Look with your eyes, not with your hands.


Such a minute fraction of this life do we live: so much is sleep, tooth-brushing, waiting for mail, for metamorphosis, for those sudden moments of incandescence: unexpected, but once one knows them, one can live life in the light of their past and the hope of their future.



A grad student muses on her life, film, friends, politics, reality televizzle, and music.

 
On Task

I've been trying desperately to stay on task... hence the reduced postings lately. Let's say I am re-finding my footing as a student. I had an in-class exam on Tuesday and now all efforts have been poured into the big narrative paper and generally, just refining thoughts so they are intelligible to others and hone in around a central, logical, argument. A 10-15page paper definitely resembles a kind of baptism by fire. I had a lot of grading this week, but I've stayed on top of it (largely because several students didn't turn their work in and it made it a little easier for me to grade). This is the first time I've felt buried or stressed. It is the first time this semester when the things I really want / have to do seem not to fit into allotted available time slots. This was of course an inevitable happenstance, but the year has officially begun, or so it feels.

Still seeing lots of movies... and a lot of good ones lately - Rear Window last night and this afternoon a special showing of a recently restored print of Murnau's Sunrise.
posted by lmjasinski at 12:53 PM