Well, it's now officially been a week. Somehow I managed to get onto a symposium planning committee, already! I'm giving a paper at a conference next month and I'm putting forward a proposal for another conference in March (which I feel pretty confident about). Those are pretty much the only tangible things I have right now, because I did not do my BA or MA in this field and so I'm catching up massively on foundational texts which I've never read and are vital to the course. It does seem like I've got a lot going on already, but truthfully, I feel pretty lost and like I'm swimming in books. I think if I didn't have this conference paper to write, I'd be really daunted, because it's actually letting me read some of these base texts and focus that knowledge into words.
I'm also adjusting to being a tiny university in a tiny city, which is very new! I kind of like it, but it means that the library is limited (thank god my SO goes to Cambridge and can take out books for me from the University Library there) and it's hard for me to get some of the resources I need (like language classes - no introductory French or German here, eek). But I love the friendly community of the university and how easy it is to get around. All in all, I'm pretty happy. Maybe I'll check in after my second supervision, though, just in case that all changes after he tears apart my conference proposal!
