I've been a bit out of touch for the last few weeks, making the usual mockery of my efforts to "get back in the swing" of writing for the blog, but to be honest I've certainly done enough in the meantime that I feel I should be forgiven. I'm living with Jen now, having escaped my abysmal living situation in the apartment on 48th street (and oddly enough moving into a house close to NW 48th street, so literally jumping to the other side of town.) My friends, as usual, came through huge in getting the move done. Additionally, there was this funny comprehensive exam thing I've been working on for the last three weeks or so, ultimately ending in my submitting it and then immediately having to go redo it to include all the paperwork one typically has to include with an R01 Grant application (which I can only infer is the department's effort to talk us out of going into acadamia at the last minute.) This of course helped to remind me again what a monolithic, unwieldly beast the American bureaucracy has become in a number of ways, as at one point in the table of contents I was required to input the page number for the table of contents into the table of contents, just to cite a ridiculous example.
Now, I've got the document in my committee's hands, which of course leads to the crippling uncertainty of not knowing what they think of it and if it is sufficient to get me through into the next phase of the process. However, in the much more immediate future, I'm leaving tomorrow for New Orleans, to see dat Mardi Gras up close and person. How crazy it will get, and just how crazy things are going to get should help to offset a lot of the stress I've been under (most of it, admittedly, self-imposed.)
Hopefully, some good pictures/posts to come soon.
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