Comments | grey_ghost: shoulda, coulda, woulda.

grey_ghost

shoulda, coulda, woulda.

Apr 19, 2008 21:10

i think i'm slipping with age.

most of the pretending that i do happens on airplanes, as a convenient means of chit-chat. i pretend that i'm someone else ( Read more... )

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radioactivekiwi April 20 2008, 01:35:54 UTC

grad student blues. each time it comes up, it makes me re-think about whether i can go through with it (not that i'm trying to discourage you). it can't be all that bad!

grey_ghost April 20 2008, 01:53:45 UTC

it makes me re-think about whether i can go through with it

it's not that bad. i have some depressing stories to tell, and the internet is convenient. usually good stories are told in person and one is having too good of a time to blog about them.

as always, anything really worth doing will test your patience.

(not that i'm trying to discourage you)

it's probably too late for that.
thanks, though! q:

by the way, do i know you?

radioactivekiwi April 20 2008, 02:12:02 UTC

not really, no. i kind of just end up reading blogs, when i have something to say, i pretty much just comment without thinking about whether i know who i'm writing to. hope you don't mind, i've been reading your blog once in awhile, i just never got to mentioning it to you.

haha, you have something to live for grad student. keep on it.

grey_ghost April 20 2008, 02:15:32 UTC

hope you don't mind, i've been reading your blog once in awhile, i just never got to mentioning it to you.

no worries; as i warn people on my profile, i do the same.

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grey_ghost April 20 2008, 02:14:03 UTC

response that even something as mundane as librarianship gets.

admittedly, i would ask giddily ask if they always get first pick of the new books and materials, or if they have to wait like the rest of us mortals.

then again, i am always curious about perks. but all kidding aside,

I feel like this plagues a lot of specialists (not just grad students, but those in the professions, and those who have already become teachers or professors or workers at the gubment or whatever),i take a slightly different point of view, but i think you're right. my guess is that imagination and expectation are more at work here. hence, the more specialized a field is, the less of an idea people may have of it ( ... )