Because all the cool kids are doing it....
day 1: hopes, dreams, and plans for the next 365 days with a picture of yourself
Wow hopes and dreams, we are starting off with the easy stuff aren't we?
I would say primary in the hopes and dreams category is successfully completing my PhD - it is a bit of an all consuming process. I want to be able to make a difference, to make some grassroots efforts and to contribute through some knowledge production. I also look forward to being a professor. The PhD process is exhausting, and trying, and at time very hard on your sense of self worth, but I think it is worth it.
These days I also think having a family might be in the future, though I tend to be ambivalent on that front.
I suppose my biggest hope/dream is to spend my life with Eric and to spend it well. To make a difference in the world the best way I can. To make an impact in little ways as much as in big dreams of social movements and boo writing. Maybe the best way we can all hope and dream and make an impact is through small acts of kindness and in building relationships well.
For the next 365 days?
Well, On the school front, in the immediate time period i have a review to get through (eek) and grades should be posting any day now. I need to work on evolving my writing skills - shaping them into the style that my department expects. The next year is also the year I work on writing field papers and taking my orals so I can be ABD - All But Dissertation.
I also need to secure an internship in an area related to science, medicine or science education sometime in the next 365.
Eric will be starting his graduate program in the fall so this year we figure out how to live as two graduate students.
As for the summer I have some goals:
A reading list
Reduce caffeine consumption to two cups a day! Kick the soda habit - this one is going to be hard.
I also plan on body project of sorts. I refuse to engage in intentional weight loss, but I am planning to try out living according to HAES - that is Health At Every Size. So I plan on spending time focusing on the proven indicators of health. Moving more, eating intuitively and with great variety - seeing what makes my body feel good, reducing my caffeine intake, stress management. So it is a summer of health - and true to the HAES model I will trust my body to find its own healthy set weight. If that means I lose - I lose. If I don't but I am healthy and happy in my body than that is great to. My engagement with Fat Activism has been so good for me in being at peace with my body as it is.
Work on writing. This means I will be working on academic writing and also just increasing the amount I write. For such an important skill it is shocking how little I practice.
Last, I want to get prepared for TAing in the fall. Get my student resources together that sort of thing.
Oh - and have fun!! Use that zoo membership, see people I love, do some beading and knitting.
Wow hopes and dreams, we are starting off with the easy stuff aren't we?
I would say primary in the hopes and dreams category is successfully completing my PhD - it is a bit of an all consuming process. I want to be able to make a difference, to make some grassroots efforts and to contribute through some knowledge production. I also look forward to being a professor. The PhD process is exhausting, and trying, and at time very hard on your sense of self worth, but I think it is worth it.
These days I also think having a family might be in the future, though I tend to be ambivalent on that front.
I suppose my biggest hope/dream is to spend my life with Eric and to spend it well. To make a difference in the world the best way I can. To make an impact in little ways as much as in big dreams of social movements and boo writing. Maybe the best way we can all hope and dream and make an impact is through small acts of kindness and in building relationships well.
For the next 365 days?
Well, On the school front, in the immediate time period i have a review to get through (eek) and grades should be posting any day now. I need to work on evolving my writing skills - shaping them into the style that my department expects. The next year is also the year I work on writing field papers and taking my orals so I can be ABD - All But Dissertation.
I also need to secure an internship in an area related to science, medicine or science education sometime in the next 365.
Eric will be starting his graduate program in the fall so this year we figure out how to live as two graduate students.
As for the summer I have some goals:
A reading list
Reduce caffeine consumption to two cups a day! Kick the soda habit - this one is going to be hard.
I also plan on body project of sorts. I refuse to engage in intentional weight loss, but I am planning to try out living according to HAES - that is Health At Every Size. So I plan on spending time focusing on the proven indicators of health. Moving more, eating intuitively and with great variety - seeing what makes my body feel good, reducing my caffeine intake, stress management. So it is a summer of health - and true to the HAES model I will trust my body to find its own healthy set weight. If that means I lose - I lose. If I don't but I am healthy and happy in my body than that is great to. My engagement with Fat Activism has been so good for me in being at peace with my body as it is.
Work on writing. This means I will be working on academic writing and also just increasing the amount I write. For such an important skill it is shocking how little I practice.
Last, I want to get prepared for TAing in the fall. Get my student resources together that sort of thing.
Oh - and have fun!! Use that zoo membership, see people I love, do some beading and knitting.