This month. This fucking month ( Read more... )

Apparently I can only do bulletpoint lists anymore.

• A month in the new place and I absolutely love it except that our fucking AC keeps breaking. Two times in one month, and when the tech finally came out yesterday I swear to God, he made it worse. We had to turn it off and open all the windows. It's warm in here now but it would be anyway and at ( Read more... )

So it's been a week.

• I got sick. I got sick five days before my proposal defense. It started out as a cold and has since become a cough persistent enough and severe enough that I've only slept a few hours over the past few nights. Today I finally called the doctor and got an inhaler and some stuff with codeine in. Nothing else has worked, and if ( Read more... )

My dad wrote me a pre-dissertation proposal defense poem.

Good luck, my little love!
My sweet child
Whose diapers I changed
On my office table
When I was a young
Professor.

excuse me I have something in my eye

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Sending the proposal draft to my committee is imminent. The proposal defense is imminent ( Read more... )

Okay so where I'm at now is that I need like five or six major things to all come together simultaneously in the way I want them to within the next three weeks. If they can do that for me I'll be golden except I'll then have three papers and the dissertation and three books and this piece on gaming for The New Inquiry to work on over the summer ( Read more... )

The semester is... technically done? I guess? Not exactly technically; I still have to turn in final grades. But all the other stuff is in, with the exception of a few stragglers. So far I've had minimal bitching about grades. Grading 60 7-10 page papers in less than 48 hours wasn't as painful as I was afraid it would be. I'm dealing ( Read more... )

I finished the first part of my dissertation proposal draft thing. I still have no idea if this is actually going to be my dissertation proposal, but I'm treating it as though it is. I think it's cool; I'm basically taking social movement scholarship and going HEY GUYS MAYBE WE SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO EMOTION HERE and... well, we'll see what my ( Read more... )