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Jul. 7th, 2005 04:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starzkiMajor upheaval in the
department. I'm a little worried. At least the professor
that's leaving is not on my committee. But he's great.
Always in the students' corner for us, trying to get us whatever he
can. Maybe this will mean that they'll actually start hiring some
new professors. Maybe he'll end up staying if they give him
enough money. But things are not good as they stand now.
I actually have been writing. Academic writing: blech. Sometimes sitting down to a fanfic that I enjoy writing and thinking about is like pulling teeth with me. Academic writing bores the shit out of me and I often need to be stapled to the chair before I get any actual work done. I don't like reading it, I don't like writing it. But I do like the work that goes into data analysis and I like actually knowing things that come out of the articles. I need like a ghost writer or something. I'll just give them my data and have them come up with the brilliant way to put it on paper. Sadly, there are only a handful of people who can actually pull this kind of writing off.
My fantastic advisor wants another article. She says by the end of the month. Which sounds like a lot of time in the abstract. However, I have to take into account all of the pouting and grousing and out-and-out temper tantrums that I will engage in before I actually put time into writing it every day. And that often takes up more time than the actual writing does. Then there's always the secret weapon *cough*booze*cough* for my writing that I can bust out when things get desperate. We'll see.
I still miss J. And I'm nervous about going out with the Usual Suspects this weekend. Without her there, there will be too much attention on me and how I'm not drinking enough. It would be nice to have one weekend where I'm not incapacitated for nearly a whole day because of a hangover. It just wastes so much time.
Again, we'll have to see. I always have such a hard time saying no, especially when the crush is there. Maybe they'll forget to ask me. *fingers crossed*
I actually have been writing. Academic writing: blech. Sometimes sitting down to a fanfic that I enjoy writing and thinking about is like pulling teeth with me. Academic writing bores the shit out of me and I often need to be stapled to the chair before I get any actual work done. I don't like reading it, I don't like writing it. But I do like the work that goes into data analysis and I like actually knowing things that come out of the articles. I need like a ghost writer or something. I'll just give them my data and have them come up with the brilliant way to put it on paper. Sadly, there are only a handful of people who can actually pull this kind of writing off.
My fantastic advisor wants another article. She says by the end of the month. Which sounds like a lot of time in the abstract. However, I have to take into account all of the pouting and grousing and out-and-out temper tantrums that I will engage in before I actually put time into writing it every day. And that often takes up more time than the actual writing does. Then there's always the secret weapon *cough*booze*cough* for my writing that I can bust out when things get desperate. We'll see.
I still miss J. And I'm nervous about going out with the Usual Suspects this weekend. Without her there, there will be too much attention on me and how I'm not drinking enough. It would be nice to have one weekend where I'm not incapacitated for nearly a whole day because of a hangover. It just wastes so much time.
Again, we'll have to see. I always have such a hard time saying no, especially when the crush is there. Maybe they'll forget to ask me. *fingers crossed*
