It is entirely possible that I just reached my dunf’r*
state. I started a new class today. Really excited about what I’ll be learning,
happy to have some projects other than papers to write, but a smidge
overwhelmed at the amount of reading that will be required of me. It’s a lot and it’s also going along with the
other class I’m taking that also has a pretty sizeable read-load every
week. And my big projects are coming up
soon. The end of class stuff. Papers, interviews, research, theorizing, all
that good stuff. Anyway, my dunf’r. So I’m reading a sentence with a new word in
it. I’ve seen a few of those today. Not too shabby for a fairly intelligent &
well-educated gal, huh? It’s been a good
learning day. So I’m trying to
understand this word. It’s fairly
familiar, and I’m pretty sure that I can figure out the meaning of it, even
though I wasn’t really concentrating on that part yet. I was just trying to sound it out because I
read that way in my head. I don’t
normally say the words as I’m reading unless I really need to concentrate on
one part, but my brain still processes things by knowing what the word is as I’m
reading. This word just was not coming
to me. I was coming up with feel-o-SO-fizing,
filo-so-FIZING, feel-o-sop-hizing?… Oh
crap. Philosophizing. I know that word. It’s what happens when you’ve been reading
too long and suddenly realize that you should put your book down, like,
now.
Time to give this tired brain a break. I’ll be back soon with thoughts on my new
class. Culture. Diversity. Acceptance. Difference & same & everything else that makes a lot of no sense.
Those aren’t the thoughts but that’s what they’ll be about. This is going to be an interesting eight
weeks!
*Dunf’r is my version, a-hem, my tired and slightly
countrified version of "done for". It’s
more like a dunfer but even that extra ‘e’ takes too much energy at this
point. Dunf’r.
