April 7th, 2017

 Good news. Bad news. Good news. Nothing News.

Good news:
I got accepted into the Sustainable Futures Summer Intensive. WOOHOO! One Mad Week of sustainability lectures. In there, I have to somehow manage to write a 15 page paper and prepare a final presentation on that paper. Holy shit.... crazy! Holy..... oh no. A presentation... in front of all those people? Uhhhhhhh...... Maybe I will rethink this. Maybe I could uhm... record it from home and call in sick?

Bad news:
My paper "There is no I in Madyamaka" was rejected by the JRC. As I suspected, it was way too long for the journal. They asked if I could condense it to 10 pages and maybe then submit it to the JRC... when it is more on that theme. Or, they suggested, I try to present it at the AGIC, the graduate student conference. Uh... no. If I do not HAVE to give a presentation, I sure as hell am not going to.

Good news:
I got an A from that teacher and course on Silk Roads. Either somehow I managed a spectacular paper while hating every second of everything of the course and the writing, or the teacher received his evaluation from the Chair of the department and realized his job was at risk. Either way, I have an A for my paper about Tea Culture on the Silk Road.

Nothing new:
How is the apartment and roommate hunting going? Yup, you got it... NOTHING! I still got nothing. Granted, I was rather focused work contracts and school papers.