The scenery is all the same to me, nothing has changed or faded

Fresh and carefully considered application off and, presumably, being delivered, both electronically and physically. The fellow at the Post Office pointed out how the Global Express envelope cannot be tampered with -- it's a reasonably solid plastic bag, with a separate plastic skeleton on the opening which locks into place, so that the only really good way to open it is to rip it open. That should serve as an intimidating barrier against anyone who wants to stop what is mostly a bid for closer attention. Granted, though, I haven't yet received confirmation that they have my electronic submission, but that may be forthcoming.

Also in the physical submission I included a picture, which was not explicitly asked for, but which I know was on their old application form. I would have included it in my electronic submission, but in the rush to make sure I wasn't overlooking something important like my research statement or teaching philosophy I forgot to include it, and now I don't know that there's a graceful way to send it as a follow-up given that they don't actually explicitly ask for it. Furthermore, I thought I had discovered a guide to the university's teaching philosophy for its online courses which would let me tailor my statement of philosophy to more closely match theirs, but I discovered that I had accidentally stumbled across a document for a school with the same initials but a United States rather than Singaporean address. Well, I expressed my views honestly and at least I'm close to somebody's ideals.

Meanwhile, remember that half-rejection mentioned recently? Where the school said they had sent out notices for their first round of interviews? They sent a follow-up, that they had now interviewed all the first round and considered that the search is no longer considered open. They explained this in an e-mail sent to 141 applicants, and explained they had selected the top five of over 145 applications received, so I suppose that (first) I know now that they received 146 applications for this position, and (second) I have a long alphabetized list of people with whom to commiserate. None of the names stand out as ones I recognize, but that's not really definitive. At least they answered.

Trivia: In February 1231 Pope Gregory IX published Excommunicamus, producing detailed legislation for the treatment of heretics -- including the denial of the right of appeal, the denial of the right to defense by a lawyer, and the exhumation of unpunished heretics. Source: Ideas: A History From Fire to Freud, Peter Watson.

Currently Reading: Autumn Angels, Arthur Byron Cover. Finished off, at last, and I might have started talking about it here except my work-related whining took up too much space to give it proper attention.