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I'm not up to much. Went to see a $5 matinee for the movie Jigsaw, which isn't normally my thing but it is, in my opinion, still Halloween Season until AT LEAST December so I went with Kay. I hate gore, so I spent a lot of the movie looking away like a kid, it's true. I actually have to say it was pretty alright and I feel cool because I used my elite literature narrative skillz to figure out all of the layers of the plot successfully before the end. In this way, the Saw movies resemble kind of a messy whodunit combined with a fairy tale moral allegory.
Worth it for a fiver on a day where I otherwise stayed in and read.
Money is real goddamn tight right now. It's bad enough that I'm seriously sweating a bachelor party excursion I've been looking forward to for a good friend. Heavy drinking parties make me a little nervous these days; I'm minding my P's and motherfucking Q's more often than not, and that's gone pretty well for me. The fact that I've got no real scratch to my name means that I won't be drinking much if I manage to make it out there, and I won't be doing any driving, so it's a question of money. That's got me in its own cold sweat, frankly. I'm going to a job fair on Thursday, and I'm putting in resumes to decent prospects several times a week, so hopefully this period will be gone soon - to be replaced by the temporarily more potent and profitable stress of a new occupation.
I won't say that I've given up on any teaching or academia, but I might suggest that academia has given up on us as a whole. There are a lot of really good people busting their ass in thankless teaching jobs from grade school all the way up to university and it's just not a job that lends itself to being done. I have so, so much to say about how education is being dismantled systematically, but it's not my job to fix that and the whole education industry literally runs on instructors believing they have a moral obligation to stand in that breach no matter how bad it is. But I literally can't afford it - academia is an amazing way to spend a lot of money to make very little. I'm really glad I got my Master's and some day I'd love to get my PhD - frankly, I almost want it because I'm not supposed to have it. But I can't afford to teach right now. I'll take what I can get, but I'm not willing to spend more time on academia than I am on anything else.
Worth it for a fiver on a day where I otherwise stayed in and read.
Money is real goddamn tight right now. It's bad enough that I'm seriously sweating a bachelor party excursion I've been looking forward to for a good friend. Heavy drinking parties make me a little nervous these days; I'm minding my P's and motherfucking Q's more often than not, and that's gone pretty well for me. The fact that I've got no real scratch to my name means that I won't be drinking much if I manage to make it out there, and I won't be doing any driving, so it's a question of money. That's got me in its own cold sweat, frankly. I'm going to a job fair on Thursday, and I'm putting in resumes to decent prospects several times a week, so hopefully this period will be gone soon - to be replaced by the temporarily more potent and profitable stress of a new occupation.
I won't say that I've given up on any teaching or academia, but I might suggest that academia has given up on us as a whole. There are a lot of really good people busting their ass in thankless teaching jobs from grade school all the way up to university and it's just not a job that lends itself to being done. I have so, so much to say about how education is being dismantled systematically, but it's not my job to fix that and the whole education industry literally runs on instructors believing they have a moral obligation to stand in that breach no matter how bad it is. But I literally can't afford it - academia is an amazing way to spend a lot of money to make very little. I'm really glad I got my Master's and some day I'd love to get my PhD - frankly, I almost want it because I'm not supposed to have it. But I can't afford to teach right now. I'll take what I can get, but I'm not willing to spend more time on academia than I am on anything else.