I am back in the blogosphere after another trip out of town, this one to Northampton to help the chosen fam out with their new home purchase. I spent a few days tearing out sub-flooring, which I have to say was amazingly therapeutic: I didn’t think about my dissertation or the job market even once. Problem is, now I am back, and apparently still not thinking about my dissertation or the job market. My brain is on a work slow-down in protest of long hours and insufficient rewards. So, in a classic pacification strategy, I’m going easy on the brain and making minor concessions (sure, take a break, have a beer), knowing full well it will only lull my brain back into unwary submission. Next week, I will be cracking the whip again: you had your beers, you had your fun playing wii, now back to work! We will see how that goes.
Meanwhile, I was just asked to review an article for a journal, and the piece looks quite interesting, and actually I’m looking forward to it. Maybe just because I haven’t done enough peer-reviewing to feel burdened by it yet, but it is one apect of professionalization I’ve really enjoyed. Whenever I’ve reviewed pieces I’ve learned something new and interesting, and also gotten the satisfaction of realizing I already know a thing or two about a thing or two, and that is a nice feeling indeed (and a pleasant counter to the constant panics of insecurity being a grad student usually entails).
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