Woo-hoo!

Today I am a Professor!

I am quite unreasonably excited by this. I realise that, for the most part, this makes no difference at all. My job remains largely unchanged: teach, research, collaborate outside HE, admin.

But it does feel like quite an important day. I've been targeting reaching the rank of Professor since I was doing my PhD. I finished that in 2005, so it's fair to say that this has been a goal for at least 13 years. It's really nice to realise a goal like that.

Anyway, there are lots of Professors in the world, so I'm far from unique, and, I know, it doesn't actually matter in the grand scheme of things. Nonetheless, I achieved something that I set out to 13 years ago, and this pleases me.