

Congratulations! Thanks for proving that bloggers can get tenure. And now I start my pre-tenure leave, to prepare for the wringer next fall.

Congrats. Now if you can avoid attractive female undergrads, you are SET! Job well done mate!

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Congratulations! Well-deserved!

Congratulations!!! I guess you are no longer on the tenure track.

(Like PZ above, I will also have to wait till July for my official confirmation...)

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

(professional lurker)

Followed the link from Scalzi to say Congratulations.

K

Congratulations!

You were amongst the first of us on rasfwr-j to earn your Doctorate (and coin the now-immmortal phrase, "That's *Dr* ____, to you, punk!"; among the first to earn a faculty position, and now among the first to earn tenure. Congrats again on yet another trailblazing moment. :-)

Congrats! Pretty sweet timing.

Congratulations. I'm so happy for you and Kate both. We're going to be at Boskone, let us take you out to dinner to celebrate. It may even be official by then....

MKK

Congratulations on your well-deserved tenure. I'll echo Mary Kay in hoping that it's official in time for Boskone celebrating.

Blogfather Scalzi said to come over here and whup a "Congrats" upside your head. I hear and obey.

Congratulations! Time to put that alarm clock where it really goes - the circular file.

Mazel Tov! It is weird how diffuse the process is. With your doctorate, you defend, people clap, and that's that. With tenure, you're told that later the board will do something so that at the start of the next fiscal year.... Anyway, congratulations again!

Most excellent well done !

Congrats Chad! That is awesome.

Congrats Chad! Kate too! Now go for that Nobel Prize...

Congratulations! What a great Christmas present.

Congrats!

Congratulations . . . PROFESSOR.

oh congratulations! well done!

Congratulations!

Wait, did someone say rasfwr-j?!
r-j!?!

Man, we better hope the trustees don't hear about this...

Enjoy the moment.

Wow.

That's awesome -- sometimes, the good guys do win....

Congratulations Chad!

Woooo!

Go, you!

Congrats!

Many happy returns!

Yahoo!! Next stop, sabbatical!!

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

I tried to tell KJ about it this morning, and had to resort to saying tenure untranslated. There's no such thing here, and no appropriate translation.

Hurrah! Congratulations! May you never have to do anything harder (except for stuff you enjoy).

Congratulations!

Yes! And, like everyone else, congratulations.

Woo!

Congratulations, Chad. Annette and I are thrilled for you.

Wahoo! Congratulations, Chad. Never had any doubts you'd get it, but what a terrific Christmas surprise!

Fuckin' aye!

Congrats, congrats, and more congrats after that.

Congratulations!

Let me be among the last to confer congratulations...:)

Mazel tov!

That's great news, Chad. Congrats!

He shoots! He scores! The crowd, it goes wild!

Congratulations!

Hmm, how long to one congratulations? Who knows, but here's one more.

Cool! Congrats, Chad.

Awesome! I expect to see some hard relaxation over the next few weeks in honor of your achievement.

Belated congrats to you, Chad.

Now you can begin seriously cultivating your eccentricities with little fear of reprisal!

So, you now change the blog name to Certain Principals?

Congratulations!

So, next step = Curmudgeon?

Great news! Congratulations!!!!!

Congratulations!

Congratulations! To pass along what a sweet old lady said at the conclusion of an acquaintance's defense, "Congratulations, Doctor. No sonofabitch can ever do that to you again."

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Tenure on the Facultyyyyyyyy

Congratulations!

All the best! Celebrate now - they can't take it away from you.

Sweet! Congratulations!

Many congrats, Chad!

The day after one of my committee members got tenure, I answered the phone in his lab, thus becoming the one who took the phone call that informed him that a university vehicle had just accidentally crushed his car in the faculty parking lot. Now, this fellow could get more than a little stressed out, so I waited for him to finish giving some instructions to a new student at the bench, and then broke the news to him. Instead of blowing up, though, he just smiled and said that he knew the university was well-enough insured to handle the problem.

That's when I knew what a big milestone tenure was! :-)

Congratulations!!! WOOHOO!!! I'll down a Kiltlifter for you when I'm in Arizona in a couple weeks.

So you get tenure and promoted to Associate at the same time? (I got promoted the next year.)

Congratulations.

Brings back the memories of my horrid experience on the subject at an Ivy League university. At the beginning of the winter semester which was supposed to be my first sabbatical after six years there, I got the horrible news in the mail, even though I had two and a half years left in the contract and I did not even know that they were voting on my case.

Hurray!

Hey, congrats!

Congratulations. And may The Cabal be with you.

Congratulations, Chad!

But just for safety's sake, wait until February to start coming into work in your pyjamas and telling people you would like to be known from now on as Madame Pompadour.

Congrats!

Woohoo!

Tonight's party has officially switched from a "Day That Ends in 'Y'" party to a "Chad has tenure" party.

Note: While the Party Purpose variable is quantized, our hypothesis is that discrete variations in P.P. will not lead to discernable variation in empirical results (i.e. degree of hangover on the OMFG scale).

Heh! Was there any doubt?

[ducks]

Congratulations! Party time now.

Is it horrible that the title of this post keeps on bringing to mind a horrrible Ace of Base song?

Four paws up!

Wow! Congrats, Chad!

So, now you're in on the seekrit konsp1raC to reestablish the Soviet Union in America that David Horowitz keeps talking about. Excellent news! Please send reports!

"Is it horrible that the title of this post keeps on bringing to mind a horrrible Ace of Base song?"

No. Being reminded of a Spice Girls song, OTOH...

Is it horrible that the title of this post keeps on bringing to mind a horrrible Ace of Base song?

For you, probably. Since I somehow managed to miss the whole Ace of Base thing, I have no problem with it.

I had in mind the recently acquired "All I Want" by the Weepies, part of the Christmas Tunes Experiment. While the actual title lack a "that," there's one in the chorus.

Many thanks to everyone who has commented. It's a kick to have so many people chiming in. And, hey, the first triple-digit comment thread on Uncertain Principles...

Congrats to you. It is quite an accomplishment. I just found out the good news about my own tenure and promotion. It will be a very nice Christmas for me too.

Congratulations.

That's wonderful! Congratulations, and may more success come you way.

Congratulations!
Now you can blog all that nasty stuff and finally start working on the alien-warp-drive you always wanted to build ...

A Big Old British Congratulations and Merry Christmas! (I was tipped off by Kevin Drum of all people).

Hello. Your friend John Scalzi said to congratulate you on your tenure. So congratulations on getting your tenure!!
I'm not particularly sure what tenure is. I know it's pretty prestigious, I learned that from ER.
Anyway, that just proves I watch too much TV.
Congrats again on tenure!