Three exclamation marks probably aren’t warranted, but good news nonetheless. I just got informed that the relevant university level tenure committees approved my tenure case. Now it’s only got to go through the Board of Trustees. Unfortunately the Board won’t look at cases of people without green cards. And my green card is at least 3 years into the future. So unless Cornell changes policy on giving tenure to non-resident aliens, I’m still officially untenured for three years at least. But short of coming out for Osama bin Laden it’s hard to imagine the trustees would turn the case down when (and if) it comes up.

That’s at least one thing to be happy about for today. Hopefully Bronson Arroyo, John Kerry and Mark Latham can make it four things by the end of the (long) evening.

*UPDATE 1:* Go Sox!!!! Onto the ALCS!!!!!