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I've got another short essay due for submission at the end of Sunday that's designed to be worked into a longer end-of-year 15 page final essay. 4-6 is just tremendously short and to the point so it's not really easier than a 15, but it doesn't take as long, so the deadline isn't something I sweat so long as I respect it.
I am actually writing on something from Homestuck, actually, if that's the kind of thing that amuses/interests you. Homestuck was something I was seriously considering doing my thesis on after I had my class requirements sorted out, and I think that I could easy get 75 pages out of it, but my thoughts on it drift pretty close to the rhetoric/composition edge of the spectrum and, while I feel that distinction is, well, purely academic, it's the kind of distinction that's put me off thinking about it in terms of thesis construction. I'm leaning (I don't know if I'm repeating a previous entry here) towards a (post?-)post-colonial/Marxist examination of William Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy. I'm not married to cyber-punk as an academic topic, but honestly, it's probably already my academic focus since that's what got me into grad school and that's what I'd done seven years of amateur analysis on previous.
Actually, comparing my work with what I see written professionally, I feel like I was doing really well. To go from writing journal entries on Xanga in 2007 to writing a 75-page essay - neither of which got read or will be read - seems like a fun jump for me.
On a down note, I'll probably not be working as a TA come next fall semester, though I am on the waitlist. The information on the official SIUE website isn't correct, and I missed the date on application. I mean, it's bullshit that SIUE can't be bothered to keep its information correct on something that's so important, but I probably should have known by now that they're just blindingly incompetent. It's extremely frustrating, but I'll see about other employment over summer. Kay's been looking at different avenues of work - several have seen like sure bets but are still hanging in limbo. Odds are that they'll all come in at once, but with Star Clipper closing, being bought up, and re-opening under Fantasy Shop ownership, the Fantasy Shop staff have become extremely overworked. Kay's application has come highly recommended from a few high profile employees and it looks like that's a likely (if underpaying) position. I'll probably end up part-time in the furniture mines again. You know, we'll see.
I am actually writing on something from Homestuck, actually, if that's the kind of thing that amuses/interests you. Homestuck was something I was seriously considering doing my thesis on after I had my class requirements sorted out, and I think that I could easy get 75 pages out of it, but my thoughts on it drift pretty close to the rhetoric/composition edge of the spectrum and, while I feel that distinction is, well, purely academic, it's the kind of distinction that's put me off thinking about it in terms of thesis construction. I'm leaning (I don't know if I'm repeating a previous entry here) towards a (post?-)post-colonial/Marxist examination of William Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy. I'm not married to cyber-punk as an academic topic, but honestly, it's probably already my academic focus since that's what got me into grad school and that's what I'd done seven years of amateur analysis on previous.
Actually, comparing my work with what I see written professionally, I feel like I was doing really well. To go from writing journal entries on Xanga in 2007 to writing a 75-page essay - neither of which got read or will be read - seems like a fun jump for me.
On a down note, I'll probably not be working as a TA come next fall semester, though I am on the waitlist. The information on the official SIUE website isn't correct, and I missed the date on application. I mean, it's bullshit that SIUE can't be bothered to keep its information correct on something that's so important, but I probably should have known by now that they're just blindingly incompetent. It's extremely frustrating, but I'll see about other employment over summer. Kay's been looking at different avenues of work - several have seen like sure bets but are still hanging in limbo. Odds are that they'll all come in at once, but with Star Clipper closing, being bought up, and re-opening under Fantasy Shop ownership, the Fantasy Shop staff have become extremely overworked. Kay's application has come highly recommended from a few high profile employees and it looks like that's a likely (if underpaying) position. I'll probably end up part-time in the furniture mines again. You know, we'll see.