sigelphoenix

Remember my whining about my thesis a few weeks ago? And how I didn't know who my faculty advisor would be? I had sent out a few requests to two people I thought would be compatible, but figured that a) professors were gone for the summer and I wouldn't hear back, and b) it was too short notice to start this Autumn Quarter.

The consequence would be that I couldn't start until Winter Quarter, thus requiring me to stay through the summer to finish up the 3-quarter thesis series. I decided that might actually work, though, because my Autumn Quarter looks so busy anyway - I have a full load of classes already, all of which are with professors/topics I really want; I'll be starting up my peer presentations with C.O.R.E.; my work will get really busy, because I work in an academic office and it'll be the beginning of the school year. Plus, waiting until winter would mean that I could take more time to decide on my topic.

I knew I shouldn't have said anything. Yesterday I got email replies from both of them.

One is the professor from the science fiction course I took last fall, who's interested in both comic books and feminism. I like his teaching style, and he likes my writing, and he's happy to be my advisor. It'd be perfect - except that he's from the English department, not Women Studies, and the WS department kind of frowns on that, and I may or may not be able to appeal. (He also recommended to me another English professor who teaches courses on comic books, and who also happens to be adjunct WS faculty, though she is unavailable for a couple of weeks.) The other professor who replied is from Women Studies and specializes in pop culture, though I don't know how much she knows about comic books. We don't know each other, but she said she would talk to me about it.

So ... instead of no advisor, I might have three. O_o;; And I guess I will start this quarter, after all. Which is possible. I think. *deep breaths*

Oh, and on top of that? I just got handed a massive and time-sensitive project at work, and have temporarily switched to full-time. The project requires me to be out of the office for most of the day (and therefore unable to do any of my other tasks). It's not too bad, since my co-worker is also doing it with me, and we can tag-team in order to take care of our other responsibilities. But right now, our receptionist is training for a new position (in the same department), and can only act as receptionist about half the time - so my co-worker and I are supposed to make up the rest of the time. But it's hard to cover the front desk of the office when you're, you know, not in the office.

Oh yeah, and my co-worker is going to be gone next week. WHEE.

*more deep breaths*

I'm glad my thesis is progressing, but I hate having my academic plans tossed around. I'm glad to be working full-time and getting money, but I hate being crazy-busy. I think I need to go home. _o_