It's been a long time since I've blogged. Years, actually, since I felt like I had a story worth telling-- and perhaps even this one is not--but I think I should like to try anyway. My last several years in graduate school have offered a mixed bag of professional advancement and personal stagnation, depression, and intellectual paralysis. As I embark on the process of comprehensive examinations, the last stone on the road to that vaunted-yet-scary status of ABD, I think it might be a worthwhile project to detail the experience. It is one that proves harrowing even for the best of us, and as I prepare to get down to brass tacks I wonder how it will affect me and what new version of myself will appear on the other side. Or, naturally, if I will.
The goal of this blog over the next few months will be less to describe the details of my work, but to tackle the larger issues that present themselves in the process along with my daily struggles and strategies of coping and avoidance. To this end I plan to be as candid as possible while still preserving whatever degree of anonymity the internet can provide me. I hold no illusion that any sufficiently interested party would not be able to trace this blog to my real personal and professional identity--perhaps it is even this inherent gamble that drives many of us to splatter our lives up on the internet for the reading pleasure of the shadowy masses. Or perhaps it's simply the incomparably self-absorbed and equally mistaken notion that our trials and travails are actually interesting enough for other to follow and consider.
Or maybe it's just another means of distraction.
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