ONWARD: The Next Post
Since I think that WorkAndPlay pretty much sums up my life (in all it's balance and disbalance) I'll stick with the theme. So this will be a post in two chapters.
1. WORK:
I have been WRITING. Or rather, I have been making more or less successful attempts at writing.
Now that I am in a PhD programme I am forced to face what is well known as the "Dissertation Crisis." I thought that was just a bullshit horror story that professors use to scare overly enthusiastic undergrads. But I have been staring into the face of that ugly beast for quite a while now. It took a few intensive crying sessions, a complete revision of my research plan, a few months of writer's block and a total change of overall perspective on pretty much everything under the sun for me to be convinced that The Beast is real.
Lately I have somewhat regained focus on the writing process, which isn't to say that it's progressing in any satisfying way. But it's progressing. I am reading like a fiend and writing like a crippled fiend. For now that will have to do.
In any case, my efforts so far have guaranteed me a spot here in Ljubljana until next September. That means that I have some space to breathe and think.
2. PLAY
Sunday is Zori's birthday, so I have been holding back on the "play" part of life for a while now. I am sure that Sunday's party will pretty much render me incapacitated for a few days, so I'm taking it easy and trying to finish the paper I'm working on before the hangover kicks in.
She is celebrating her birthday together with her friend Sneža at Klub K4, and there's a pretty good chance of Slovenia's most fabulous MTF superstar turning up, as her birthday was today. A triple birthday at K4 spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E, but trouble of the most fabulous kind. So I'm excited.
Updates to follow after either work or play have produced something worth mentioning. Whichever comes first.
1. WORK:
I have been WRITING. Or rather, I have been making more or less successful attempts at writing.
Now that I am in a PhD programme I am forced to face what is well known as the "Dissertation Crisis." I thought that was just a bullshit horror story that professors use to scare overly enthusiastic undergrads. But I have been staring into the face of that ugly beast for quite a while now. It took a few intensive crying sessions, a complete revision of my research plan, a few months of writer's block and a total change of overall perspective on pretty much everything under the sun for me to be convinced that The Beast is real.
Lately I have somewhat regained focus on the writing process, which isn't to say that it's progressing in any satisfying way. But it's progressing. I am reading like a fiend and writing like a crippled fiend. For now that will have to do.
In any case, my efforts so far have guaranteed me a spot here in Ljubljana until next September. That means that I have some space to breathe and think.
2. PLAY
Sunday is Zori's birthday, so I have been holding back on the "play" part of life for a while now. I am sure that Sunday's party will pretty much render me incapacitated for a few days, so I'm taking it easy and trying to finish the paper I'm working on before the hangover kicks in.
She is celebrating her birthday together with her friend Sneža at Klub K4, and there's a pretty good chance of Slovenia's most fabulous MTF superstar turning up, as her birthday was today. A triple birthday at K4 spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E, but trouble of the most fabulous kind. So I'm excited.
Updates to follow after either work or play have produced something worth mentioning. Whichever comes first.