Oh, yeah! Been there, done that. It only gets more frustrating
when you're off that student loan/teaching assisstantship income
and have to spend a bunch of your time making a living. If I
didn't have an equally strong urge to not live in a 2-room
apartment the rest of my life, I'd be real tempted to become a
professional graduate student.
BUT, I think it's a far healthier hunger you and I have. I see
*so many* young undergrads who have no hunger for knowledge.
Knowledge is never an end for them, it's only a means. God, my
fantasy is to ahve someone pay me a decent wage to do nothing but
sit around and read books and think about things (and maybe
occasioanlly write about them, but a friend of mine once said
something to me that struck me as utterly true: "Thinking about
writing is a lot more fun than actually doing it." Not as
rewarding though.)
How does one get a job in a think tank, huh?
-- Greg Ritter gritter@vcu.edu ritter@urvax.urich.edu http://www.urich.edu/~ritter