After mass, I went to lunch with the adult education coordinator of the parish (St. Elizabeth’s, Glencoe — which always makes me think of Scotland’s infamous massacre) that’s invited me out to talk about The DaVinci Code. She and I traded ideas about the panel discussion, which includes Prof. Barbara Newman of Northwestern University and Brian Hastings of Church of Our Savior, over an Indian buffet. She’s rather more sympathetic to Gnosticism than I am, but we held a lively and wide-ranging converstion. It sounds as though the church will be packed; she’s estimating three to four hundred people will attend, overflowing the sanctuary and spilling into an adjacent parish room. If you’re coming, come early, I guess.
When I got back to my office, the Dean rang me up; the Board of Trustees had voted to promote me to full Professor. It sounded as though he said “effective immediately,” but I got lost in a jumble of subsequent topics. To be on the safe side, you may kneel and call me “Full Professor Adam” when you address me.
Then, alas! I had to drop Margaret off on the train. Pip did her Halloween bit, Si is off at a (church) all-night lock-in, and I’m exhausted. I didn’t sleep well last night; tonight, I’m about to crumple altogether.
Posted by AKMA at October 31, 2003 11:07 PM | TrackBackCongratulations! I guess that makes you FPAKMA, effective immediately. Is it also part of full professorial etiquette that men bow and women curtsey before kneeling to address you?
Posted by: Jonathon Delacour at November 1, 2003 12:25 AMCongratulations, AKMA!
I too have just been promoted this week. This is even more good news on top of news that both of the best men at our wedding three years ago (yes, "both" ; I'm never one to do things in halves), also received their good news this week, one got the thumbs up after 6 months of chemo and radiotherapy after being diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease, and the other got a job 6 months after being made redundant.
Congratulations from Fiona, Cameron & me.
Posted by: Gary Turner at November 1, 2003 03:24 AMCONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i'm SO excited (did i mention SOOOOO excited?????)!!!!!!!
i will happily bow....and i would think that each person should get the choice to bow OR curtsey - it is SWTS afterall. though, do you have to wear a skirt to curtsey? and if you're wearing a cassock, must you curtsey?
anyway...off the point - CONGRATS!
Posted by: Heather at November 1, 2003 05:21 AMOh, my! Hearty congratulations to you.
Posted by: Krista at November 1, 2003 07:05 AMCongratulations, Full Professor!
Although I am not even bowing, though of all people you must surely understand.
Have you made top blogdex with this news yet?
Wow. Go you. Is there a ring to kiss?
Posted by: Dorothea Salo at November 1, 2003 09:21 AMCongratulations! I guess we wait until the next trustees meeting for your inauguration.
Posted by: Wes at November 1, 2003 11:21 AMYou rock. This rocks. Getting a full professorship rocks. I'm having a minor problem with the "fp" designator... does this mean I have to type my full name from now on so as not to be cornfused with the FP?
Congratulations AKMA. I hope you never trade it in for the administrivium.
Posted by: Frank Paynter at November 1, 2003 12:22 PMMazel tov, AKMA. I'm so glad it's worked out. :)
Posted by: Naomi Chana at November 1, 2003 01:10 PMCongratulations! What do you suppose the equivalent would be at the Disseminary?
Blessings,
Mary
Full Professor AKMA -- you are certainly heads above those profs, ranked or unranked, who are full of it.
I assume your random thoughts will now take on an additional patina of ... deep insights.
Congrats!
Posted by: Don Temples at November 1, 2003 05:27 PMCongratulations on the promotion, AKMA. Clearly it was well-deserved!
Posted by: Chris Tessone at November 1, 2003 06:55 PMAKMA = How totally cool! Jackson and I are on the floor playing Candyland in Espanol to practice his colors -- so we send a big hello and Congrats and Muy Benito!
Halley
Posted by: Halley at November 1, 2003 07:25 PMWoohoo! Justice!
Posted by: David Weinberger at November 1, 2003 08:15 PMDoes this mean we have to treat you with respect now? I mean, I just got used to giving lip to a man who teaches at a seminary, and now you're a full professor and everything and I'm going to feel all oogie and uncomfortable giving you lip now.
Well, for a minute or two.
Congrats, full professor AKMA -- well deserved. Kick butt.
(Can I say things like 'kick butt' to a full professor at a seminary? I mean, I'm not going to wake up tomorrow with boils on my butt or anything, am I?)
((Darn, I said butt again.))
I am soooo glad the rubrics you provided included the word 'may' before the kneel and address you as 'Full Professor Adam' .... so Heather, he did give us all choices!! Rubrics, 'ya gotta luv'm' I was thinking about perhaps some nard poured over his head and the kissing of hands (too awkward to get to the feet). Congratulations AKMA!!!
Posted by: Jill at November 1, 2003 11:16 PMDid you get my comment yesterday? I don't see it along with the others. Of course I was congratulating you on your new title. I also emailed you last night about something else. Hope you get both this and that! NTA
Posted by: NTA at November 2, 2003 07:01 AMWahoo!
'bout time.
Congratulations. I am kneeling as I am typing this in your honor!
Posted by: Jordon Cooper at November 2, 2003 07:32 AMWoohoo! That's wonderful news, AKMA. Congratulations!
Posted by: Liz at November 2, 2003 09:39 AMYour shuffleboard skills were clearly the clincher. =) Congrats!
Posted by: Denise Howell at November 2, 2003 12:04 PMHurray, Professor Akma! And congratulations to your future students...they're in luck.
Posted by: Betsy Devine at November 2, 2003 06:47 PMCongratulations, FPAKMA!!
Posted by: Seb at November 3, 2003 07:26 AMWOW! Huge congratulations to you, AKMA! I'm so pleased!
When is the party?
Posted by: Dave Rogers (C&E) at November 3, 2003 11:55 AMLet's abbriviate the acronym suitable for a full professor who runs a Disseminary:
FTP="Fully Tenured Professor"
Congrats
Posted by: Chris Corrigan at November 3, 2003 12:21 PMRaucus cheering down here in the Land of Cotton!!!!
Only one drawback: now Heather and I have to shelve all those lovely plans for creative mayhem we were forming, on the off-chance the Trustees didn't come through. Oh, well-- we'll just have to find another outlet. ;-)
Posted by: Jane Ellen at November 3, 2003 12:58 PMso happy for you AKMA! and the whole tribe. excellent news, which, being a little (???) slow these days, I just got. HYPERKUDOS!
Posted by: RaggedBoy at November 4, 2003 01:29 AMI'm just as slow as my raggedy-ass spiritual adviser above (who alerted me to your summons to high office), and am just as knocked out by the news. You've touched all sides, all people and been every which way with us, Prof. (heh...), and you've not wavered. It's about time the world settled down and gave you back some. I'm enormously pleased it finally has. We know we can't thank you adequately for what you and Margaret have given us over the past couple of years, so we won't. You'll just have to make do with tenure as our Herr Professor Doktor Blogging Chaplain... Mind you, such a position is a damned side more prestigious than a run-of-the-mill professorship, but I guess only we know that and the pay's not so hot so... ah well, there you go. Yes, I'm delighted.
Posted by: Mike Golby at November 4, 2003 07:10 AMAnd even the Crone surfaces from her self-imposed (temporary) exile to wish "Sto Lat" to the new FP. (If we capitalize it,we won't confuse it with the oldie but goodie fp.)
Posted by: Elaine of Kalilily at November 4, 2003 07:36 AMCongrats ... Did you like the DaVince Code? I've got it on hold at the local lib. I hear it's a lot of fun.
Posted by: Steve Menshenfriend at November 4, 2003 12:24 PMCongratulations!! It is a long road in academe and this is by no means the end -- there are wonders yet of which to dream.
Holly
Posted by: Holly McIntyre at November 4, 2003 03:06 PMCongratulations :-)
Posted by: Arni at November 6, 2003 04:14 AMOh! Many congratulations! (You /would/ post that while I was on a huge long journey!) So I guess this means you'll be staying put...
Posted by: Simon Phipps at November 7, 2003 11:53 PMHad my head down and missed this when you posted it. CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Levitation is in order. :)
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Posted by: Amie at January 12, 2004 11:14 PM