I submitted the first of my graduate school applications yesterday. The next four will be easier. I’m really happy with my statement of purpose, less happy with the writing sample (but I’m applying to be a social scientist, so most places don’t want a sample) but my sense is that the writing sample isn’t terribly important. And all I can do is be ( Read more... )

Hello friends!

I’m sorry I’ve been so bad about posting things lately! I even have backlogged pictures that are ready to post and backlogged fives lists that I haven’t thrown up because it slips my mind.

I say, I better get into graduate school this time, if for no other reason that I don’t think I could take applying again and retain sanity. But ( Read more... )

I never know what to call these check-in posts where I’m like “so here’s what I’m working on…” bleh, sorry for the nonsensical titles.

I’ve been fairly buried in the academic writing and graduate school application writing. On the plate for tonight, I need to get, probably about a thousand words on my major paper for the semester, which will ( Read more... )

I hope you’re weekend is going well.

I had a somewhat less than productive day yesterday, there were things that needed to be done, and doesn’t it always seems that those things are the same things that you need to be doing. But we can pass it off to the curse of modernity and move on, I guess.

I’ve been working a lot of my statement of purpose, ( Read more... )

Last year, when I was applying to graduate school, I spent a lot of energy looking for scholars who did work on the basic (as in basic science) phenomena that I’m interested in rather than scholars who did work in queer studies, and well, I’m applying for graduate school again, so I’ll let you decide how well that worked out.

Actually, there are a ( Read more... )

Good Monday to you all!

The period of time between thanksgiving and the second week of January are designed to be a haze of sorts. Between the holiday morass that seems to have enveloped America, the traditional end of semester crunch, and my process of applying to graduate school, which is on going, it’s all ends up being a blur.

My goal for ( Read more... )

So this entry is likely going to get me in trouble. Warning made.

Background: There’s a thread that’s now 100+ postings long on the queer group on Ravelry that debates the very old news website queer by choice. At the beginning of the thread I participated on the side of choice because: promoting agency is a good thing, because a insinuating that ( Read more... )

Dear [Provider of Academic Article Databases],

Article databases are really one of the best things that has happened to academic research in the last, ten or fifteen years. It makes accessing research painless and efficient, and the more available research is, the more valuable it is. I don’t think anyone will disagree with this assertion.

Here’s ( Read more... )

In lieu of anything about my day-which was mostly uneventful; or my knitting progress, which hasn’t been; or my plans for tomorrow, which are frightfully dull-I’m going to post the punch lines of a couple of theoretical issues that I’ve been tossing around and half starting blog essays about for a while, because I want to, and I can think of no ( Read more... )