So far this week:
1) Annotated bib (check)
2) Screenplay (check)
To be competed:
3) Research proposal (due tomorrow)
4) Thesis pages ( no due date, but I’m thinking I’ll do extra pages and hand my thesis chair since I should have handed in 30 this week).
Real post coming soon.
I have about 40 something pages due of screenplay due by 7 pm this evening. We’ll see if I can bang them out. I’m an idiot for waiting until the last minute.
will kick my ass. I can’t wait for this semester to be over so I can move and work on my thesis. Progress on the thesis is slow. No dice.
Things due by next week:
1) Annotated Bibliography
2) Research Paper proposal and working bibliography
3) 60 pages of a screenplay script
4) 30 pages of my thesis (novel).
Let the meltdown begin.
is kicking my ass.
I know I haven’t written in forever. It’s midterms, I’m trying to get my shit together. Shit can be defined as: the stuff of life, and in my case that means, a major family crisis (more on this when I have a chance to write), moving, paper grading, class work, thesis, and a long distance relationship.
Shhhhh. So busy.
Decemeber 8th (I think that’s when my semester ends) is so close. Right now I have more work to do and I’m so overwhelmed I don’t know where to start. October is starting to weigh me down.
Yesterday my thesis chair reminded me that I was running behind schedule with the progress of my thesis. As if I wasn’t aware. I really need to figure out how to up my productivity.
Suggestions? And not sleeping is not a solution.
As much as people hate Mondays, I have to stay I’m starting to love them. They are the fresh start to the week, the get-up-and-do-it! day. I woke up with minimal snoozing today, and feel ready to kick some serious ass. We’re talking PRO-DUC-TIVE! I wish I could wake up like this every morning.
If you’re down and out because it’s Monday, don’t be. Change your frame of mind, be stoked. I like to think of Monday as the day that determines how your week will go. I’ve decided today is going to a great day filled with productivity which will propel this week into getting part one of my novel/thesis done.
Yes I can!
Okay so I’m currently working on getting job stuff ready for when I graduate. Deadlines to apply for professor positions end around November 1st and that is soon than I think most of us realize. October is about to bang down the door and November is creeping along, getting ready to surprise us with Thanksgiving and the end of fall. Jeez that is stressful to think about. So in an attempt to not miss any deadlines for job applications I’ve started working on my CV (curriculum vitae). Once I finish procrastinating by posting, I’m going to outline a cover letter for a job I saw posted on MLA’s job list–the only one I’m qualified for as of right now.
I’m a bit stressed about this cover letter because here’s the thing, it’s a document that has to be perfect and has to sell you to the department. While that may be easy for some, it also has to show that you are qualified and convince the hiring committee to request an interview with you at MLA.
So because the job I’m applying for seems to be looking more teachers versus scholars (you’ll know when you read the job description they use certain words that indicate one over the other) I’ll be using my cover letter as a means to highlight my love of teaching versus my hatred of grading papers.
When I’m done and hopefully in a few months after I’ve sent it to the school, I’ll let you guys know if I get an interview and of course chronicle that whole process. I don’t know how hopeful I should be at getting called for an interview. I know it’s so competitive and all and I don’t want to get my hopes up because I will then be crushed when nothing manifests.
For now, I’m going to write this thing, have my professors read and reread the revisions of it to be sure that they would hire me. Once that is settled then I’ll try to forget I ever sent it out, and move along on my thesis. Still I know I’ll be thinking about it, daily. I know this because I sent out some work for publication in June and haven’t heard anything and I am going bananas wondering if I am going to published.
I will also visualize myself being interviewed and eventually visualize myself getting the campus invitation and then visualize getting the job. I can see it now, Professor [insert my name here]. I love it!
