Things I would rather do today than read Foucault and/or D.A. Miller ( Read more... )

I am looking for my sense of humor.  It might be under the pile of clothes sitting on the trunk at the foot of the bed.  Or under the wilting lettuce in my refrigerator, or inside the sweet potatoes I haven't had the energy to do anything with while I have been failing to cook for the last two weeks.  Maybe it is encrypted somewhere in the emails I ( Read more... )

You work on your syllabus and course calendar for the semester instead! It's totally legitimate work, since the semester starts in two weeks. Nobody except yourself will be upset with you if you don't have your prospectus ready to turn into someone by some arbitrary, self-set date, but the department AND your students will be most put out if you ( Read more... )

This week was an almost unqualified success for me in terms of producing dissertation writing. I say "almost" because a) my focus was pretty shot by the end of yesterday and b) a variety of factors contributed to me being tragically underslept last night, leading to almost zero substantive revision work during the first work session of this ( Read more... )

1) This weekend I went back to ballet class and took about 3/4 of barre on both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday made 3 months, almost to the day, since I fell. My foot was tired and a little achey after class both days, but clearly not re-injured or inflamed or anything like that.

2) All this week I am on a dissertation writing retreat with desiringsubject and srl. ( Read more... )

I've had the idea for what I've wanted to write my dissertation on practically forever--at least since my second year of grad school. But as I work on the research for my prospectus, and as I have conversations with various faculty members and people in the field, I realize I might make myself more marketable for future jobs if I write a more ( Read more... )

Things never to do:
Email the tutor you want to meet with, who is making EXTRA HOURS in her tutoring schedule to work with you, to ask if your boyfriend can come in to get your paper looked at. No, I am not going to tell your SO what you need to "fix" about your paper, tutoring is a collaborative process and, more importantly, you have to take ( Read more... )

From moominmolly, and others: These are apparently the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. I've bolded the ones I've actually read. I've italicized ones I have started but not finished, or read only abridged versions of. I will both bold AND italicize books here I've read more than once. Let's see how much being a grad ( Read more... )

It's all over and I am now ABD ( Read more... )

As you may or may not know, in addition to my teaching I have taken on a second job this year tutoring first-year writing through the Academic Resource Center at school. It's a job that I love and have found incredibly rewarding. I'm scheduled for 7 hours per week, almost all of which were booked every week last semester. This semester has ( Read more... )