If you divided your life into chapters what would you call them? What chapter are you in now? What chapter is next?
- December 15 - Chapters.
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So, I submit:
Why Do I Do These Things to Myself?: A Memoir of a Self-Piteous Depressive
(Because if I don't pity myself, who will?)
Chapter 1: "Wait, We Ordered a Child, Not This Squawking, Squirmy Thing!": I Am a Prodigy of Self-Loathing
Chapter 2: Were the Brothers a Necessary Addition?: I Enter the World of Misogyny
Chapter 3: Fake a Happy Childhood and Ignore the Misogyny to Avoid the Beatings Until Moral Improves: I Escape into Books, Learn to Pretend, and Write Novels
Chapter 4: The Ophelia Years: Is High School Really Necessary and Useful to Anyone?
Chapter 5: Minimum Wage Sucks!: O.K., so the Parental Unit Was Right about Something
Chapter 6: Credit for Reading Great Books: Yeah, the School is Sub-Par, but It Opens a World that Minimum Wage Can't
Chapter 7: The Breakdown: I Reach the Limits of Being a Good Little Girl and Collapse for Two Years Straight
Chapter 8: The Miracle of Prozac
Chapter 9: They Can Kill You But they Can't Eat You -- Can They?: Who Says Grad School Isn't the "Real World"? People in the "Real World" Could Never Survive this Beatdown
Chapter 10: The Miracle of Prozac and Feminism: I Become Obnoxious but Awake
Chapter 11: Doctorate Attained: You Earn the Damn PhD from the Shit They Put You Through, but They Won't Give it to You Until You Finish the Damn Dissertation
Chapter 12: Finding The Big Guy
Chapter 13: The Road Not Taken Was Not Taken For a Reason
Chapter 14: Stepping Stones In Something Approximating the Right Direction
Chapter 15: The Miracle of Psychoanalysis: Dismantling a Lot of Fundamental, Bad Ideas - with Peeps!
Chapter 16: Holy Shit! I Might Actually Have a "Happily Ever After"! [Current chapter]
Chapter 17: Now, How Will I Manage to Royally Fuck It Up? [Next chapter]
The End!
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4 comments:
That is amazing! Great chapter titles (and you struck a bunch of chords with me/my experiences, wow).
But you're *not* Self-Piteous. You are awesome.
Where is the chapter on how meeting vuboq changed your life? ;-)
Also, wrong post for this comment, but i'm too lazy to scroll down. Have you looked into getting a GPS watch for your runs? That would help you track mileage/pace info. Nike and Garmen (sp?) are the two most popular brands.
I'm a military history Ph.D. candidate, so probably not your usual readership, but I really enjoy reading your blog and this post.
XKCD doesn't hit much for historians, but this one on becoming great is particularly apropos for this post:
http://xkcd.com/896/
I am the satisfied owner of a Garmin Forerunner GPS and I really swear by it. The long runs have helped me think through stuff I need to do for my own dissertation.
Ink: Thank you! You ain't so bad yourself!
VUBOQ: Did you not read the chapter about having everything I want?
VUBOQ and Decrepitude: Thanks for the suggestion. I had no idea such a gadget existed. I wish I had known in time to ask Santa!
Decreptude: Would you beleive I once almost went into military history?
Also, that's an awesome comic! Thank you, I needed it!
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