Posted by Estella on August 30, 2006, at 22:21:46
In reply to good luck to everyone starting back!, posted by Estella on August 30, 2006, at 22:15:53
I was just thinking today that I'm happy :-)
I mean... I'm actually happy :-)
These are meant to be the best years of our lives and I kinda always brushed that off...
But talking to some of the academics, they have worse deadlines than us. Being hounded by publishers and being expected to get those grant proposals in on time and chasing up after slack *ss doctoral students lol. And that is for those who are lucky enough to get a research post (yeah, I consider that lucky lucky lucky). If you aren't so lucky then you have numerous undergrads to put up with (no offence anybody but it does indeed take a hell of a lot of time away from your readin and writin). So... Life is good. Spring has sprung (or at least it will on Sept 1. and the weather is nice and summery already). Lots of conferences at the beach and nice wines in the region and nice conference expendature budget :-) Life is good :-) And yeah... I have to do some work... But I can do ANYTHING I LIKE and it wouldn't be far off what other people are doing really because we just ARE interested in related issues. And while sometimes that is a pain in the butt (because everything looks equally moderately interesting and nothing stands out) it is GRAND really :-) Maybe... It is the seroquel... Maybe I'll keep that up after all :-)
poster:Estella
thread:681630
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