grad school |

Edit my chapter?

April 4. Day 278.

I’ve gotten to the point in this chapter where I’ve started at the sentences for so long I don’t recognize them anymore. I am lodged so deeply inside every word that I can’t even follow the syntax. I said that? Really?? Why?? Do I really need that “that” there? What does “because [...]

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Career Day? Career Help?

March 18. Day 261.

I’m speaking at my high school’s career day.

Let me repeat that.

I. Am speaking at my high school’s career day.

Yes. That chick in her nth year of grad school, who does do occasional freelance work but is essentially careerless (let’s call it “careerfree,” shall we?)… is going to talk at career day.

You see, [...]

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Free lunch? And… ETA on PHD?

February 24. Day 239.

I ran into a doc and found out that a one-time sleep stroll is nothing to worry about. It happens when you’re really tired or have a lot on your mind. Like a dissertation.

Speaking of… I wrote a long-overdue email today to my advisor.

In this message, I gave her a status update [...]

grad school |

Diagnose me!!! And… asked for someone to get his act together

February 23. Day 238.

I just woke up, and Mr. A gave me this news before he rushed out the door to work:

I was sleepwalking.

Last night I got out of bed, walked to the computer in the dining room with my eyes open and said:

“No, I’ll do the literary comparisons.” With an heavy emphasis on the [...]

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Hire me?

February 20. Day 235.

A few things have been on my mind recently.

Health. In the past weeks there has been a stroke, a delicate eye operation, and two cancer biopsies in my family.

“Take care of yourself,” people have been telling me. Older people who know what our joint DNA has in store for us, who wish [...]