genevieve is…

…at least for now.  The last 6 or so months have been pretty overwhelming.  It’s not so much starting the PhD that has been hard, but being on quarters has been really, really difficult.  Quarters are…intense.  Some of the other grad students seem to absolutely take it in stride, but I feel like I’m continually behind, never quite finished reading before a grad seminar, never responding to emails quickly enough, never starting paper research early enough, and never prepared enough to best teach a two hour long first year writing course.

This quarter started March 24, and I’m feeling less freaked out, particularly because I’m only taking one full-blown graduate seminar (the other class is shadowing a faculty member who’s teaching an undergraduate  course in preparation for teaching the same course in the future).  Also, I just got back last night from 4Cs, and putting that behind me is really a relief.

All that to say that I’m going to start writing here again, hopefully.  I doubt anyone is going to read this unless I actually request they do so, but out there in the interweb ether it goes anyway.  Hope things aren’t too crazy for you, interweb ether.