Just barely, at least. Now that I have a full time job, I feel like I have precious little to write about, or that there's little I can muster the energy to write about. Or, I'll mentally write posts on the commute to work, but as there's no magical brain-internet hookup yet, the posts never make it to the screen. So in an effort to get back into ( Read more... )

So now I have officially graduated! After three commencement ceremonies, I am all commenced out. Some notes about commencements:

• OMG general commencement was never ending. NEVER ENDING. Turns out reading 2400 students' names takes a long time. About an hour and forty-five minutes worth of time. That's what I get for going to big public university.
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I have completed the last final exam of my undergraduate college career! On Sunday (and Monday, and Tuesday. yay multiple commencements), I graduate! I am excited and terrified for post-college, ostensibly adult life ( Read more... )

Ugh, I really need to get to work on my policy brief. Like, really really. It needs to be seven pages long and I have a grand total of one sentence (that I'm probably going to delete) written. Plus side, I'm writing on something I'm knowledgeable about, and that I won't have to do much outside research for: the prospects of nation-building in ( Read more... )

AHAHAHAHA. IT IS FINISHED. I HAVE TURNED IT IN, AND WASHED MY HANDS OF IT, AND I AM VICTORIOUS. Pretty sure it's shit towards the end there, but OMG I DO NOT CARE ( Read more... )

Today was a difficult, enraging, amazing, humbling, heartbreaking, loving day in FemSex. On the heels of our unit on violence against women, today's class was about sharing our stories related to that. We all met at a classmate's apartment.  I brought tea for everyone, and we had cake and fruit, and we sat through the silences and the tears to hear ( Read more... )

We have reached the part of hell week/finals where I am miserable and taking awful care of myself. I just had dinner after forgetting about it for a few hours, and I didn't even finish my gigantic bowl of stir fry. My thesis is sprawling like some sort of mutant ungainly child, and I can't even contemplate the policy brief and Persian essay I have ( Read more... )

Life continues apace, my thesis writing grinds on, and spring has finally sprung. I went to see a coworker friend's dance performance with some other friends today. There were a few pieces that were...avant-garde, to say the least. Like, there were times when we were just sitting there going, "I don't even know what's happening here." With one of ( Read more... )

I feel like I should be panicking about my thesis more than I am. But I've got 21ish pages done already, just two major sections to finish, and a bit of last minute research to do/compile before I've got a passable rough draft. I'm feeling fairly confident in my ability to finish all of that up in three days time, especially since it's the only ( Read more... )

This is a post to get my writing juices flowing. Or at least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. I'll get back to my thesis in a bit: I plan on getting at least six pages/1800ish words in today. Then sometime tomorrow or Wednesday I need to head back to the GTU for some last minute research, aka "shit, I knew I should have taken notes on that ( Read more... )