Things I Will Do Between My MA and my PhD

1. Read. I will have almost three months this summer where I’m not working on my thesis, or doing massive amounts of prep for a course I’ve never taught before. The free time is all going into books; fiction, non-fiction, short fiction, graphic novels, I’m reading it all. I haven’t read anything purely for pleasure in so long that I’m not even sure where I should begin - new Harry Potter releases are a thing of the past, and Alison Bechdel’s new memoir was, as of last year’s Comic-Con, something in the moderately distant future. If anyone’s read any good books lately (non-fiction, short fiction, novels or graphic novels - I’m not picky), feel free to share the scoop.

2. Head to Comic-Con, this time for the full event. I went last year - again, just to see/hear Bechdel speak - and the one day just didn’t whet my appetite. Since I’m moving part-way across the country and I’ll continue being a poor grad student for the next four years, I’m anticipating not having the money to come back for quite a while (unless it miraculously starts to count as “research”). Thus, I plan to spend this summer reveling in four days of geeky, geeky goodness.

3. Blog. Likely a lot more. Possibly with the Blogathon (possibly running Blogathon?), possibly not, but I’ll definitely be around here more frequently. Aren’t you lucky? And then, of course, there’s number four, about which I am most excited…

4. Restarting The Fat Diaries, which went MIA a couple of months after it was sent out. Keep an eye here for more news on that as it develops. Woo!