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| Xmas is too close to Exams |
| 12.18.04 (10:26 am) [edit] |
Last night I submitted my Ph.D. exam questions and will now have to buckle down and prepare hard for the exam January 5. Once that's done, there's only the dissertation left, which means a) I'll be relatively portable, and b) I've got a new way of life to get used to. I'm considering applying to be the writer in residence at the Vancouver Public Library which, if they're nutty enough to have me, will let me live in a library and devote myself to doing academic and creative time.
Come to think of it, as much as I've been itching to travel (Jessica, my belle for the last few months, has travelled quite a bit and it's part of her fabric, in multiple senses of the word), having a university library carrel and the local underground coffee shop nearby has amounted to as close to paradise as I've been able to figure at this stage of my life. Being a writer in residence in a library. What kind of world produces this sort of utopian conditions, really now.
It's somewhat odd to realize that you've reached the requirements for these kinds of careers, to look down the list of criteria (Canadian citizen? Sure. At least one well-regarded publication? Check.) and to discover that you're at least minimally qualified for the position. All minor variables like similarly qualified candidates for the position aside, yes, they're talking to you. Which is probably why the marketing manager for your publisher sent you the posting in the first place.
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