resurfacing, sort of
I am alive, I've just been going through a difficult and busy patch with my thesis lately. Pretty much everything I do has this undercurrent of "how on earth am I going to finish this degree and what the hell am I going to be able to do with it once I have?" My brain is constantly occupied with thoughts of cv building and publication and conferences and getting the right teaching experience, and I stare despondently at jobs.ac.uk with worrying regularity. It doesn't help that over the last 6 months or so I've done a lot of work and got very little feedback; I find it hard to get motivated without encouragement and validation :/
Beautiful weather, and being able to unwind watching my two favourite sporting competitions unfold, are helping me stay afloat, and I'm doing a lot of cooking and swimming and walking, but essentially I'm in a place where some things are stressing me out more than they normally would, and posting on this lj is one of those things.
So, I'm going to half-heartedly hiatus. I'm still reading my flist regularly, and I'm going to make more of an effort to reach out and comment on people's posts and fic again, but I'm not going to put pressure on myself to update this journal with any regularity for the next while.
In the meantime, though, if anyone fancies a chat about:
- the World Cup
- Doctor Who
- Glee
- pokeymans
- Little King's Story
- Kuroshitsuji
- gay lawyers (I still love them, I do!)
- meta-y academic-y things
- the paper on slash and queer theory I presented at a conference at the weekend
or anything you like, really, then I'll be around to reply to comments on this post as much as possible.
Beautiful weather, and being able to unwind watching my two favourite sporting competitions unfold, are helping me stay afloat, and I'm doing a lot of cooking and swimming and walking, but essentially I'm in a place where some things are stressing me out more than they normally would, and posting on this lj is one of those things.
So, I'm going to half-heartedly hiatus. I'm still reading my flist regularly, and I'm going to make more of an effort to reach out and comment on people's posts and fic again, but I'm not going to put pressure on myself to update this journal with any regularity for the next while.
In the meantime, though, if anyone fancies a chat about:
- the World Cup
- Doctor Who
- Glee
- pokeymans
- Little King's Story
- Kuroshitsuji
- gay lawyers (I still love them, I do!)
- meta-y academic-y things
- the paper on slash and queer theory I presented at a conference at the weekend
or anything you like, really, then I'll be around to reply to comments on this post as much as possible.