Tuesday 18 November 2014

CorpGoth Status Report: My commute

First I was not going to participate, because I did not remember to take photos on my route and I only go to the university once a week nowadays. This also is my 99th post and I had already scheduled one and made preparations for my 100th post but now I'll just reschedule the 99th to be 101st!


To the actual report: As I explained, I only go to the university once a week and not even every week, because I am doing my master's thesis. So I live 200 kilometers away due to several reasons and that means once a week I travel two hours in the morning by train and two hours back in the evening or the next morning. My seminar meetings are usually on Thursdays and on Thursdays there are often some student parties. :3 So, I'll stay over at friend's and we go to the party together.

This travelling for two hours is actually really great, because while sitting in a train I get done enormous amounts of reading of theory books. Depending of the day, how much I make notes and how interesting the writing is, I read 50-100 pages on one trip. Two hours in the morning is my "high-performance time" which is the time I am most active, I think better and get things done.


You can probably guess my subject from the photos. My thesis is going to be about grotesque and I am really excited about it!


When I sit and read, I rarely look out of the window. One day I finished my book early and spent the last hour listening music and looking at the view. I was slightly disturbed by the fact that I did not recognize most areas the train went by. Don't know if it is a good thing or not.

Thanks for reading my rather small report of the local commute and do click the Status Report Icon to go and read other participants' posts too!

14 comments:

  1. For some reason the name of that Mills book made me laugh. :)

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    1. Me too. :) I think it is wonderful a book with that name is a collection of scientific articles!

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  2. What an interesting topic, I would be very glad to read it once it comes out! I also read a lot on the train when my boyfriend and I had a long distance relationship. Now I read in bed or while cycling in the gym!

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    1. It's a good tip to combine gym and reading! I should try that too. :D My thesis is unfortunately going to be in Finnish but I'll probably rant about it in English in this blog for time to time. ^__^*

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  3. I can appreciate working on the train. I'm afraid that I have the tendency of gazing out the window a bit too often.

    Your thesis sounds intriguing. How far along are you?

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    1. I just started it this September, so only one chapter is ready. :)

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  4. That is a really cool topic for a thesis! Good luck!

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  5. Oooo! Exciting topic!

    I have to go 1.5 hours each way by train to get to the big city too! Not counting any buses I have to get to get to other parts of the city and home and wait times between transport! It's pretty normal I guess!

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    1. Yeah, it's amazing how much people actually spend on travelling from point A to B and back every day. O_o

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  6. Your thesis sounds like a very interesting topic! I would get lost in those books as well. I have an old picture book by Stephen King and F Stop Fitzgerald called Nightmares in the Sky. I love to look through it.

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    1. Thanks, I too find grotesque very fascinating. ^^ Nightmares can be beautiful, especially if they are in a book! :D

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  7. "Grotesque" is an interesting word, not one I ever use. I wonder what is considered grotesque nowadays?!

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    1. That is exactly what I am researching. :D What today's grotesque is!

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