On a less intellectual or theoretical note, it is now end of term for the Spring semester here at FSU. This, for me, represents the last semester of coursework. I have an actual, honest-to-einstein final exam (wtf?) next week, and a major project due tomorrow that needs to be finished today, but that’s it.
Let me repeat: THAT IS IT.
I have a fantastic internship lined up for the summer with my mentor, a couple of conferences I’m going to, and some papers I hope to get published. Other than that, I’m FREE of graduate school work! No more classes! No group assignments! No discussion board posts! No cramming a reading in late at night with blurry eyes! FREE!
At least for now…Mentor is pushing for PhD studies, which I’m not as opposed to as I was earlier this year, but I’m still taking a year off because I’m burnt out.
Also, I’m ending this term the way I started it: coughing. If you don’t remember, I contracted whooping cough right before the winter holidays and that bitch hung in until late January (at which point my back gave out catastrophically due to all the coughing, making it difficult for me to walk, sit or lie down for the following month). Well, earlier this month I got a face full of mold on the job (archives=dirty job!) which resulted in a bad case of asthma (something I don’t suffer from otherwise), involving a lot of wheezing and, yes, coughing.
The meds ran their course and I’m doing much better, but don’t walk behind me because I’m prone to stopping suddenly, bending in half, and trying to cough a lung up.
I’ll be job hunting like a fiend later, and thinking about PhD studies (would love to go to London to do it, but that would be incredibly expensive). Trying to find a place at the convergence of InfoSci, bibliography, archives and the history of text technology…yeah, I never take the easy way out.
But a week from now, I’ll be FREE. And I intend to make the most of it!
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