I been having a hard time getting it up for writing these ( Read more... )

November 21st.Jesus. This leaves me so little time to finish my PhD program applications and my thesis. Sometimes I think to accomplish this I am going to have to quit my day job, but if I did that how would I live? How would I afford a place to live and to eat and to pay off my student loans? I guess I could live off my saving for the ( Read more... )

Things have calmed down enough to let me feel like I can afford to read a book solely for pleasure, and to that end I picked up The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao since Junot Diaz is coming to speak on campus on Monday. I am not all that far, but at the rate I was devouring it last night (and had to force myself to close it up and go to sleep) I ( Read more... )

And so I have officially changed my the title and focus of my master's thesis. I talked it over with my advisor, sent her a new prospectus and chapter outline and while it is not exactly in her own area of focus, she found it a strong enough and intriguing enough idea to support it. Then again, she is just there to advise me, not tell me what to ( Read more... )

As low as a teacher can feel (and perhaps it is only new/inexperienced teachers?) after a flat and uninspiring class meeting, he can feel high after a good one. . . Yesterday, after apologizing for my absence on Tuesday (despite the fact that I am sure my students were happy to not have class), I handed back the first draft of their narrative ( Read more... )

Sitting here in limbo / But I know it won't be long. . .
Sitting here in limbo / Like a bird without a song. . .
Well they're putting up resistence /
But I know that my faith will lead me onThe time since my last update was some sort of limbo where days blended into each other and I felt like I was unanchored, floating, aimless. . . This is the ( Read more... )

I've been wanting to write about something other than teaching and (not) working on my thesis (when I should be), but despite a few different topics I have been ruminating on, the time to write never seems to materialize. Even my day job has been too busy to squeeze a post out between frustrating texting with our offshore team and the anxiety of ( Read more... )

I wish I could say this is late because I've been busy, but the truth is I still feel like I have hardly gotten anything done.

Let's see if I can do this short and sweet this week.

Tuesday: I handed back the graded final drafts of their "Language" essay and the students moaned ahead of time wanting to know how the grades were "generally" before I ( Read more... )

I'm fucking tired and overwhelmed and I have barely begun ( Read more... )

( Tuesday )