so I'm now done with the coursework part of my ma. next step: thesis. meaning my summer will be all joyce, all the time. please note, despite being done with final papers, my desk looks like my icon times roughly 5. however, as this semester was all things generally outside my own interests (e.g. cold war, victorian, and early american, though I'm *still* engaged in debate over whether I should be an early americanist instead of a modernist), it'll be nice to get back into my own research interests on a full-time basis. but so in spite of having a metric fuckton of thesis work in front of me, a bunch of family-related things have come up. true story: as I attempted to sleep in after finishing the last of my papers, I had no fewer than 4 relatives call wanting to know when I was coming home for party/event x. so I'll be back in philly sometime next week and staying through memorial day weekend should anyone want to get together and help me vent about my continued descent into certain fandoms (I'm looking at you,
parelle).