Waiting

Waiting, waiting, waiting. I hate waiting. I have passed my comps (yeah!) and I am mostly done with my classes now. It looks like I will pass the classes and graduate just fine. Now we are just waiting to hear back from schools and Ph.D. programs. Hopefully we will hear back within a few weeks. In the meantime, we are waiting to head back to Fargo in two weeks for a conference I will be presenting at. I will be showing how the genre of Kunstlerroman with its inherent conflicts can be transposed onto Sartrean psychoanalysis. I will be illustrating this point with Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World. Should be great laughs for all involved.

We are also waiting for Spring. I am on "spring vacation" right now, but the temperatures are still in the 30s at best, there is still snow on the ground, and the sun has not been visible all week. This is a joke. Call me old fashioned, but when I have spring break, I want it to be in the spring. Anyway, we will let everyone know our future as we learn about it.