scholarly pursuits
Do dooo....I'm a lj slacker.
I'll spare you from a detailed account of the last couple of months, suffice to say they have been somewhat busy, and I was in Australia for 2 weeks.
It's almost the end of the [my last real one as an MA student] semester, so I'm finishing up a paper on medieval feminism. My topics keep getting weirder the less applicable the class is to medieval things. I'm also trying to meet a self-imposed thesis deadline of having 1 complete draft done by the end of the semester. I just went to see the manuscript I'm working on for the first time in person, and I think I've made some good observations on which to base my last chapter. It feels like it will never be done, but I suppose I'm making progress.
The latest news is that I've been offered the opportunity to move to Paris for 3-4 months next year to do an internship with a medieval manuscript gallery there, and I have to say I'm completely enchanted with the idea. I'm still working on a way to make it financially feasible, but I think that it has to happen. It's just too good not to take it. So hopefully by this time next year "I'm poor but at least I live in Manhattan," will become "I'm really poor but at least I live in Paris."
Also finalizing a list of doctoral programs I'm applying to. I should start contacting professors soon and doing campus visits, taking the GRE, and start my actual application materials. Very exciting, I have to say. Anyway, things are happening and yay. Life feels very medieval lately, but in the good way, not in the plague-y sort of way.
I'll spare you from a detailed account of the last couple of months, suffice to say they have been somewhat busy, and I was in Australia for 2 weeks.
It's almost the end of the [my last real one as an MA student] semester, so I'm finishing up a paper on medieval feminism. My topics keep getting weirder the less applicable the class is to medieval things. I'm also trying to meet a self-imposed thesis deadline of having 1 complete draft done by the end of the semester. I just went to see the manuscript I'm working on for the first time in person, and I think I've made some good observations on which to base my last chapter. It feels like it will never be done, but I suppose I'm making progress.
The latest news is that I've been offered the opportunity to move to Paris for 3-4 months next year to do an internship with a medieval manuscript gallery there, and I have to say I'm completely enchanted with the idea. I'm still working on a way to make it financially feasible, but I think that it has to happen. It's just too good not to take it. So hopefully by this time next year "I'm poor but at least I live in Manhattan," will become "I'm really poor but at least I live in Paris."
Also finalizing a list of doctoral programs I'm applying to. I should start contacting professors soon and doing campus visits, taking the GRE, and start my actual application materials. Very exciting, I have to say. Anyway, things are happening and yay. Life feels very medieval lately, but in the good way, not in the plague-y sort of way.