Summer's almost over! Well, really it is but I'm not admitting it yet. I have orientation for my TA-ship Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and then on Thursday classes start! I'm so sad. I've had the best summer, biking around town, going to the library to get books, going to the pool to read them, and swim, and this last week, watching the Olympics at my family's house in Nebraska, staying up late with Will, sitting by the pool and going shopping with Mom. I finished a book yesterday and a book today and I keep wanting to read more and more. I thought the list would be getting smaller, but it's exploded. The more I read the more I want to read the more I want to write about it and think about it and I shouldn't have to go to school right now. I have so much to think about on my own! I don't know if the summer was so great because I was supposed to be working on my thesis (and I was a little bit, really!) so I felt like all my time was stolen time, or if it was good because I was just floating around and hanging out with people when I wanted to and doing my own thing. I've really been living in my head and now I feel like other things are trying to come in and mess up my thoughts. I was in a bad place at the end of the semester as far as thinking went and I think it's because I wasn't thinking about anything that really interested me. Theoretical linguistics isn't where I want to be right now. It doesn't keep my brain awake and working. And when my brain shuts down I'm just in trouble, especially academically. I'm taking two English courses this fall so hopefully that will keep things going, but I also have to finish my thesis, so we'll see. Hopefully I can do school and think about what I need to without everything getting in everything else's way.
Posted by linnea at August 17, 2008 10:49 PMWriting a thesis is like a having a baby. No one wants to hear that tons of other people have done this too and that everything will work out fine while they're writhing in the midst of labor, but when it's all over, you can take a bound copy of your brain child to play groups and preschool.