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School starts tomorrow., again
I strangely don't feel the same degree of nerves that I usually do, even though I've prepared less for this semester than most in recent memory. Maybe I'm actually getting the hang of this ( Read more... ) -
the radical potential of just writing something, anything.
I wound up sifting through old livejournal entries looking for the text of a Stephen Dobyns poem that I may or may not have posted 7 or 8 years ago (WTF?). I didn't find the poem, but I did find a ton of entries where I was really finding my voice as a writer (though I had already spent years hashing things out on my sort-of-awesome-slash-hilarious ( Read more... ) -
the first day
Wow, so my first first-day-of-school post from the other side of studentdom. I have to say, it feels pretty excellent ( Read more... ) -
welcome to the desert of the real
So, school stuff has started again. I had to attend a HR orientation to talk about health insurance coverage and retirement and stuff like that. Even though the options are all good, stuff like that stresses me out. I know Rachel feels badly about being on my coverage--she's so independent-minded that it frustrates her to feel like a burden. ( Read more... ) -
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Bringing it back
So, as I was saying...
I came out on top.
Six years ago I moved from Beaver County, PA to Syracuse, NY to start a PhD in English. It was not an easy thing to do, even though I was entirely committed to the idea of grad school. I spent the last few weeks dreading the move--I was leaving behind lifelong friends and exciting new people, my family, a ( Read more... ) -
To sum up
I will write something substantive later, but in summary of the past ten months I can say:
I came out on top.
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keep it together
Presuming LiveJournal somehow remains a presence on the web and the archives aren't lost, I imagine someone (me, perhaps, or somebody else with way too much time on their hands) will come to this stretch of time in 2009 and think, "Wow, mnemesis really dropped off the face of the earth here. I wonder if he got his hands caught in some farm ( Read more... ) -
summer is almost gone
and i fear i've wasted it. chapter 4 is drafted, but it's a mess. currently i'm trying to revise chapter 2 into an article to submit to Cinema Journal...that is not going so well.
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chapter 4
This chapter is going to kill me.
PS I need to find a real job in 6 months. D: