Luckily, proctoring the exam the first years are taking allowed me to just sit down and blow through all six of my articles for Wednesday's class in 3 hours.  That would have taken so much longer if I was at home or with people or had the opportunity to do other shit.  So I'm actually really grateful that I was told to do this.  Now I just need to do Thursday's readings (including some from last week, since we didn't talk much about it), and then maybe I can actually start some of the final papers/my own work.  That would be super nice, methinks.

Especially since I'm still in this hopeless unhappy rut that I am trying to fake my way out of.  And I'm just convinced that I am to remain unhappy and miserable especially during these years of graduate school.  That even if I get into something I enjoy I will eventually hate it or get bored with it and want to move to something else, which is not the way academia runs.  You're supposed to be an expert in a given area, not a jack-of-all-trades type, which is what I would rather be.  I have plenty I'm not interested in, sure, but I also have a ton of stuff I really am into, spanning across all three of the main subfields.

I have not yet decided if I am going to head to UC for Airband, simply because I'm not sure if I have the time.  Though it would be nice, I think, to go somewhere for a day or a weekend or something and get out of Binghamton.  I know the week after Airband I'm going to Chicago for Midwest, but at the same time...that is for school still.  Despite being away from Binghamton, I'll still be working and around everyone from Bing, which is part of my problem.

Bah.

Exam ending.