woe

So I haven't felt the impulse to update recently, mostly because my main sources of preoccupation/concern (my cohort and the graduate visit) were resolved in an excellent fashion. The last few days have basically consisted of me avoiding my thesis work (two and a half chapters behind, and it's due in two weeks! woe!), watching Coffee Prince (so addictive! click here for episodes if you dare!), and attending some events at the queer conference on campus this week (most notably, I got to hear Gayatri Gopinath and Heather K. Love speak and also saw a really moving performance by Miriam Yalini Thambynayagam and Varuni Tiruchelvam).

Goals for the coming weeks:
1) Finish thesis (what will happen when I'm the only person in the history of the world to get into a Ph.D. program and still not manage to graduate college?)

2) Find a place to live next year (must decide how to maximize stipend and still be able to walk around my future neighborhood at night. while at it, must also figure out how to minimize the amount of walking involved in general -oh laziness!-. must not contribute to gentrification. must figure out if roommates are desirable. and so on.)

Impediments:
1) Bad tv (I am so weak! I have no self control! Why must Top Model, Girlicious, and Make Me a Supermodel tempt me so?!)

2) Senioritis (like woah. It is a deadly disease)

In any case, we'll see how everything goes. I will undoubtedly be posting more soon, if only to avoid actually working. As for tonight, there will be the huge (and somewhat infamous) party that caps off the queer conference every year, so I plan to fully participate (and by participate, I mean amusedly watch in my safe and sheltered position as bartender) the drunken and debauched revelry that will undoubtedly be involved.