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The funk that is going around
Post-graduation funk? Multiple transition funk? In any case, I'm having a hard week. Last week was a flurry of paper writing, preparing for parents, and the incredible stress of those things. Graduation turned out to be fantastic: my friends and parents doing a wave for me in the audience as I crossed the stage to receive my MA hood. And then I attempt to hug my advisor and instead whack her in the face. "These things happen," she benignly smiled at me afterward. My father was at his best over the weekend, going so far as to espouse liberal views on politics and praise my haircut. All went well, but I still suffered a melt down on Monday.
This week is the reality of house and job hunting. Depressing. Laborious. Disheartening. It is obscenely expensive to live in the Bay Area, especially Berkeley. I long for a vacation, some 'out' at the very least, but nothing looks possible. It's been easy to be grim this week.
In book news, I finished Under the Glacier, would make a nice play I think, and have started Foreign Babes in Beijing by Rachel DeWoskin. It's new, in hardcover, has been favorably reviewed by a variety of publications, including The Economist. It looks like it'd be a chick-lit book, but instead it's a breezy but enjoyable and informative look at a young woman's life in China - fresh out of college, employed at an American PR firm and as an actress on a Chinese soap opera. So far, so good. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
donkeyfly, I think of you when I pick up this book.)
This week is the reality of house and job hunting. Depressing. Laborious. Disheartening. It is obscenely expensive to live in the Bay Area, especially Berkeley. I long for a vacation, some 'out' at the very least, but nothing looks possible. It's been easy to be grim this week.
In book news, I finished Under the Glacier, would make a nice play I think, and have started Foreign Babes in Beijing by Rachel DeWoskin. It's new, in hardcover, has been favorably reviewed by a variety of publications, including The Economist. It looks like it'd be a chick-lit book, but instead it's a breezy but enjoyable and informative look at a young woman's life in China - fresh out of college, employed at an American PR firm and as an actress on a Chinese soap opera. So far, so good. (
donkeyfly, I think of you when I pick up this book.)