i really do spend the majority of my days reading, as any graduate (especially history graduate) student well knows. note this little screen-shot of a bit of my self-imposed reading list i've organized in excel (multiply this by about 5, so far! and it's only week 2!). i say self-imposed because an oxford dphil (phd) has no official teaching involved. i see my supervisor around once or twice a term, but it's all my own direction - you are left to basically figure the research out yourself. and i do know the material and what i need to read (i mean, i should by this point, right?)... but the more you read the more you need to read and so you just keep getting deeper and deeper in a pile of books and libraries.
good thing i do actually love this stuff, right? i mean look at those titles, so interesting, no?
and in other news, toni and i cycled up to blenheim palace last sunday after church. it's only 9 miles and is such a quiet respite from the busy-ness and noise of oxford's streets. it also reminds me so much of being a kid again. all those visits with the fam! it's true england.
toni's in berlin this weekend, and i'm heading to a lieder fest with a friend, some scones and tea with another, sprinkle in some more lectures and conversations and libraries, and then full evensong + formal hall to which i'll be wearing my "scholar's robes" at my college. still. i'd rather have toni home for the weekend :)
beijos, fam!,
jooj.
good thing i do actually love this stuff, right? i mean look at those titles, so interesting, no?
and in other news, toni and i cycled up to blenheim palace last sunday after church. it's only 9 miles and is such a quiet respite from the busy-ness and noise of oxford's streets. it also reminds me so much of being a kid again. all those visits with the fam! it's true england.
toni's in berlin this weekend, and i'm heading to a lieder fest with a friend, some scones and tea with another, sprinkle in some more lectures and conversations and libraries, and then full evensong + formal hall to which i'll be wearing my "scholar's robes" at my college. still. i'd rather have toni home for the weekend :)
beijos, fam!,
jooj.
4 comments:
looks like a medical degree would have been helpful for that reading list. yikes! good luck, jooj! sorry you have to be single again for a bit, that's always a let-down! love you!
hehe! les you are right - and i actually did a bit of research into trying to get a concurrent midwifery degree, but it would have been too intensive, and too expensive. alas!
i know, being single is really awful. how did i manage it so long? :) love you too!
wow of titles read. You are awesome.
So glad you are married and have handsome Toni to love and share your life.
Love you
whoa, that would have been crazy to get a midwifery degree at the same time. i don't know how you do it, jooj. glad toni is home. love you!
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