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I keep telling myself to update this more, because I made this journal in order to make some kind of a record of my mental processes and interests and worries and fears and enthusiasms about life. So far, I've failed at that, I think because I have the idea it's only worth writing long things and little notes are a waste of time.
Has anyone got advice about that kinda thing? Other than "get an actual diary and don't spew your interests over the internet", because, well, I like reading other people's blogs even (maybe especially) when they're trivial, so I'm going to assume that's true for at least some other people and that some of those might one day end up reading this.
In other news, I'm fretting about what to do after leaving uni at the end of the coming academic year. Things I feel potentially interested in are:
-doing more academic learnings: publishing? studying languages?
-doing the kind of Serious Academic Learning that could turn me into a career academic: there is a 6-year course in Comparative Literatures at Yale that makes me feel gleeful at the prospect of lectures because it sounds just that awesome.
-getting a job in a bookshop.
-working to earn money doing something practical.
-teaching TEFL
-doing art or creative writing, either as a taught subject at a college somewhere.
And various others. Thinking seriously about such things is scary but also enthusiasm-inspiring, because I love elements of the course I'm doing at Cambridge but I've felt a lot of stress and claustrophobia in that university.
Has anyone got advice about that kinda thing? Other than "get an actual diary and don't spew your interests over the internet", because, well, I like reading other people's blogs even (maybe especially) when they're trivial, so I'm going to assume that's true for at least some other people and that some of those might one day end up reading this.
In other news, I'm fretting about what to do after leaving uni at the end of the coming academic year. Things I feel potentially interested in are:
-doing more academic learnings: publishing? studying languages?
-doing the kind of Serious Academic Learning that could turn me into a career academic: there is a 6-year course in Comparative Literatures at Yale that makes me feel gleeful at the prospect of lectures because it sounds just that awesome.
-getting a job in a bookshop.
-working to earn money doing something practical.
-teaching TEFL
-doing art or creative writing, either as a taught subject at a college somewhere.
And various others. Thinking seriously about such things is scary but also enthusiasm-inspiring, because I love elements of the course I'm doing at Cambridge but I've felt a lot of stress and claustrophobia in that university.