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I just wrote an extended precis of my proposed Alice in Wonderland course for next semester, to send to a friend in the department who's going to look it over before I present it to the acting dean. Infuriatingly, someone else is offering to teach two different seminars on that level, because "it will help her on the job market" --grrrr. I may be a year further away from the job market, but it's unfair if I can't have a shot at *finally* teaching a course in my field, after endless surveys and composition courses, and cheerfully teaching ancient lit and 20th century lit and whatever's needed.

Now that I've given a lovingly detailed unit-by-unit summary of everything we'd address in the course, I find it will break my heart if I don't have the chance to teach it.

But, oh, how exciting if I can!!!