S. Worthen | Weblog

I loved graduate school, and I found it infinitely more sustaining than full-time tenure-track academia, which probably has to do with landing myself in exactly the wrong sort of department. I also miss some of my grad-school friends, but it's been fascinating (and rewarding) to discover who I've managed to keep in touch with.

I'm not prone to best-time-of-my-life conversations, though. For one thing, I prefer to believe that the best is yet to be; for another, it seems ridiculous to say that a given time is Best In All Ways. Right now, my work life is lousy but I think there might be light at the end of the tunnel, my friendships are good but I think I could do a better job maintaining them, my religious life is good but overscheduled (also suffering from confusion with my work life), my family life is good but I miss various departed relatives like hell, and my love life is better than it has ever been but I refuse to contemplate a downturn. So it's complicated, and I wind up sounding a bit like Candide when I try to express it. ;)