oh, god. at the very least it means i should start writing NOW. like, writing with intent.

After months of people asking what I'm gonna do when I get out of school, and answers ranging from "public librarian in a rural area!" to "work in a museum, someplace in DC with any luck," and the never-spoken but totally considered "sit right here on this slice of sand and just...age," I think I actually know what I want to do. Annoyingly, it's ( Read more... )

This week is shaping up to be what the kids these days call 'weird.' For starters, this week in Boise, a place I've always wanted to go (and continue to get weird looks for saying so), they're holding the American Folklore Society conference. Which means almost the entire department is not here. Many of the grad students, minus me, swung a way ( Read more... )

Things could have gone much worse today, and while I'll admit that's not really an inspiring statement about an exam, it's what today's boiled down to. I wish, though, that the questions I had trouble with were slightly less...key as far as concepts in the course go, but I feel like I did okay, and that's way better than I thought I was going to ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving ( Read more... )

Well, that's this season of Lost watched for me. I liked it, but...well, it's made a pretty big departure from the show I fell for back in the day, you know? I'm curious to see what they bring us next season ( Read more... )

I feel like I'm slipping away, back into the person I was before I got here. It's not a bad thing or a good thing, just odd. I don't think I was a bad person before, so it's not all that tragic, but I was a lot more cynical. I'm with it enough to recognize it as a defense mechanism, but I don't quite know how to make it stop ( Read more... )

Dear doctors ( Read more... )

The belmont ran today, latish for the east coast, bizarrely early for here. Who runs a horse race at 12:30? It's just...odd. But, I quite frankly didn't expect Mine That Bird to win, there was something annoyingly cocky about Burell's whole...I don't know. I mean, if I were the jock, I'd probably be cocky too. But he jumped ship to go ride ( Read more... )

To be fair, though, I type quickly in an attempt to keep up with my brain, so it doesn't feel like it's that long. most frequent response I get to my People I email? "it's so long! I didn't have time to read it all right then." And I swear I've been trying to keep it focused, but...I'm not really built that way, apparently ( Read more... )