um...*something* check-in

[forthwritten]

How's everyone doing? I am still seeing life from the other side of the desk so the PhD's a bit on the backburner. It's interesting to see how department administration works - what administrators can and can't do, contacts within the university, that sort of thing - plus catching up on department gossip, intrigues, power struggles and drama. If I were a more manipulative and cynical person I'd say that befriending administrative staff is a good move, but I'm not that manipulative!

So what's going on with your PhD/life/etc?

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[luciente]

I am trying to do CV-building things in the hope of actually getting a job once I finish, so have spent most of this week preparing an article to send to a journal. I ran into a bit of a brick wall with it yesterday, though, so today instead I focused on finally shoving past my nerves and imposter syndrome and submitting a proposal to MeCCSA2011. Of course, now I am sitting here filled with despair and woe and wondering why a Proper International Conference would ever be interested in the abstract I just sent them, but at least I did it!

I am also SO EXCITED about starting teaching again soon. Undergraduate teaching really, really makes me happy; it's only the knowledge that I have to get a PhD to be able to do it full-time that's keeping me going with this thesis, really.