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In which our heroine throws things at the wall

§ April 2nd, 2009 § Filed under edutainment, job thingy § 2 Comments

TWENTY-NINE DAYS, BITCHES. Less than a month until the end of this whole graduate school thing. Most intelligent people in my cohort took one look at the economy and doubled the amount of PhD applications they sent BUT NOT ME; no, I imagined four years of life worse than these past two and decided that I’d prefer being unemployed and living in a cardboard box to further studenting.

The following are my plans for getting some type of job thingy:

• Pester the writing coordinator at University A until she gives me a job
• Actually send the job application to College B
• Buy printer cartridges in order to print application to send to College B
• Think about applying for jobs at College C, but decide against it for fear that my students would be smarter than me
• Apply for anything that comes up in the local newspaper employment ads; being a barista wouldn’t be so bad…or maybe I could learn about wine and become a tasting room consultant? that’d put my M.A. to use…
• Try to drum up some freelance writing/editing/proofreading business to finance my gardening this summer

It’ll be marvelous, not having a job.

In the meantime, the whole twenty-nine days thing has become a problem because I just no longer care. I want to be done. Have rearranged most of my classes so the class does a lot of group/teamwork and I do very little lecturing or grading. And only four more books to read and one term paper to write, which is the crux of my current angst: could throw the book I’m currently reading across the room: it’s written by a theoretical physicist who, in spite of that major professional shortcoming, manages to write clearly if condescendingly about “discourse” and “textuality” and other stuff I just don’t give a shit about.

I want to be done! I want to build a fence! to read books I actually enjoy! to see my friends in London! to go to Greece and eat feta and chickpea stew and explore churches and ruins, and neverever come back!