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First up: Hi Raj! Sorry I haven't posted in so long.
I have been wanting people-connections a lot lately, and have been disappointed every day when I do my morning-Internet and run out of livejournal-facebook-email reading... but at the same time, I haven't been feeling much like writing, I guess partly because of tinylaptop's tinykeyboard, and partly because there are so very many things I feel like I should be writing (grownup blogposts, work emails, conference paper, thesisthesisthesis, stories). I have become a machine that turns hot beverages into not-enough-writing.
Some news:
* I did some lecturing ('The Global South' and 'The Global Justice Movement') for a friend's first-year international relations course, as well as a couple of weeks of tutorials. I didn't feel like it went particularly well, but she said she got good reports back from the kids, which I'm trying to take at face value.
* I finished a couple of short stories, and was pleased with the responses I got to them. I'm trying to get back to some half-finished stories that are in a different genre, because I'm feeling unsatisfied with writing so many oddlittlelovestories. If I finish some of my (uncommissioned) stories, I might put them together in a booklet and think about selling them/giving them away.
* What with the possible end of my thesis in sight (I still have a hard time believing this) and various new friends in my life who have a different perspective on the world to groupthink current in other circles in my social venn diagram, I have been putting some thought into what I want to do next. I had been considering sticking around Perth and maybe getting a job here (possibly even in the public service???), but the Think Tanks' experiences here and abroad lead me to think I should scratch that plan. Getting a job overseas or interstate appeals, but I have a hard time accepting that any organisation will want me for the kind of work I want to do (I remain unclear as to what that is, but hopefully something intellectually stimulating that has some connection to the broader struggles I'm interested in, and where I get to interact with good people on a regular basis). And part of me also wants to just pack a bag and wander around for a bit, staying with friends around the place and writing and exploring...but I suspect that I wouldn't be very good at that, since I've picked up this need for Busy-ness (or at least a need to have lots of Busy to avoid and be stressed by).
I think that is enough for now. I should get back to thesispanic, I think.
*waves*
I have been wanting people-connections a lot lately, and have been disappointed every day when I do my morning-Internet and run out of livejournal-facebook-email reading... but at the same time, I haven't been feeling much like writing, I guess partly because of tinylaptop's tinykeyboard, and partly because there are so very many things I feel like I should be writing (grownup blogposts, work emails, conference paper, thesisthesisthesis, stories). I have become a machine that turns hot beverages into not-enough-writing.
Some news:
* I did some lecturing ('The Global South' and 'The Global Justice Movement') for a friend's first-year international relations course, as well as a couple of weeks of tutorials. I didn't feel like it went particularly well, but she said she got good reports back from the kids, which I'm trying to take at face value.
* I finished a couple of short stories, and was pleased with the responses I got to them. I'm trying to get back to some half-finished stories that are in a different genre, because I'm feeling unsatisfied with writing so many oddlittlelovestories. If I finish some of my (uncommissioned) stories, I might put them together in a booklet and think about selling them/giving them away.
* What with the possible end of my thesis in sight (I still have a hard time believing this) and various new friends in my life who have a different perspective on the world to groupthink current in other circles in my social venn diagram, I have been putting some thought into what I want to do next. I had been considering sticking around Perth and maybe getting a job here (possibly even in the public service???), but the Think Tanks' experiences here and abroad lead me to think I should scratch that plan. Getting a job overseas or interstate appeals, but I have a hard time accepting that any organisation will want me for the kind of work I want to do (I remain unclear as to what that is, but hopefully something intellectually stimulating that has some connection to the broader struggles I'm interested in, and where I get to interact with good people on a regular basis). And part of me also wants to just pack a bag and wander around for a bit, staying with friends around the place and writing and exploring...but I suspect that I wouldn't be very good at that, since I've picked up this need for Busy-ness (or at least a need to have lots of Busy to avoid and be stressed by).
I think that is enough for now. I should get back to thesispanic, I think.
*waves*