Sunday, November 14, 2004
Updates
We're going to keep Little Yellow Notes around, even though I don't work at the assisted living joint anymore.
Then what the heck could I possibly be filling my time with?
Well, that's a great question. Let me tell you.
I've started as a graduate student in the English program at Creighton University. Creighton's English grad program is going to get me where I want to be in a couple years, best as I can tell, but I haven't figured out if that's because of them or because they're able to give me the opportunities I need to make my efforts pay off. Probably the latter.
Where I want to be, exactly, is defined more by generalities than geographic specifics. In a doctoral program in English literature. More specifically, in a doctoral program in Anglo-Irish Literature. I'd like to have been published, even perhaps a couple times, and definitely to have been to as many conferences as possible.
Sharing this is not an opportunity for me to vomit my ambitions into the blog, but rather, as a primer for whatever comes next. Grad school--as anyone who has done this can attest--has a way of eating your life alive, so it's impossible that shreds and nips of it not to leak into what I write.
So let me tell you right now why I'm excited about this semester. I'm putting together a documentary edition of some unpublished letters by George Russell, a poet and painter also known as AE. I'm writing a paper about how his friend, Lady Gregory, defined her Irish identity through her depictions of the stereotypical character of the Irishman in her plays. And I'm writing a huge research paper on shit.
Then what the heck could I possibly be filling my time with?
Well, that's a great question. Let me tell you.
I've started as a graduate student in the English program at Creighton University. Creighton's English grad program is going to get me where I want to be in a couple years, best as I can tell, but I haven't figured out if that's because of them or because they're able to give me the opportunities I need to make my efforts pay off. Probably the latter.
Where I want to be, exactly, is defined more by generalities than geographic specifics. In a doctoral program in English literature. More specifically, in a doctoral program in Anglo-Irish Literature. I'd like to have been published, even perhaps a couple times, and definitely to have been to as many conferences as possible.
Sharing this is not an opportunity for me to vomit my ambitions into the blog, but rather, as a primer for whatever comes next. Grad school--as anyone who has done this can attest--has a way of eating your life alive, so it's impossible that shreds and nips of it not to leak into what I write.
So let me tell you right now why I'm excited about this semester. I'm putting together a documentary edition of some unpublished letters by George Russell, a poet and painter also known as AE. I'm writing a paper about how his friend, Lady Gregory, defined her Irish identity through her depictions of the stereotypical character of the Irishman in her plays. And I'm writing a huge research paper on shit.
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