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February’s almost over and my to-do list is shrinking

Done:
1. Read/skimmed 6 biographies.
2. Applied for a job.
3. Met with my supervisor about a revision of chapter 1. She liked it and suggested minor changes (this means I get to spend a heck of a lot of time reading FICTION! Folks, this is exciting. Who would’ve thought I’d be getting a PhD in English and spend so much time away from the stuff?)
4. Finished my work-in-progress paper for STAR on genre and transatlantic studies. It, amazingly, went pretty well. I think my supervisor was impressed I wrote it all in one weekend. (Now I don’t know if this is impressive because it was good or because it was utter crap).
5. Tutorial on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness successfully taught. We even got into a little conversation about if art was required to be moral. (Anyone care to take a gander on that one?)
6. Student essays marked and returned.
7. Plane tickets purchased.
8. Sarah’s surprise baby shower went off without a hitch (well, minus the small incident with the fondue catching on fire) and she was fantastically surprised!

Still to do:
1. Read/skim 6 more biographies by (new, later deadline!! the heavens rejoice!) 10 March.
2. Teach a tutorial on Ezra Pound on Tuesday.
3. Read some of George Steiner’s Real Presences for my Christian Literary Theory reading group.
4. Get together a list of ’suggested reading’ for my research project for my supervisors, by, uh, tomorrow.
5. Read fiction!! :)
6. Most pressing, I still need to finish the book and book review by the beginning of March.

So, all in all, less stress and more smiles are coming from this direction. This could be due to: developing a cleaning rota so I don’t go bonkers, watching 24 while skimming biographies, enjoying lots of tea and biscuits with my officemate, and wearing my red coat.

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5 Responses to “February’s almost over and my to-do list is shrinking”

  1. Katie Says:
    February 25th, 2006 at 5:53 pm

    Hey–what job did you apply for? :)

  2. Ashley Says:
    February 25th, 2006 at 11:52 pm

    Katie, I emailed you about it :)

  3. Sheena Says:
    February 26th, 2006 at 8:31 pm

    How can you be ’skimming books’ whilst watching 24? It’s not possible!!

  4. Katie Says:
    February 27th, 2006 at 2:37 am

    Thanks for the e-mail. :) And from what I know about 24, I agree!–but then again, you are quite the skimmer…

  5. Ashley Says:
    February 27th, 2006 at 10:57 am

    Sheena, it’s only (sometimes) possible to skim books because I’ve already seen the season of 24 we’re watching on DVD! We are going to have a 24 party on the 24th of March (season 4 on DVD), yay!