Celebrating 2 months of unemployment!
Oct. 23rd, 2001 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanpaku_backupYes, the days pass without much to tell one apart from the other. Nothing happens. Because I keep waiting for a phone call or email telling me "You may be a winner!" I wait eagerly for snail mail, though I don't know why, since all that will come in the mail will be letters saying "You have lost." This is pretty much exactly where I was a year and a half ago. Though I suppose I have more or less been in this holding pattern since I went off department funding... that was in mid-1998. So it should really be a celebration of three years of piecemeal solutions and terror about the future. I feel better already.
Sour grapes all around. Filled out a bunch of applications last night. Saw that one department I had hopes of getting into was practically a hive of former Hopkins people, including someone who entered grad school a year after I did. That's always a great feeling.
Spent today at Brandeis. I figure I might as well use this time productively. Call it the "Unemployment Research Fellowship." I think I'm going to New York next week too. I have constructed a somewhat interesting detective story about this one aspect of my research. I'll write more about it once I figure out some of its dimensions, maybe.
Listening to Liz Phair's "Whip-Smart." It sounds better after 5 or 6 years than I had remembered. Some clunkers, but mostly it suffered from coming right after "Exile in Guyville," which was (imho) just unreproducibly great.
Sour grapes all around. Filled out a bunch of applications last night. Saw that one department I had hopes of getting into was practically a hive of former Hopkins people, including someone who entered grad school a year after I did. That's always a great feeling.
Spent today at Brandeis. I figure I might as well use this time productively. Call it the "Unemployment Research Fellowship." I think I'm going to New York next week too. I have constructed a somewhat interesting detective story about this one aspect of my research. I'll write more about it once I figure out some of its dimensions, maybe.
Listening to Liz Phair's "Whip-Smart." It sounds better after 5 or 6 years than I had remembered. Some clunkers, but mostly it suffered from coming right after "Exile in Guyville," which was (imho) just unreproducibly great.
