DST and its discontents
Apr. 4th, 2006 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosawI am resigned to being one of the few people who actually enjoys daylight savings time, even though the first week is a little challenging, what with the less sleep and all. However, last night I was walking home from dinner with Dr. Rwr-the-coordinated and it was still light at 7:30pm. That is one of my favorite things ever! It means winter is really over and this past week I have been really in the winter of discontent.
I don't have a job for next year and I have 3 more months of my current income. It's early to decide that I'm not going to have a career, but I really need to figure out how to publish in order to have an academic job. I met with the adviser (apparently that's a life-time appointment) and she wasn't so helpful. She's a bit frustrated, too, because all her students who have recently finished either have no job or have 1 year appointments. I still feel like I don't have anything to say about my project and that probably means ignoring it and learning to embrace the uncertainty is my zen path right now. Maybe I could learn to relax, that would be a good activity. However, that 3 months of income thing weighs heavily on the zen mind, relaxing mind.
It's amazing, life's problems continue, even after the damned disseration is complete. I'd be lying if I said I was expecting that. Kinda thought the world was going to be all sunshine and roses. Really. I did.
But it's not all anxiety and despair, there's also great excitement and squee.
In the good news category (GREAT NEWS!!), Rwr and I are going to housesit for our dear friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
melodymuse's parents for 5 weeks this summer. Their house, that we are sitting, is on Oahu. Oahu, island of beaches, surfing, and boogie boarding with a side of snorkling. Not to mention the whole land-mass surrounded by ocean. SURROUNDED! I have never been to Hawaii and I am very excited. EXCITED!!! It's going to be so cool. It's not far from where Lost is filmed and I am intending to throw myself at Naveen and Adawale and have a torrid summer affair that ends in heartbreak (theirs) when I return to my glamorous life as a college professor. Oh, poor Naveen, how he will cry (all Bollywood actors have to be able to cry buckets at the drop of a flowing silk scarf) and Adawale will bear the break up with stoic, laconic strength, knowing in his heart that it would never really work out between us, he could never imagine himself as a faculty wife.
Pretty much I think if you're going to dream, dream big.
The Hawaii part isn't a dream, though. I have been making lists of what I need to do, to have done and to accomplish before we take off for the land mass surrounded (SURROUNDED!) by ocean.
One of things I'm going to do is leave my caps lock key at home. :-)
So, even the I don't have a job for next year, my despair is overwhelmed by the I will be living on a beach squee. M&M have shown us the coolest pictures ever, plus given us this wonderful opportunity to actually live there for a little while (5 weeks, 39 days, I haven't calculated the hours yet). SQUEE! (What?!? I haven't left yet.)
Today is the first day of spring quarter classes. Women in Early Xnty and then Religious Biography. I spent all day yesterday on the syllabai and now the dreaded first day is here. I'll be glad when today is over and the classes move under their own momentum. I'm off to get that momentum underway.
I don't have a job for next year and I have 3 more months of my current income. It's early to decide that I'm not going to have a career, but I really need to figure out how to publish in order to have an academic job. I met with the adviser (apparently that's a life-time appointment) and she wasn't so helpful. She's a bit frustrated, too, because all her students who have recently finished either have no job or have 1 year appointments. I still feel like I don't have anything to say about my project and that probably means ignoring it and learning to embrace the uncertainty is my zen path right now. Maybe I could learn to relax, that would be a good activity. However, that 3 months of income thing weighs heavily on the zen mind, relaxing mind.
It's amazing, life's problems continue, even after the damned disseration is complete. I'd be lying if I said I was expecting that. Kinda thought the world was going to be all sunshine and roses. Really. I did.
But it's not all anxiety and despair, there's also great excitement and squee.
In the good news category (GREAT NEWS!!), Rwr and I are going to housesit for our dear friend
melodymuse's parents for 5 weeks this summer. Their house, that we are sitting, is on Oahu. Oahu, island of beaches, surfing, and boogie boarding with a side of snorkling. Not to mention the whole land-mass surrounded by ocean. SURROUNDED! I have never been to Hawaii and I am very excited. EXCITED!!! It's going to be so cool. It's not far from where Lost is filmed and I am intending to throw myself at Naveen and Adawale and have a torrid summer affair that ends in heartbreak (theirs) when I return to my glamorous life as a college professor. Oh, poor Naveen, how he will cry (all Bollywood actors have to be able to cry buckets at the drop of a flowing silk scarf) and Adawale will bear the break up with stoic, laconic strength, knowing in his heart that it would never really work out between us, he could never imagine himself as a faculty wife. Pretty much I think if you're going to dream, dream big.
The Hawaii part isn't a dream, though. I have been making lists of what I need to do, to have done and to accomplish before we take off for the land mass surrounded (SURROUNDED!) by ocean.
One of things I'm going to do is leave my caps lock key at home. :-)
So, even the I don't have a job for next year, my despair is overwhelmed by the I will be living on a beach squee. M&M have shown us the coolest pictures ever, plus given us this wonderful opportunity to actually live there for a little while (5 weeks, 39 days, I haven't calculated the hours yet). SQUEE! (What?!? I haven't left yet.)
Today is the first day of spring quarter classes. Women in Early Xnty and then Religious Biography. I spent all day yesterday on the syllabai and now the dreaded first day is here. I'll be glad when today is over and the classes move under their own momentum. I'm off to get that momentum underway.
