Thursday, January 29, 2009

Getting Back in Gear

Hope all is well with everyone. I'm not sure if it's reassuring or just plain hilarious that we all seemed to stall around the same time. I'm back in New York and trying to get a head start on my reading. As a junior member of the club (still working on my orals and all), my list of impending shame items are as follows:
  • Register for the conference at which I'm supposed to present in March (by Monday).
  • Write the conference paper (by 2/15)!
  • Reserve a room by 3/1!
  • Apply for two fellowships: One for the conference (by 2/1) and one for the Center for Politics and Culture (by 2/15).
  • Finish the INCL I took this semester by 3/1.
  • Finish compiling two of my three orals lists by 6/1.
I'm sure there's more, but I'll have to wait on it! Right now, I've got two books and about 500 pages of secondary texts to read by next week! Ack! Shriek! Well, not so bad!!!!

Yes, invite your friend Amstr! I was thinking about inviting a former Cal Poly comrade who is working on the last stages of his dissertation right now. Whad'ya think? ;)

3 comments:

Amstr said...

Invite your friend, by all means! We (obviously) need all the motivation we can get! :)

Sounds like you've got a lot of great outside deadlines to get you into gear. I'm finding myself floundering without someone else imposing the deadlines. I'm trying to figure out how to set some myself.

What's your conference paper on?

Amstr said...

Oh, and those last incompletes before areas STINK! I took incompletes in both my classes my last semester. (I was lazy and pregnant that fall.) The first one had a firm deadline end of January, the other was flexible. That second one took me way past spring break. It was way better than the first one, but both were pretty poor and garnered my worst grades in grad school (except for a couple of short papers for Wenzl). I ended up having both of those profs on my committee, and thankfully, they didn't hold the papers against me. I hope your incomplete ends more successfully! (But let's face it, a finished paper is all you really need.)

Good Enough Woman said...

Yay, SafiaK! Glad you're in gear and on board. Yes, invite your friend. Who is it? Do I know this friend?

I will post my wall of shame, soon. In fact, that's my first wall of shame tasks: Post wall of shame tasks.