job talk-take I

My seminar and interviews for promotion here seem to have gone really well so far. I have a few more interviews still to go, but everyone has been very upbeat and really positive. I have been dreading how some people in my department would react to the possibility of my promotion, because I admit to not having been as involved as a could have been with the department as a whole and having felt some negative vibes. But no one has really been at all negative and I have found many of them to be really supportive.

So now I need to prepare for round II.

Band Honors

JP's band swept many honors and awards at a tri-state championship competition. They qualified for the competition by their performances in previous competitions.

Soccer season ends

JP's soccer team got bounced from the tournament in one game. He was away on his band trip, but we heard it wasn't pretty. There's always next year...

Kids Marathon

One of the highlights of the athletic calender for the fitness community in Middle TN is the CM Marathon. Kids in the region can participate thru their schools and YMCAs in what is called the kids marathon. In the five weeks proceeding the adult race, they run a mile a day for 25 days and then on the night before the real marathon, they get to run their final mile by school grade along the route of the real marathon to the finish line and get a finishing medal, etc...


JA participated this year and here is some action footage

Spring Time in 10ac

A River Runs Thru It


Wishful Thinking


Red Popcorn Popping


People Who Live in Glass Houses

...and again

JP scored two goals in this game. They won this game easily. So they are back above 0.500. Need to get it all together for the upcoming playoffs.

A Missed Opportunity...

He shoots, he scores.

JP's team fell behind 4-1 to a rival school in a blazing fast opening half of soccer.

They seem to be unable to come up with a good defensive scheme to match a blitzkrieg offensive scheme being used by the better schools that utilize fast strikers being fed the ball on crosses from the wing with the strikers simply outrunning the full backs and leading to open shots on goal.

Late in the second half, the Birds were at least able to get the ball upfield, and when the ball got deflected from a bit of a scrum, Jonathan was able to get in mighty boot that cleared the defenders and went through the outstretched goalie for a nice goal.

They scored again shortly after and it was a race against time.

Unfortunately they were not able to score again and they lost 4-3.

(At least they didn't miss miss 4 straight free throws to lose the national championship.
Although of course it was ten years ago yesterday that we were 5 minutes from glory and couldn't find quite enough in the tank to hold on...still that season was one of my greatest memories of our time in Utah. Sadly I'm submitting an application for a position at UK. Not sure how I can live with myself.)