Tuesday's Rant

Apparently, I am ready to do anything other than finish my Victorian seminar paper.  Including blogging.  I mean, does anyone else find it suspicious that I have blogged twice in the last week but I hadn't blogged twice in the last 3 months?  But, I do have to admit that there's finally enough pressure for me to actually get myself in gear and focus on the paper.  And I think I know where I'm taking it.  Albeit, I am in for a lot more revision than I initially intended, but, well, what else is new?

My rant is in regard to teaching.  It's hard to be a TA for a class where you have some teaching responsibilities, and some grading responsibilities, and some administrative responsibilities, but no final decision on anything.  Over the last five months I have learned that I very much like to be the sole authority in the classroom--what I mean is, I like having the final decision.  I dislike having to ask for permission.  I can't wait until I have my own class again in the summer.  Which is actually in less than three weeks, so I really ought to get started on planning my readings and assignments.  Of course, that will just have to wait until I finish both of my seminar papers.  Oddly, that brings me back to needing to work on my Victorian paper.  Right now in fact!

Random Thoughts

Oddly enough, I've been twittering (tweeting?) and hence I have neglected my blog.  Perhaps more odd is that all this twittering has made me want to blog.  Go figure.  It probably has something to do with being limited to only 140 characters.  Twitter forces me to be succinct and concise and to the point and that is so not me.  I like rambling on and on about nothing of real consequences.  

For example, why is it that MS Word won't just figure out that because of my research interests, there will be lots of British spellings in my documents and stop changing them to the Americanized version?  

My final paper for my Victorian seminar is going absolutely nowhere fast.  Why is it that I just can't seem to find one solid source that discusses depictions of violence in Victorian children's literature?  I mean SOMEONE has got to have written a paper or an entire book on that by now, right? What are all these tenured academics doing anyway?

I just inhaled a very large glass of water and I'm still parched!

The other day I was told that I walk very fast.  Truly?  This leads me to wonder if walking with someone is like dancing with someone?  You know, if you dance terribly together then you're relationship is doomed.  Does the same hold true for walking?  If your walking paces don't match up then your relationship is also doomed?  Some clarity or insight would be nice here.

On Monday, I have to give a 5-10 minute summary of the paper I'll be writing for my theory class.  Notice the verb tense there.  I haven't started writing it yet.  I'm pretty sure that I'm going to have to BS my way through that 5-10 minutes and hope that no one asks any questions.