Hey peeps.  Shit went down the drain.  Long story short, I am no longer in grad school. I've decided this is not the place I should be in and that I've chosen to make the difficult decision of moving on; while I will technically be on leave, I find it unlikely for things to change enough to convince me to return at the end of the year. As it stands ( Read more... )

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Rule 32:  Enjoy the little things- ZombielandWell, this is it: my short stay in Bloomington has come to an end.  My bags were packed.  Once I woke up in the morning, the dream ended.  I had a good time that involved visiting friends old and new, lots of flirting, a handcrafted Christmas penis ornament that Em lovingly made for me, having chicken ( Read more... )

'Supp, homies?

The semester's almost done.  Thank goodness gracious for that.  This semester, simply put, has completely and totally demoralized me.  I've decided to stick around one more semester and hope for the best. Nick thinks I really should stick around for the health insurance and do the bare minimum, but let's not kid ourselves; if I ( Read more... )

I turned this in as a short response paper and it kinda ended up with me rambling.  But that rambling helped me articulate some of my issues, so here it is:

Jane Juffer explains the increasingly visible hostility that Latin@s experience in the United States by exploring the dimensions of the human face and, by extension, our conceptions of the human ( Read more... )

Ok, at this point it is unavoidable to admit this:  I am not radical enough to be in this department.  Hell, I don't think I'm radical enough to be in this field.  Yesterday in our social movements class we got into the discussion of "reform" versus "radical change".  By reform I mean making things better by putting pressure on the state.  By ( Read more... )

The more time I spend here, the more I become aware of how much of a blessing and a curse this is.  First of all, I definitely confirmed that my best mode of learning is through maieutics- things that are already inside me and that are only brought out by specific questions or general issues that lay bare my theoretical assemblage.

That brings me ( Read more... )

Putting this here so I don't forget.

I have to say, I'm extremely pleased with the prospect of taking these next semester (if I decide to stay):

1) GWS 539- Feminist Theories II with Frank Galarte
I'm already taking a class with Frank and I have to say, he is quite the sweetheart.  I'm excited to see what he decides to put in the syllabus.

Hopefully ( Read more... )

I've just been in that kind of mood where I am constantly on edge, so excuse me if these past couple of days have been particularly vitriolic.  At some point I'll drop the venom and go off to read kinky porn, which might do wonders for my health.

So I had yet another faculty rep meeting today.  That went as well as an anal probing with shattered ( Read more... )

So it seems I only use this journal whenever I'm aggravated; so be it.

I've been thinking about my relationship to academia and why it doesn't click with me for some time. At first I just thought it was an issue of laziness, that I wasn't trying hard enough.  After two years and some months of trying, it increasingly seems to be an issue of ( Read more... )