Doubts.

Today was just one of those days when I have severe doubts about whether I am really doing something I want to do.

Of course, this leads to a 15-minute Google search session, and a perusal of all the "wonderful' websites that hope to deter you from pursuing such a path. Very encouraging material, indeed. 

On the other hand, I think I will do some reading, (or rather, I will do some more reading) on:

Peters, Robert L. Getting What You Came For: A Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D. New York: Noonday, 1997. 

I could use some advice, but my sub-par human communication skills are a major deterrent to actually asking a real person. 

P.S. We, English majors, are quite pretentious with our vocabulary. Every writer has their favorite "smart" words, Nancy Partner's word of the article: "polemical". My post-colonial professor's: "nuanced." Mine: I think I'll try "liminal," it should work well with my Derridian tendencies.