January 5, 2008

Spark My Blog

Filed under: Blogocracy, Academia

I’m rethinking this whole grad school thing. What if I do want to blog for a living? I’m not sure I can picture myself being a professor, studying for the lit GRE (and taking it), being scholarly for the rest of my days.

What I’d like to do before class starts up again is makeover my personal blog and think about my own niche blog to work on, something on which I can put Google Ads and that people will actually want to read. Who knows? Maybe I’ll return to sex. I’ve had many brief stints. Now I need something to maintain until I graduate.

Maybe something literary, like Sparknotes but with a brain and some soul. A guide to English literature. Promising, n’est-ce pas?

December 21, 2007

No Such Thing as ‘A for Effort’

Filed under: Academia

I got my first A in my major today. I swear I’m not stupid–English at Cal is incredibly difficult. I should have been a French major. At least then I’d have a 4.0 GPA for my major.

December 11, 2007

Productive?

Filed under: Academia

Progress made:

  • papers organized
  • laundry done
  • room cleaned
  • books of poetry bought
  • 200+ lead in Scrabulous achieved
  • one introductory paragraph written