THAT’S THE POINT, JOSS. IT’S COMPELLING! WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THESE KIDS?!

[x_los]

THURSDAY

1. finish phone spreadsheet, select and purchase phone
2. clean rest of inbox
3. respond to flat people, seek more flat people
4. edit cv, send back to Danny and Cora
5. withdraw money
6. make dinner--quiche?

FRIDAY

1. incorporate Danny and Cora's CV changes, email it out to all and sundry
2. sort out bank accounts
3. respond to flat people, seek more flat people

SATURDAY/SUNDAY

1. figure out prescriptions
2. figure out doctors
3. respond to flat people, seek more flat people
4. email CV to more people, respond to replies

MONDAY

1. grad school aps
2. respond to flat people, seek more flat people
3. email CV to more people, respond to replies
4. cry

IT'S INSPIRING, DAMMIT!

Comments

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

Grad school, hm? In what?

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Thus far, the plan is to get an English masters and then doctorate, as they do over here rather than our normal double-barreled programs, and begin some lecturing--then take advantage of that tuition discount to acquire (via the slower part-time program) a history phd whilst working, so I can do more interesting cross-disciplinary work, as I'm very interest in context and conditions of production. Additionally it might well make me more interesting/valuable to a faculty. And writer friends of mine do kvetch that academic work leaves no time for creative writing, but I think that's just not quite true--look how many writers have also been academics?

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

That is a lot of very exciting ambitions.

And yes, it is possible to be an academic and a fiction writer. Not always - there are times on the tenure clock when one really can't write anything but those zillions of articles that one needs in order to avoid being fired - but for most of your career academia doesn't have to own your life any more than you let it.

Let me know if you want any help with grad school applications.

[x-losfic.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *hug* They're KILLING me. More Crippling Anxiety and imposter syndrome than anything else--so /difficult/ to so much as write the personal essay, and they're due, like, NOW. Eugh.