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Writing this partially to let everyone on this side of the Internet know that I'm still very much alive, just totally swamped with real life things and generally lazy to post. Blogging requires a ridiculous amount of effort when most of the fun's moved to individual chat windows and Plurk. orz
Haven't changed out of my clothes yet either - am fresh from another faculty meeting on campus, and coming in a little later than usual because I wanted to get some work done while I was kicking around in the department. I figure, too, that if I dress down I'll just get lazy again, so. Yeah.
This month's ending in a matter of days, and things are bound to seriously pick up once March hits... it's the last month of the semester, and major rollercoasters aside, I'll have to say that it's been wild, frightening, crazy, extremely disheartening and extremely fulfilling. I'll probably buckle down and step back from the Internet for a few days so that I can advance work on all fronts. The faster I finish stuff and make up a game plan, the sooner I can finish and consider myself free, after all.
On the teacher end of things, this means planning all of my lessons from tomorrow until the very last day of class - not a problem, given the fact that I've reviewed the basic module for En11 and I'm on my third read of the novel I intend to teach for Lit13 (Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby, for the curious). I can probably do this tonight, and given the mood I'm in, I just might do it before I crash.
On the grad studies end of things, this means gunning the two final papers I owe my professors in my respective classes. One of the paper prospects that I just got hit on the head with an epiphany for fascinates me - I'm planning on doing a study of the phenomenon of fanfiction based on our changing images of the author and reader + Walter Benjamin's take on how the mechanical reproduction of art changes our perceptions of art and tradition as a whole. As for the other paper... might spin up something on Sailor Moon and the power of memory. We'll see.
(Which reminds me. I have to start dumping all of the academic papers I've written in my geek filter, and maybe copypastaing all the stuff to the Wordpress blog that I put up months ago but never bothered to fix. *cough*)
(I should also go back to posting fanmixes and stuff. *coughcough*)
Seriously looking forward to summer. I don't think I'll have a teaching load, but I WILL be running errands for the committee I'm a part of, and I'll probably be attending a graduate class (Development of Poetry ought to be interesting). Might do work from home on one of those online web-based office job things to earn income for the plans I've got later in the year. Dollars are always good things to have, see~
I've had my doubts about my job recently, but all this activity is starting to make things a little clearer. ♥
Things have been even more interesting on the health front, the fandom front and the literary front. RPing is connecting me to all sorts of interesting people, and it's also providing the outlet I need since I just don't have the time to buckle down and write things, fic or otherwise, with all of this activity going on. As for the health front... to make a long story short, I might have diabetes, or I might be on the brink of getting it. The little toes on both of my feet can testify to that possibility rather vividly.
Or I could just be paranoid. I prefer 'paranoid', for my own reasons. (One debilitating, life-long disease is enough.)
Now for the literary front. There were some, ah, issues brought up during the Taboan Writers' Festival that caused something of an explosion among the Filipino 'creative' and 'literary' (note the quotations) bloggers down here. Something about marginalization and 'speculative fiction' (quotations deliberate yet again) and agenda. Relevant links are easily Google-able, and frankly, I don't want to link anybody.
How do I feel about it?
Well.
Hum.
You know how your parents always tell you to just not say anything if you don't have anything nice to say?
There you have it. o_o
As for intelligent discussions, I'll have to apologize: I've got better things to apply critical theory to at this moment, thanks.
Haven't changed out of my clothes yet either - am fresh from another faculty meeting on campus, and coming in a little later than usual because I wanted to get some work done while I was kicking around in the department. I figure, too, that if I dress down I'll just get lazy again, so. Yeah.
This month's ending in a matter of days, and things are bound to seriously pick up once March hits... it's the last month of the semester, and major rollercoasters aside, I'll have to say that it's been wild, frightening, crazy, extremely disheartening and extremely fulfilling. I'll probably buckle down and step back from the Internet for a few days so that I can advance work on all fronts. The faster I finish stuff and make up a game plan, the sooner I can finish and consider myself free, after all.
On the teacher end of things, this means planning all of my lessons from tomorrow until the very last day of class - not a problem, given the fact that I've reviewed the basic module for En11 and I'm on my third read of the novel I intend to teach for Lit13 (Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby, for the curious). I can probably do this tonight, and given the mood I'm in, I just might do it before I crash.
On the grad studies end of things, this means gunning the two final papers I owe my professors in my respective classes. One of the paper prospects that I just got hit on the head with an epiphany for fascinates me - I'm planning on doing a study of the phenomenon of fanfiction based on our changing images of the author and reader + Walter Benjamin's take on how the mechanical reproduction of art changes our perceptions of art and tradition as a whole. As for the other paper... might spin up something on Sailor Moon and the power of memory. We'll see.
(Which reminds me. I have to start dumping all of the academic papers I've written in my geek filter, and maybe copypastaing all the stuff to the Wordpress blog that I put up months ago but never bothered to fix. *cough*)
(I should also go back to posting fanmixes and stuff. *coughcough*)
Seriously looking forward to summer. I don't think I'll have a teaching load, but I WILL be running errands for the committee I'm a part of, and I'll probably be attending a graduate class (Development of Poetry ought to be interesting). Might do work from home on one of those online web-based office job things to earn income for the plans I've got later in the year. Dollars are always good things to have, see~
I've had my doubts about my job recently, but all this activity is starting to make things a little clearer. ♥
Things have been even more interesting on the health front, the fandom front and the literary front. RPing is connecting me to all sorts of interesting people, and it's also providing the outlet I need since I just don't have the time to buckle down and write things, fic or otherwise, with all of this activity going on. As for the health front... to make a long story short, I might have diabetes, or I might be on the brink of getting it. The little toes on both of my feet can testify to that possibility rather vividly.
Or I could just be paranoid. I prefer 'paranoid', for my own reasons. (One debilitating, life-long disease is enough.)
Now for the literary front. There were some, ah, issues brought up during the Taboan Writers' Festival that caused something of an explosion among the Filipino 'creative' and 'literary' (note the quotations) bloggers down here. Something about marginalization and 'speculative fiction' (quotations deliberate yet again) and agenda. Relevant links are easily Google-able, and frankly, I don't want to link anybody.
How do I feel about it?
Well.
Hum.
You know how your parents always tell you to just not say anything if you don't have anything nice to say?
There you have it. o_o
As for intelligent discussions, I'll have to apologize: I've got better things to apply critical theory to at this moment, thanks.
