It has been a chore to get myself to write again. Trying, attempting, straining to write my dissertation (or anything pertaining to my dissertation) is taking up all my brain power. It is gratifying to know that someone somewhere at the university thinks it is worthwhile to pay me so I can write and not have to hold down a full time job at the same time (no, I don't count being a TA as a full time job...although being a TA and writing more than counts). So I've been neglectful of this blog. Of course, it is also because I'm not traveling at the moment and do not have any fun adventures to write about. Those, I hope, will be coming again, in time.
My life right now consists of writing, fooling around with STATA, pretending I know what I'm doing, occasional visits to the gym, cooking, diving to and from campus, and sleeping. Oh, and a random novel and movie thrown in from time to time. Every once in a while I socialize with fellow grad students. I search for fellowships online and am constantly re-framing and re-writing my generic fellowship proposal. And I worry about the future, most specifically about how I'm going to survive financially once my funding runs out in April.
It's not the most exciting existence, but it certainly isn't that terrible either. Perhaps it could best be described as a break. I was thinking about it in terms of being in Limbo, but I think that description is a bit too bleak. Life for me right now is the most routinized, the most normal, the most settled it has been since I started writing this blog, maybe even since before that. Which is probably what I'm rebelling against (ha!). So my new plan of attack is to embrace routine and settle in for the next few months. Maybe then I'll get some real writing done!
So, dear readers, I'm setting myself the challenge of writing on this blog at least once a week. Not so much about my adventures abroad, but about my work and other interesting things (interesting to me at least, you all can judge for yourselves if it is universally appealing). Let's see how it goes, shall we?
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