Tonight I watched the three hour special premiere event of Heroes. I chose this over finishing my Marx reading and prepping the paper I will write tomorrow comparing a Marxist conception of political economy, consciousness and ideology to a later work on a similar topic. Hopefully I will get up at 6 tomorrow morning and finish the paper by tomorrow night with enough time to get 50-100 pages into Making Sense of Race, Class, and Gender. I'll read that all day Wednesday when I'm not in class....probably in a hurry. I'll write my response paper (hopefully at the graduate level), get up Thursday morning and prepare to teach a lab section. I'll do my classes that day, and Tyler and Lindsay will be here that night. I'll relax. Hopefully not all weekend.
In total, I have nearly 700 pages to read this week. That is literally impossible. I know the old notion that you can never read everything that is assigned to you in graduate school. You'll go insane. But WHY on earth should I be assigned so much reading that I have to choose which book NOT to read at all?
I want to be a good graduate student. I love the readings and the courses when I have the time to complete them. But it will not be my goddamn life. I cannot do this every day without reprieve. I've been moderately social here (at least compared to UK or what I might have expected from myself). I'll keep that going. But I'm also going to blog. Christ, this may be the only thing that keeps me sane if I want to finish this program. Otherwise, as I've told several people today because Missouri loves company (haha!), I won't be cut out for this.
I don't know what I want from this whole thing, but I'll be pretty damn pissy if I've already convinced myself that it won't work.
Graduate school is dark times. Dark times, indeed.
-Mike
p.s. I have little time for longing....but if you are from Kentucky, I miss you terribly right now.
3 comments:
I am from Kentucky. I miss you too.
And you need to comment back homey.
Things you've missed since you've been gone:
1. I cut my toenails.
2. Seinfeld reruns.
3. Kelly cooked a cake.
All three are good things, but you shouldn't be too sad about missing them.
First of all....I missed cake?!?
Second, all of those things would be more fun with my peeps.
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