My community
Day job: Trying not to blog too much. I've given up trying-not-to-blog.
My community:I heard on the radio today that there are approx. 14 million bloggers. 10% have news blogs which I love; that's 1 million. I love being part of this community.
My concerns: Blogging is addictive and obsessive so I'll try to find a balance in my life while I have my other day job of thesis writing.
My other day job: I'm writing about language shift, language death (sounds morbid) and immigrants who keep up transnational links. I like these topics. I can relate to them as a member of my other community which is a bunch of immigrants who are not sure whether they are ethnics or not.
The state of my heart: Thesis-writing causes low self-esteem and heart-ache. I can't believe that is how things should be. Surely such a high-level educational experience should be uplifting. Maybe it's because I'm a long-term post grad or because I'm an external student. I feel like I'm in the wrong place, at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing.
Where to now: Keep writing. My mother told me things always change, that doors open when you least expect them.
8 Comments:
Madi, you need to turn on "word verification" to stop spam morons like cowboy!
Am reading "Fire Fire"......interesting.
Madi - my heart goes out to you. I thought of you today when I was reading The Australian (see - I don't ONLY buy it for the Sudoku! Which was hard today, BTW, but I got it after a siesta).
The Australian newspaper Postgrad Special, p5, says "One of the ways postgraduate students [external] can break through this barrier [feeling isolated] is through their postgraduate student association." It goes on to explain about the various kinds of support they offer. Might not be relevant to you, but hey, who knows.
Page 14 featured Jim Cumming who is doing a doctorate on people's experiences of doing a doctorate! He has a BLOG (!!) which may be found at doctoralpractices.blogspot.com
Also, any sage advice for couples trying to negotiate what continent they should live on...?
Michelle thanks for the tech advice.
Justine thanks for the blog. Good one.
The best continent because nobody wants to know about it.
Well, I just visited Jim's blog. Wasn't quite what I'd been hoping for myself. Which country would you say more people would like to know less about: here or Norway?
Hmmm, not too certain i agree on the isolation. I thrive on be an external student without having to listen to the young ones rants. Or having to appear on campus for tutes or lectures. I love the peace and quiet and know if i have any pressing questions the Uni is just a phonecall away.
As far as thesis goes, i have 3 friends all trying to complete theirs. All 3 work and have families, 2 female 1 male. All of them have the feelings you do Madi, none from isolation all from the amount of time it's taken them to finish. Every one of them have used or is using the max 10 years with one applying for extention.
I believe it's an individual thing. If your someone that likes to socialise, mixwith others in the same boat doing the same thing, then sure you'll feel like that.
LOL, personally, i deal with so many people who ave lost the plot, it's nice not having to mix with anyone!
Justine, Norway is still part of a continent that everyone wants to know about.
Australia is a continent, country and political system that nobody cares much about. In the current climate of warmongering, world poverty, political corruption and dirty deals, I still pick the land downunder.
Michelle, I love being part of your community where being wounded, or a long suffering victim is the norm, almost exhalted. It's almost like being a Goth where ugliness is glorified, where sitting in a corner and sulking is a good vampire-death-cult look.
Yay for all of us eccentrics who have lost-the-plot. Long may we prevail and give the world an alternative, slightly more insigthful perspectives.
Thanks both of you for your comments.
Madi, what are you talking about? I'M completely NORMAL!!!! :-)
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