So this past week has been Oktoberfest. I decided (on my usualy Thursday night forray out with my friends) to visit one of these "festhallen" to see what it was all about. It was quite fun. We had lots of beeer and polka-ed until 1 am, when they kick everyone out. I am tired today...
I have my family coming to visit me this weekend. We're all going out to Oktoberfest together, since they've never been. This means I have to clean my house. Great... It's not that messy, but I have other things I need to be doing!
As a grad student, I worry about my health sometimes, mainly because I drink too much, eat the wrong foods (due to ease/speed of preparation or acquisition), and don't get enough exercise or sleep. So I am trying to turn over a new leaf. I went to a bikram yoga class yesterday. For those of you unfamiliar with bikram yoga, let me "enlighten" you (pun very much intended). Bikram yoga is much like regular yoga, except it is done in a room so hot that it rivals the deepest pits of hell. The room is literally heated to approximately 44 degrees celcius. Not only are you expected to stay in the room for 90 minutes, they want you to be active and do yoga. Hmmm. It feels good afterwards, but mainly because you come to appreciate being in a normal temperature. When you exit the room, you feel a relief like nothing else you can experience. It's good for me, and I shouldn't complain about it. I will probably go back. I am a glutton for punishment. Hence, I am in grad school.
Speaking of grad school, I met another grad student the other day who was still working on his OGS and SSHRC applications (HAHA!) and he was telling me about a dream he had about said external funding agencies. He dreamed that SSHRC and OGS were PEOPLE and they had singular, personififed identities. I thought this was hilarious. He said it freaked him out a lot and then he woke up. I told him that maybe he had just been reading too much allegory. Only an English Literature grad student would find that joke funny. It cracked him right up.
So I am working on a book review for Rawi Hage's new novel Cockroach. I suppose I'd better get back to it, since I told them I would get them somthing today, and I still have 150 pages to read! Maybe I can read and vacuum at the same time...
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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I wish SSHRC was an embodied entity, then I could kick it in the shins.
I think it's hilarious how in grad school a "break" is doing laundry, or some other work-like activity! I wonder what it's going to be like to be able to SLEEP for a break...hmmm....it's definitely an interesting concept.
Reading and vacuuming... hmmm, let me know if you get the hang of that!
Awww, i miss Thursday nights with you guys! We should have done Oktoberfest last year too.
Just finished SSHRC last week, Karen, it was such a relief.
Enjoying your blog!
Oh, that last post from me, Agnes
SOME of us are still working on SSHRC, please don't hate.
p.s. Orientalism
Bikram yoga? That's really impressive. I know a few people who actually passed out during their first Bikram class.
I don't think I could handle the heat of bikram - bravo for being so brave!
Reading your blog makes me grateful I waited to do my PhD! I am very happy at OISE and life sounds a great deal easier than yours. Maybe when you have a few days off, or a break in the craziness - we can hang out?
Be the amazing person you always are hun! I know you will do just fine :)
Dandy - The reading and vacuuming didn`t work very well. Neither the floor nor the book got enough
attention.
Bedouin Project - I don`t hate, I just pity...
Nightshade - That would be awesome. We should plan something for Christmastime.
Solution: You need to train your boyfriend to vacuum for you! I told mine (when I was super busy) that it would turn me on and that he would do a much better job at it then I would. Since then when I don't have time to vacuum before he comes to visit, he does it for me. Nothing like sitting on the couch and eating chocolate while watching someone else vacuum for you! Please don't judge me - he enjoys it!
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