Wednesday, March 18, 2015. I nearly resigned a couple of times but decided to wait it out and see how the new Big Giant Head worked out. During the evolution of Project Insanity from amoebic feasibility study to full-blown multicellular apex terror, my position in the center seems to have morphed from data analyst to something closer to a project manager. Thursday, April 3, 2014.

Monday, August 28, 2017. Well, This is Upsetting. If any of you are still out there. If youre making a writing or coaching or whatevering career out of the postacademic world, then of course. Friday, April 22, 2016.

The PhD and Everything After. Your Dissertation Lit Review was a Waste of Time, and Other Lessons from the Service Economy. The last few posts have described my latest post-academic gig at a tech firm where I am paid hourly to do administrative work. The firm may be temporary too. Who can tell? Did it result in more business for the firm? That there won.

Suffering in the Arts and Academia. Although I suppose you do sometimes find people who compete to work the hardest and sleep the least.

In Leaving Acadmia - Process, Story. Coming Up for Air, Facing Reality, and One Night Stands. In Leaving Acadmia - Process, Story. In Leaving Acadmia - Process, Story.

I took this selfie after writing this piece. This was written at the end of an intense affair with an otherwise-engaged man in 2007. We used to have a joke about me being poisonous.

Writing a dissertation is not like that. I thought I would graduate in December, and then in May, and now it is August. How is it any different than before? So how do I convince myself now that I really am almost done? Sunday night, 10 pm. After my initial complete meltdo.