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how to dishearten a student:
allow him to pick opposition to trans non-discrimination policies as a paper topic. Why? Because this means he has to sift through the crap from MassResistance and the traditional values coalition so he can actually cite that crap. -
paper writing update
4 am. 1583 words. 4 3/4 pages. 20 footnotes. One back spasm. One neck cramp. One 2L bottle of soda consumed.
7.5 hours and 7ish pages left.
I think I'm actually on to something, which is nice. I'm not sure I can articulate it clearly, which is not.
Boo to eunuchs, castration and procrastination.
EDIT 4:40
2068 words, 6 pages. 28 footnotes ( Read more... ) -
Dear Gregory Maguire:
I really must say, I adore you. I used your book to procrastinate and was quite tickled with what I found.
With sincerest gratitude,
Jeremie
For the rest of you:
"He'd left the unionist mauntery too young to absorb any tenets of faith that supported the cloistered way of life. From the distance of a skeptical adolescent, unionism seems like a ( Read more... ) -
I wonder if it's genetic
My dad catalogs his movies. He used to by hand, but then when we got a computer and I was ok enough with typing, he paid me $25 to type it up - 25 single space pages later and I was done. Every so often he'd throw me a couple of bucks to add in what he'd gotten during the year. That was before DVDs, of which he now has hundreds and I don't know ( Read more... ) -
x-posted: new literary journal
con•crete
1: naming a real thing or class of things
2: formed by coalition of particles into one solid mass
3 a: characterized by or belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events b: specific, particular c: real, tangible
Announcing the first open call for submissions to Concrete, a literary print journal through Sideshow Press, a ( Read more... ) -
what do you do when you're supposed to be working??
Make a To-Do list!
To finish out the semester:
- Finish commentary entries on Ephesians and Revelation. Do citations for the entires on Matthew, Titus and Galatians. Due by 6pm today. Finished 2.5 hours late.
- Read for, then write 4-5 pages on either Kierkegaard or Charles Taylor. Due Thursday.
- Read for, then write 4-5 pages on Mama Lola, Between ( Read more... )
- Finish commentary entries on Ephesians and Revelation. Do citations for the entires on Matthew, Titus and Galatians. Due by 6pm today. Finished 2.5 hours late.
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privilege and guilt
I had an interesting conversation with a classmate of mine today. We're in three of the same classes, so we have similar workloads and are working on the same papers today. We talked about our tendency to not do all the readings and to put our work off till the last minute and simpy submit what we managed to get done, without edits and without ( Read more... ) -
writing, both school and not
holy fuck, it's almost 1am and I'm still only half done with this paper ( Read more... )