Posts Tagged ‘angst’

Sometimes you really have a week. Sometimes you have two, back to back. Sometimes you find yourself dealing with four major project deadlines straddling either side of a conference for which you aren’t really prepared for. And as you try to stay calm and power through, even in the face of a million other things [...]


We live about 2 miles from campus, and I’ve been walking to class a lot. It would be a lie to say that I walk all the time, but I end up hoofing it a good deal of the time. This week, we’ve had about five consecutive days of rain so after walking to class [...]


Emo Barbie

31Mar09

I am seriously slumping it right now. By that I mean, I feel mired in this “blech” place where I feel unmotivated, unexcited, dispassionate, suspended. I’ve had some brief reenergizing moments–accepting an offer to a PhD program in Syracuse, going to a conference in San Francisco, going to a feminist theory workshop at Duke. But [...]


Work it out

01Sep08

I’ve determined that after taking nearly a month-long break, this is the week that I’m going to start going to the gym regularly again. I did really well with going to the gym over the summer, but then they shut down for a two-week steam clean and Aidan had surgery and then classes had suddenly [...]