Whining and Venting

[lavendertook]

I haven't heard a damn thing yet from my prof about that paper I handed in two weeks ago, not even an acknowledgment of my emails, and it's driving me batty!!!! I do want to work on revising it for submitting to a journal, but if it doesn't meet academic approval then I can forget it. So I really hope to hear from the other prof soon, the Tolkien scholar, but I'm not her student and she's got other things to tend to first so I don't want to pressure her.

I took off the day from work today to get this second damn paper done, even though it took being told what a crappy worker I am by my supervisor to get the day off--and I am a crappy worker part of the time--but this was not the time to berate me. Sucks.)-:

OK, so I recovered from that now, and I'm gonna write. And it will be done this week. And bureaucratic paper work will be done. And my life will change one way or another--and that's a good thing, right? I'll either be working slowly on a dissertation or start seriously drawing again--one or the other (and hopefully find a new job with health benefits first--so scary in this current climate.) And I can start reconnecting with my old friends again. And send out cards. And go out and make some local friends. And keep playing with my puppets and the online friends I've been so lucky to make.

But now just got to focus on this damn overly verbose postcolonial theory stuff and the film "Fire". Yeah. So back to it. I.can.do.this. Yeah.

Comments

[anneheart.livejournal.com]

Ah, instructors (not me, of course, but I only play a grade school teacher when others are sick; don't know if that counts) are terrible about getting back to you (and by "you" I mean all of us who turn things in and wait and wait and wait - it's not just you, is what I mean to say). I've been tutoring students who can't go into the middle school because of the Mystery Rash (long story). When I first started, I requested work from all of their teachers.

And I waited. And waited. And was ignored in the halls or got very brief, unhelpful suggestions ("read chapter 12") as the teachers passed me in the halls. Not all of them were like that - the two long-term subs have been wonderful with giving work and the rubrics with which to evaluate it. The other teachers .... nada.

Eventually, after the twins' mother called a few times, we got a brief response and some work; but for the most part, it feels like the teachers have better things to do that help these two students. I'm sure there's more to it than that, of course. Even so - bothersome.

*give chocolate hobbit 'cause chocolate and hobbits are good*

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Understood--thanks. The profs here vary--some are excellent about a week turnaround, many are not. It's just very frustrating because as a TA I felt so very pressured to have a quick turnaround on papers to my students to the detriment of my own work, whereas many of the profs feel no such obligation to their students, including grad students, who really do need to be made a priority. But, hey, that's not going to happen. The double standards in academia are maddening.

My mother is a public school sub--it's a very thankless and underpaid job, but I know she plays a role that makes a difference for some of the kids that see her year after year in a way that the teachers that just have them in class for one year do not.

That is a goood combo--thank you.(-:(-:

[timberwolfoz.livejournal.com]

No advice, no comments, just *HUGS* and good wishes.

Mwah. Thinking of you.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

*SNUGS Back!!!* Ty, sweetie! MUCH appreciated.

Been thinking of you too. And wondering when we'll have the next piece of the PS. Wondering just how many days two hobbits can stay on a beach making love. (-;

[timberwolfoz.livejournal.com]

Aww, ta.

There's a bit that's ready to go, but I'm not too sure about the following bits... head has not been terribly together to work on them.

But I should put out the next bit, yes.

5 days. ;) And yes, I know they're shagging a lot, but does all the other stuff they're working through show? If not, I'm posting a series of PWP's... :(

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Hugs!

Yay!

If one read the last section without what precedes it they might take it for PWP, but there's definitely some emotional issues being discussed. I think you have to read the whole sequence to get the whole emotional weight of the issues in each piece, which is what a reader is meant to do. So, no, it's not PWP. It's lovely. (-:

Still no word, eh?

[abandonada.livejournal.com]

Yes, you can do this. I know you can. I have faith in you. Hang in there.

Keep us informed.

No, dammit! That fucker! (-;

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you, dear! In a better frame of mind today and trying my best.(-:

Of course I will. *Hugs!*

[spookystoy.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for change?! Best wishes on the job search of course, but I hope you do get a chance to start drawing again (and that you'll share the results).

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Hopeful hurrah. (-;/-: Thank you, and you with yours. We will root for each other. (-: And I will; I'll share some of my old stuff too if I ever get a scanner.(-: