Clever on Demand

• Taking Classes at Webster, for free. I'm at the moment, excited by this. Because my father is the undergraduate advisior I'm already enrolled in classes. Sigh. The are: psycholingustics, the psychology of adulthood and aging, and contemporary linguistics (an english class), and maybe a fem theory class (ha!) or something else.


• Talking about working as a research assistant/intern for a social work professor that I knew. Maybe. It's an idea.


• Taking a GRE prep class so I can have super sexy GRE scores.


• Getting A Car of My Own, so I can be a real person again, and maybe visit folk in urbana, nashville, and chicago (I also think that there needs to be a roadtrip to philly/harrisburg at some point.)


• Putting a window in my room at home.


• Yarn Store/Knitting Teaching maybe. I'm also going to look into the possibility of continuing to do some very limited work for my current employer, but I'll probably need to do a little bit of additional work.


• continue to write fiction, because I'm cool like that. I wrote the first 100 words of a new novela today btw.

Blogging, Academia, and Me:

“I think that anxieties about blogging are mostly anxieties about unemployment. For academics in particular, unemployment anxieties have different forms: the will-I-finish anxiety, the will-I-get-a-job anxiety, the will-I-publish anxiety, the will-I-get-tenure anxiety. And because for academics, having a job is so deeply bound up with having an identity, these unemployment anxieties become personal anxieties, which are difficult to discuss with non-academics (because they don’t share them) or with one’s immediate colleagues (who are, after all, also one’s competition and/or tenure committee).”

(from Bitch. Ph.D..)

So True!