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Thursday, December 14, 2006
status
Since September I have...
1. Learned more Arrr and statistical modeling than I ever dreamed possible, but fear that it is still not enough.
2. Written twelve longish papers, 2 major project proposals, 10 gnarly-ass problem sets, and read approximately 19,250 pages (a conservative estimate, and there's one more week to go).
3. Gained approximately 200 pounds thanks to all-too-frequent hot chocolate runs, and endless entire weekends spent in the graduate bunker with no sight of the sun.
4. Watched my research agenda be utterly hijacked, which has had the strange effect of sending me back to the FSU and far, far away from Latin America interest-wise.
5. Learned calculus. Sort of. Basic idiot's calculus, anyway.
6. Discovered that African politics is probably not my bag, but have committed to giving it another chance beyond this one absurd and poorly-administered class.
7. Left the spooky, soulless, creepily Potemkin village of Cambridge a grand total of seven times. Four to Boston, once to Amherst, and twice to the airport and Seattle. I kind of can't believe that shit. Next semester at least I have four different conferences (Seattle, Vegas, Chicago, and New York), but why the hell haven't I been to see Bakon or my peeps in DC? Gaaah.
8. Not had one single yoga session, stopped jogging entirely, and experienced many, many days when my only time outside was the walk from my dorm to the department.
9. Increased caffeine intake dramatically. Like, way too dramatically. Embraced reality as shitty-espresso-dependent life form.
10. Not read any fiction whatsoever. Shauna's copy of "The Dispossessed" is totally going with me on the plane back home.
11. Have had both my laptop and my cell phone cease to function in some important way.
I'm not thinking too much of this is terribly sustainable in the long-term. ¶ 10:24 AM
1. Learned more Arrr and statistical modeling than I ever dreamed possible, but fear that it is still not enough.
2. Written twelve longish papers, 2 major project proposals, 10 gnarly-ass problem sets, and read approximately 19,250 pages (a conservative estimate, and there's one more week to go).
3. Gained approximately 200 pounds thanks to all-too-frequent hot chocolate runs, and endless entire weekends spent in the graduate bunker with no sight of the sun.
4. Watched my research agenda be utterly hijacked, which has had the strange effect of sending me back to the FSU and far, far away from Latin America interest-wise.
5. Learned calculus. Sort of. Basic idiot's calculus, anyway.
6. Discovered that African politics is probably not my bag, but have committed to giving it another chance beyond this one absurd and poorly-administered class.
7. Left the spooky, soulless, creepily Potemkin village of Cambridge a grand total of seven times. Four to Boston, once to Amherst, and twice to the airport and Seattle. I kind of can't believe that shit. Next semester at least I have four different conferences (Seattle, Vegas, Chicago, and New York), but why the hell haven't I been to see Bakon or my peeps in DC? Gaaah.
8. Not had one single yoga session, stopped jogging entirely, and experienced many, many days when my only time outside was the walk from my dorm to the department.
9. Increased caffeine intake dramatically. Like, way too dramatically. Embraced reality as shitty-espresso-dependent life form.
10. Not read any fiction whatsoever. Shauna's copy of "The Dispossessed" is totally going with me on the plane back home.
11. Have had both my laptop and my cell phone cease to function in some important way.
I'm not thinking too much of this is terribly sustainable in the long-term. ¶ 10:24 AM
