~ the job~
a day out with my new colleagues -- one from my department and one from art history. a coffee with the said colleague from english. i think, we are on our way to become friends from mere colleagues. the syllabi have been completed, the secondary articles assigned. this week i also could finally check out books from the library, and that was nice. i also got some other bureaucratic things taken care of. attended a new faculty bbq. the food wasn't bad, but very very meat heavy.
~the academic article~
done! at least for now. and has been emailed to one my colleagues for some feedback.
~ writing~
the poem i began last week has been finished. kind of! but then, as soon as i got it done, i had some ideas to expand it. i am going to let the ideas simmer a little bit before i sit down with it again. had some ideas, began compiling some of my other poems into another chapbook. it took me almost a year and half to get chapbook number one to its current shape. so, i am not expecting any miracles here. but, little progresses here and there. consistent working on a project.
~reflections~
overall, this has been a hectic but productive week. i have made some progress in almost each and every aspect of my life. but, it was also a week of realization: this is how hectic my life as an assistant professor is going to be. i will have to be extremely resourceful in finding time for my creative writing. but, it's not impossible. i am also burnt out from this week's socializing-- it was nice to hang out with my new colleagues. but, i am an introvert. i work best when i am working alone, when i can carve out hours and hours of me-time. making time and space for such solitude will also be a challenge in this new job. but what is life without a few challenges?
~links i have been reading~
Poetics of Emplacement
a day out with my new colleagues -- one from my department and one from art history. a coffee with the said colleague from english. i think, we are on our way to become friends from mere colleagues. the syllabi have been completed, the secondary articles assigned. this week i also could finally check out books from the library, and that was nice. i also got some other bureaucratic things taken care of. attended a new faculty bbq. the food wasn't bad, but very very meat heavy.
~the academic article~
done! at least for now. and has been emailed to one my colleagues for some feedback.
~ writing~
the poem i began last week has been finished. kind of! but then, as soon as i got it done, i had some ideas to expand it. i am going to let the ideas simmer a little bit before i sit down with it again. had some ideas, began compiling some of my other poems into another chapbook. it took me almost a year and half to get chapbook number one to its current shape. so, i am not expecting any miracles here. but, little progresses here and there. consistent working on a project.
~reflections~
overall, this has been a hectic but productive week. i have made some progress in almost each and every aspect of my life. but, it was also a week of realization: this is how hectic my life as an assistant professor is going to be. i will have to be extremely resourceful in finding time for my creative writing. but, it's not impossible. i am also burnt out from this week's socializing-- it was nice to hang out with my new colleagues. but, i am an introvert. i work best when i am working alone, when i can carve out hours and hours of me-time. making time and space for such solitude will also be a challenge in this new job. but what is life without a few challenges?
~links i have been reading~
Poetics of Emplacement
"A poetics of emplacement, to my mind, is entangled with the recognition that places can be in Altha Cravey and Michael Petit’s words “spatially organized as confining . . . manifest a way of knowing, and places are often objects of power created to further particular forms of domination based on gender, sexuality, race, age, class, and physical ability” (102)."
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