Summer drawing to a close…
Between the China trip earlier in the summer (interesting posts about the schools I saw there another time!), and taking a vacation in Mexico, the settling-into-home-and-having-more-time part of summer didn’t happen until July. Then a relaxing month, where having *only* a full-time job felt like a vacation. But it also felt like a chance to let the year percolate in my mind, let the new ideas learned settle. Now I am beginning to feel ready to take on my intellectual work wholeheartedly again.
Like plants or trees, this graduate school intellectual growth continues to happen even when unattended. I feel ready to go back to the cultivating, pulling weeds again, grappling with where I want to end up, and weathering the storms of work and school combined.