And it begins....

So I'm going to use my blog as a bit of grad student therapy, as well as a way to keep me focused and accountable. Every day, I'm going to record what I'm reading, what I'm writing, and what I needed to read or write that I didn't. Maybe it will prove useful to someone considering grad school. Maybe it will give my colleagues a place to vent. Maybe it will just keep me sane. At any rate....

Today, I read Part I of Alfred Stepan's 1971 book The Military in Politics: Changing Patterns in Brazil. Not gonna lie, I don't understand much of this Latin America stuff. Well, I should say that I don't have much of a critical context in which to view it. Further, Stepan is a political scientist and BOY is that apparent.

I need to be working on my historiographical essay on the 1959 Hutu Social Revolution, but I did not this weekend. I was really tired and sort of run down, so I took some time off. It's really hard to justify this quarter, given the ridiculous amount of work I took on, but I had to. So, I drank a lot and went to a Derby party. Oh, and I ran on the elliptical for an hour today. I should do more of that.

Up for tomorrow: more Latin America and grading papers on the French Revolution. Ooo, party.