{"id":2075,"date":"2007-10-08T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/08\/needing-more-of-kates-determination\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T20:16:00","slug":"needing-more-of-kates-determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/08\/needing-more-of-kates-determination\/","title":{"rendered":"Needing more of Kate&#8217;s determination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve agreed to TA the Complex Emergencies course again this fall (starts October 18th).  A new twist: we have a <a href=\"http:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/community\/models-mentors\/sheri_fink.html\">visiting faculty<\/a> coming.  This is a great opportunity and I&#8217;m excited about it. There is also a second TA for the course (a grad student who took the class last fall) which is even more exciting since there is a remote possibility I won&#8217;t be working 100 or so hours of free overtime like last year.  I&#8217;ll spare the details of how Tulane TAs are slave labor except to say that I cannot believe anyone complained about the situation for Michigan GSIs, ever. (That Michigan<a href=\"http:\/\/www.umgeo.org\/\"> student labor group<\/a> is the most incredible social justice machine on the planet.)<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RwvmlSjL_iI\/AAAAAAAACrA\/1NuQyM8xuBQ\/s1600-h\/IMG_4645.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/RwvmlSjL_iI\/AAAAAAAACrA\/1NuQyM8xuBQ\/s400\/IMG_4645.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119438929745673762\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>As a result, I&#8217;m feeling even more pressure to get this prospectus done.  And I was SO CLOSE.  Then I had to open up that can of worms.  And reach out with questions to old <a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlb.aub.edu.lb\/%7Ewebbultn\/v7n1\/20.html\">Michigan<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sph.umich.edu\/crech\/Training_Doctoral\/Training_Doctoral_grads_1.htm\">colleagues<\/a>.  And get more ideas.  And like them.  And now, well, now I&#8217;ve got this mess and although I think I have it straight in my head, am having the damnest time putting it all down on paper.  Why couldn&#8217;t I have stuck with the simple design and just defended??  I seem to have some sort of mental block in front of making this next step.  How do people actually finish this degree?  With kids?  And life?  And mental blocks?<\/p>\n<p>In short, we are gearing up for two really really nonstop busy months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve agreed to TA the Complex Emergencies course again this fall (starts October 18th). A new twist: we have a visiting faculty coming. This is a great opportunity and I&#8217;m excited about it. There is also a second TA for the course (a grad student who took the class last fall) which is even more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}