Wednesday, May 6, 2015

All of a sudden

There are way too many things to take care of.
I need a Canadian visa to attend the job fair in August...and visit home in June (the only time we can go) with Mike. Unless I get the visa in time we can't go. I personally do not give a shit whether we go or not because it is probably at the bottom of my priority list, however Mike and my family does, but I am the one responsible for making sure it happens, otherwise its my fault.
There are 3 conferences, 2 before and 1 after I defend my proposal. Thats 4 things in total. I wish the conferences went like me saying hello, heres my paper, blah blah, bye. But what I have to do is schmooze, my skill level at schmoozing: zero. I have to prepare for the schmoozing and ofcourse the presentation itself. I have to schmooze and be someone I absolutely am not so that someone takes notice and maybe perhaps considers hiring me.
When do I start sending out job applications by the way? Right.
The proposal itself needs me to more or less hand collect data, so that it would be twice the size of what it originally was. Not to mention the analysis that follows and all the uncertainty around how this new data would change all the papers.
I need to talk to a professor who usually makes things more difficult for me than it needs to be, so that I can declare the minor that I want instead of a minor that is convenient for others. I see this talk going very favorably.
I also need to write a paper by the end of the semester so that my coursework is complete and my committee can sign off on the proposal. Meanwhile, we still need to find an external committee member and I am supposed to send out a list of potential people I might care for. I am not doing this unless someone holds me at gunpoint. As if my opinion matters.
All this in less than a month. I have lost it.

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