thirty dollars pays your rent
Sep. 19th, 2012 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesseI just realized that there's going to be a commentary track on the Avengers DVD. Yay! There are few things I love harder than Joss Whedon commentary tracks and their mix of nerdiness, formalism, and politics, and I could really happily listen to him talk about comic book superheroes and their ways for 2+ hours.
I'm in a weird place right now - my exam process really burned me out, and I'm having an almost pavlovian negative response to the nineteenth century at present. Which, on the one hand, I've got months before my dissertation prospectus has to be written, and it might not be the worst thing in the world for me to cool it, backbrain some stuff, and see if I can't sort of reclaim my life from university stuff. I might even, you know, finish a fic one of these days. But on the other I feel ishy about it, because the nineteenth century is almost like a fandom, right, and this is pretty much the first time I've ever actually burned myself out of a fandom. Also I have to present research at the NAVSA conference in Madison next week, should probably start caring about at the very least Middlemarch again.
I'm doing a lot of physical maintenance atm, in the hopes that curing the body will also cure the mind. So I'm getting chiropraction, which I've needed for years, and doing a food cleanse with no wheat, caffeine, or cocoa, since those are my personal poisons. But I still feel really tired and unsparkful. Thank god electoral politics have been so entertaining this week - it's a good brain distraction, and with the sheer amount of horrible Mittens Romney's produced in the last week alone it's becoming nicely farcical.
I'm in a weird place right now - my exam process really burned me out, and I'm having an almost pavlovian negative response to the nineteenth century at present. Which, on the one hand, I've got months before my dissertation prospectus has to be written, and it might not be the worst thing in the world for me to cool it, backbrain some stuff, and see if I can't sort of reclaim my life from university stuff. I might even, you know, finish a fic one of these days. But on the other I feel ishy about it, because the nineteenth century is almost like a fandom, right, and this is pretty much the first time I've ever actually burned myself out of a fandom. Also I have to present research at the NAVSA conference in Madison next week, should probably start caring about at the very least Middlemarch again.
I'm doing a lot of physical maintenance atm, in the hopes that curing the body will also cure the mind. So I'm getting chiropraction, which I've needed for years, and doing a food cleanse with no wheat, caffeine, or cocoa, since those are my personal poisons. But I still feel really tired and unsparkful. Thank god electoral politics have been so entertaining this week - it's a good brain distraction, and with the sheer amount of horrible Mittens Romney's produced in the last week alone it's becoming nicely farcical.
no subject
Date: 2012-09-22 05:19 pm (UTC)Also, you are beyond saintly for giving up cocoa. Cannot even imagine.
no subject
Date: 2012-09-22 10:42 pm (UTC)I'm giving a paper on networks of feeling in Middlemarch at a freaking 8:30 am panel on Sunday. Title is "'The most charming romance': Circulation, Narrative, and Sympathy in Middlemarch." We'll see if I can even manage to be conscious; I'm glad the paper is already polished and complete, because my writing mojo right now is nil.