Hard-boiled degree
In one of my less stellar moments this morning, I managed to burn my breakfast of...
hard-boiled eggs.
If you thought this wasn't possible, boy did I prove you wrong. They didn't taste *that* bad (actually, the yolk was worse than the white, which seemed counterintuitive to me since the yolk is on the umm inside), but the smell was *really* not cool. I am currently trying to air out the apartment. I guess it doesn't help that I had unagi last night, and that's pretty smelly already. Heh. Y'all must have a great impression of my apartment by now...
It's been quite a week... and was something of a weekend too. Now I have a book on Shakuhachi Flute to read by Monday (it's actually pretty interesting, the author is an American who first came to Japan on a study abroad; I wonder what it's like for Japanese readers), a short summary of this past Friday's presentation to write by this coming Friday, and my regular allotment of Japanese homework.
Since about 2 or 3 this morning, in one of my bouts of awoke-in-the-middle-of-the-night-and-couldn't-get-back-to-sleep, I began looking at graduate programs. I'm not really sure about how to start this search, so I went to phds.org and defined my own criteria. If you have a better method, I'm all ears. Anyway, I figure this ranking gives me a place to start at least. I've been reading through program descriptions and requirements and faculty profiles. I figure when I get back to campus, I can at least start looking up their stuff and reading from Jstor.
The big question though is what kind of program I actually want to join. Deepa thinks I'd probably be Anthro, but after reading online last night, I'm beginning to lean toward Comp Lit (hah! I remember the opinions I'd hear about this as a freshman, but poo on them). And then of course there's the obvious East Asian Studies/Languages & Literature. But on top of that decision there's also the scariness of it all. The po-mo and deconstructionism and such... Of course I want to know the stuff because I want to be familiar with all kinds of arguments, but I'm afraid of going to too po-mo a department for fear of being too heavily influenced. I'd like to retain *some* of my faculties of reasoning, thank you.
hard-boiled eggs.
If you thought this wasn't possible, boy did I prove you wrong. They didn't taste *that* bad (actually, the yolk was worse than the white, which seemed counterintuitive to me since the yolk is on the umm inside), but the smell was *really* not cool. I am currently trying to air out the apartment. I guess it doesn't help that I had unagi last night, and that's pretty smelly already. Heh. Y'all must have a great impression of my apartment by now...
It's been quite a week... and was something of a weekend too. Now I have a book on Shakuhachi Flute to read by Monday (it's actually pretty interesting, the author is an American who first came to Japan on a study abroad; I wonder what it's like for Japanese readers), a short summary of this past Friday's presentation to write by this coming Friday, and my regular allotment of Japanese homework.
Since about 2 or 3 this morning, in one of my bouts of awoke-in-the-middle-of-the-night-and-couldn't-get-back-to-sleep, I began looking at graduate programs. I'm not really sure about how to start this search, so I went to phds.org and defined my own criteria. If you have a better method, I'm all ears. Anyway, I figure this ranking gives me a place to start at least. I've been reading through program descriptions and requirements and faculty profiles. I figure when I get back to campus, I can at least start looking up their stuff and reading from Jstor.
The big question though is what kind of program I actually want to join. Deepa thinks I'd probably be Anthro, but after reading online last night, I'm beginning to lean toward Comp Lit (hah! I remember the opinions I'd hear about this as a freshman, but poo on them). And then of course there's the obvious East Asian Studies/Languages & Literature. But on top of that decision there's also the scariness of it all. The po-mo and deconstructionism and such... Of course I want to know the stuff because I want to be familiar with all kinds of arguments, but I'm afraid of going to too po-mo a department for fear of being too heavily influenced. I'd like to retain *some* of my faculties of reasoning, thank you.
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