Last night I attended the lecture of a prestigious senior academic with degrees and books galore and found myself passionately, burningly, fundamentally troubled by her premise. It is opposed to the very principle that guides my work in literary criticism and cultural studies–and when I confronted her with it she said, simply, “you must not [...]
Archive for the ‘Dissertating’ Category
Stupid flood.
Posted in All Wet, Dissertating, Planet Sster, Reading, Writing on November 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Where have you been all this time? Oh, there you are. Awesome.
Posted in Dazed and Confused; or, Living Well with ADD, Dissertating, Planet Sster on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve had a good couple of months. After a pretty rough fall in which almost no writing occurred and I began to think of my dissertation as a gaping wound from which I would never recover, and that would actually eventually take over my whole body (yes, I used “which” twice, and yes, I’m being [...]
Fitness, Week 4! and news, at bottom
Posted in Dissertating, Fitness, Food on March 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Second haircut. 15 months and still blissfully in love with mirrors.
Yes! I’ve made it a month!
115 minutes cardio
2 free-weight sessions
45 minutes walking with a toddler on my back
I’m still struggling over size issues. In a moment of weakness I got out the scale AGAIN, and because I had to stand on the toilet [...]
Two Days
Posted in Dazed and Confused; or, Living Well with ADD, Dissertating, Parenting, Planet Sster, The Snapper, The guys on February 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Two days working at the group home. Two days dissertating. Two days of homemaking and childcare.
One day called “Family Day” for me to be exhausted and for Attic Man, who has been caring for the Snapper all weekend, to race to school to catch up on work.
I can’t tell whether it’s ‘balanced’ or crazy, this [...]
What to do on the days you feel like a hack
Posted in Dissertating on February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Something, anything, really! I find I am content–exhilarated, even–to write about poems all day. I can analyze the heck out of them. Then I go to the criticism and I start to overthink the fact that they are just so smart and accomplished and know all about Mallarme and Tennyson and I just don’t have [...]
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Posted in Dissertating, Reading, The Snapper, Writing on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
are my new favorite days. Look, I like being home with the Snapper and it’s its own challenge, but it’s not particularly intellectual for me. Tuesdays and Thursdays he is going to daycare full days and it is awesome. I come in the middle of the day to nurse him down for [...]
