Archive for the 'Academia' Category

In which I’m random, I guess.

Hey, look. This is me, writing something that is not my dissertation. Don’t tell. I’m pretty sure I’m not supposed to be doing this right now…I need to save up all my sentences for that super long thing. Ah crap. Baby just woke up. Why does she have to do that so much?
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Cut to three [...]

How do you punch someone over the Internet?

Between now and the last post I haven’t been able to amenable/friendly/not murderous enough to write anything that wasn’t absolutely necessary. So I just finished writing a ten page practice comp exam and now my brain is delightfully mushy enough to make me forget about my hate for about ten minutes. Hence, blogging.
I’ve decided [...]

I’m an uninformed elitist bleeding heart liberal. Questions?

I have a confession to make. I…sometimes I…watch The View. Yes, I’m watching it right now. And it’s the only television show I watch that even pretends to talk about current events. Hence, I get much of my current event information from this show. Well, and the internet. So my sources of information have questionable [...]

I’m surprised I made it this far.

Yesterday I turned in the last paper for my last real class in my program. Huh. I’m not sure how I’m supposed to feel… Of course, I still have to do a research internship, my comp exam, and my dissertation…but still. I feel…like maybe I accomplished something. Also, I feel like I’ve been in [...]

Do you know how creepy it is….

…when you’re sittin’ in your office, eating lunch and minding your own business, and you suddenly hear bagpipes? Are they staging a remake of Braveheart on campus? Do I at least get to be on the winning side? Oh wait…grad students never win. I almost forgot. Any time they get close the finish line is [...]