Dollars and Sense

So I have begun my research about professor salaries across the nation. Check out the website salary.com to find out about salaries for a multitude of different occupations all over the country.

For associate professors in the liberal arts in southern Cal, the average salary is (brace yourselves), $65,013! In northern Cal, the figure is only slightly higher (65,801). I then wondered what the difference would be in New York. Well, an assocate prof. in English receives on average $65,930.

BTW, for full professors, the figure goes up to about $83,037 (again, on average).

I don't know what this means in terms of me buying a home :-(

I have heard of people receiving very nice research stipends, and even help on the purchase of a home.

Maybe I will have to begin selling some books!

Black Ties, Black People

I had the opportunity to go to a black tie event over the weekend. The sponsors were an organization of professional Black men my bro-in-law (below) recently joined.


Admittedly, I was skeptical, less about elite Black organizations, but more about the possibilities of meeting single, tall, political, professional, and Christian Black men who date Black women. Maybe Christian should have appeared at the top of the list... At any rate, I figured that I would enjoy the opportunity to get dressed up. After reading Brunsli's blog and looking at the salary base for associate professors in liberal arts, (more on that later), I had begun to contemplate switiching to law school!


Anyway, I also greatly enjoyed getting dolled up with my beautiful sisters. We are a natural hair family, none of us (and there are many) have permed hair. Although we are still trying to get this one (below) to sisterlock, she still looked stunning with this gorgeous upsweep.


My other sis is new to the SL family. She looks regal with her curly, baby SLs. I'm so jealous of how full her hair already is!