No rest for the wicked.

[sechan19]

I just suddenly remembered that I have to give a ten-minute mini presentation on my seminar paper on Tuesday. Fortunately, there's a real sense that things should be kept low-key and under that ten-minute mark so it's not a huge strain. But still, it was rough to abruptly realize the existence of yet another thing that needs to be done soon.

Yikes.

At any rate, in all other matters (except for the seminar readings, which, I admit, I've really kind of lost interest in) I'm doing okay. Chinese and Japanese are in decent shape for now, and the conference paper draft is very nearly done. I just need to finish the section on the Lotus Sutra, write the conclusion, and tidy up my footnotes. So that's alright.

And I was also able to go shopping and carve out time for John Huston's The Asphault Jungle, which was great but gut-wrenching. Now I'll go drop off the Netflix in the postbox. Then I'll finish up the paper and see what can be done about reading the cursed seminar articles.

Anyway, this is another boring post. I'm doing NaBloPoMo, which is why you're being subjected. Ordinarily, I'd leave you all in peace. ;>

Comments

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

yay more posting from reteva! I approve!

[reteva.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I always love reading your updates, too!

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

thanks - I'll try to make them less doom n gloomy. though really, how sunny can one be with grant writing issues over one's head?

[reteva.livejournal.com]

Nah, the gloom is understandable.

You know, you came up in conversation in the TA lounge today when we were talking about grant agonies. The consensus view was that it's totally lame that you get so much theory flak when it's clear that you have an awesome project with extreme relevance to gender and social theory without even trying.

So, hang in there!

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

to be fair, some of the critical commentary was completely justifiable and deserved, and some of it even turned out to be helpful. it just took a bit of a mental breakdown for me to get there. end result: better grant proposal.