Summary of the past year: Hm, this place isn’t at all what I thought it would be… I love teaching, whee! Man, I don’t get along with any of the people here. They really won’t let me work on the type of music I’m into… If it weren’t for teaching, I’d go crazy! I hate [...]
I’ve been waffling about what to write in this post. There are so many things I want to talk about, but I’ve been trying to avoid having it all rush out in one big projectile of incoherent, stinking blog-vomit. So much has changed in the last three months; it’s hard for me to parse, even [...]
Some very hard-working people have inspired me to stop feeling sorry for myself and just get to work. When I talk to my grad student friends I know from other departments, they sound like I did in undergrad. They talk about how swamped with work they are, how much effort they’re putting in, but in [...]
((Continued from previous entry)) After re-reading the e-mail in which my independent study bid was rejected, I’ve realized some things. What irritates me most is that he rejected my independent study request because he thinks I need to do more writing. He said: “There’s a serious writing component to the program, & for most people [...]
There’s a lot going on right now, and I don’t really know how to start writing about it all. I guess we’ll start with some basic facts. Fact One: My plea for an independent study got rejected.Fact Two: My health, both physical and mental, has seriously declined over the month of March.Fact Three: I’m going [...]
Artist statements suck. Sitting in front of a computer trying to make a short and generic statement about my art and technique sounds like an exercise in eye gouging and facepalming to me. Unfortunately, my recent residency applications have turned what was formerly a mere observation into a first-hand account. Lucky for me, when my [...]
I’m a little terrified by the paper I’m writing, for a lot of reasons totally unrelated to the fact that it isn’t even close to done yet. It’s actually the point that I’m making and the people I’m making it to that make me feel panicky. How do you tell a bunch of old guys [...]
This was previously posted in a more private blog on December 17th, 2008. I give you this, because the topic has come back to bite me in the ass…again: “A note to all of my friends either currently in academia or heading that way in the future: Never submit an abstract and bibliography to a [...]
New semester, new posting season for Ph.Dead. No, I did not actually die at the end of last semester. It was a particularly unrestful winter break, however, due to excessive traveling and excessive our-apartment-is-falling-apart-but-they-won’t-let-us-move raging. Now, the fateful day has arrived: the first day of classes. Time to brace myself and charge headfirst into chaos. [...]
((This is a continuation of Monday’s post, “No Cowboy Boots at the Symphony”.)) Grading concert reports, part trois. Some of these are so damned funny, it is my obligation as a human being to share them. – “I was looking extremely dapper with a sexy collared shirt and some nice trousers, while my roommate was looking [...]
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