Symposium

We had a graduate symposium this weekend, and I think we all had a pretty awesome time. We each had an hour to present a paper and get some feedback.

I presented my piece on the performing experience of performance ethnography.

I really enjoyed the papers and conversations, the inside jokes about the anatomy of particular professors, and the various mediums through which my classmates explored psychotherapy and research.

It makes me realizes how much I'll miss everyone when I finish my course work.

And such is the ambivalence of being a doctoral student!

There are days when I freaking despise my life, when I wonder why the hell I subject myself to this. Even in the midst of all of that, I know that I'll miss my intellectual community when I go.