i'm with you all accounts zach. fall is my favorite time of year. i get swept up in the bliss of change, and movement, and the feeling of being between where i was and where i'm about to be. bring on the rain, and then let it rain some more. nothing fuels my creativity more than the dull grey glow of a cloudy day, water hammering the roof, and a pot of tea simmering in my belly.
i envy your grad school status, though i'm keeping myself busy with independent studies here in japan. i picked up a copy of Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project, which will keep me occupied for quite some time.
you should write here more often. i look forward to your thoughts and impressions on life.
Grad school has been an incredible experience. I love the sense of community that comes with it. I have made some awesome friends, and it provides a very nice social outlet. My classes aren't all that exciting this quarter, but it should be better next quarter.
I was reading some Benjamin the other day. Gotta love the Frankfurt School peeps.
I should. I keep telling myself that I will. I must make it happen. I also need to catch up on all of my friends' blogs.
I am looking forward to several of them, but I am also really anxious about them. Normally, I like to start responding and grading right away, but this time, I have to go through and pick out several essays (one weak, one strong, and one sort of mediocre paper) to bring to a English 101 instructor group reading thing on Saturday, and I am not looking forward to that. Getting up at 8am on a Saturday to discuss student papers does not appeal to me right now.
Aww. It would be hard for me to live in a location without a fall.
I would get them all graded, then look at the lowest, mid-level, and highest scoring papers to find the samples--as opposed to looking as I went along so I wouldn't waste grading time.
Oh, my, as soon as I saw these photos my heart jumped & I actually said "Oh Bellingham!" aloud. It's so lovely. I miss you lots. I am trying to get a new teaching job and also applying for Phd, but I am having a horrid time finishing the applications. I get stuck on stuff like that. xoxoxo
It is so beautiful. I feel very lucky to be in Bellingham.
What teaching job are you applying for? And yes, I cant imagine the awful time that is filling out job and PhD applications. It can be so mentally exhausting trying to get exam scores and transcripts and letters together and to tailor personal statements and writings samples.
I finally finished my application for a job at SCC. It would be really great. I hate to get hopeful, but I'd really like to at least get an interview or something. & Oh, man, I have to take the GRE Literature subject test and I didn't realize that it was only available twice a year and that may screw me over regarding application due dates. Sigh :/
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i envy your grad school status, though i'm keeping myself busy with independent studies here in japan. i picked up a copy of Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project, which will keep me occupied for quite some time.
you should write here more often. i look forward to your thoughts and impressions on life.
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Grad school has been an incredible experience. I love the sense of community that comes with it. I have made some awesome friends, and it provides a very nice social outlet. My classes aren't all that exciting this quarter, but it should be better next quarter.
I was reading some Benjamin the other day. Gotta love the Frankfurt School peeps.
I should. I keep telling myself that I will. I must make it happen. I also need to catch up on all of my friends' blogs.
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Lovely fall pics. We don't have any fall here whatsoever.
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Aww. It would be hard for me to live in a location without a fall.
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I miss you lots. I am trying to get a new teaching job and also applying for Phd, but I am having a horrid time finishing the applications. I get stuck on stuff like that.
xoxoxo
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What teaching job are you applying for? And yes, I cant imagine the awful time that is filling out job and PhD applications. It can be so mentally exhausting trying to get exam scores and transcripts and letters together and to tailor personal statements and writings samples.
Miss you!!! xo.
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xoxo
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