How to Write a Thesis in Hanoi

Anners' Quick-n-Dirty Guide to Gittin 'R' Done and Defended in Ten Easy Steps

1: Get over yourself.As fun as it is to swan around in a beret living the Life of the Mind, you will have to get over your bad intellectual self. Surrender the dream of writing the Best Thesis Ever, of producing prose that will dazzle all ( Read more... )

Get up. Drink coffee ( Read more... )

"Defend your thesis? Does that involve weapons? Come lead tours."

To China with me, to China I say.

I have been halfheartedly trying to edit my research proposal all weekend, and it is not willing to be edited.

I fear I have lost my flair...could it be that geography has made me boring?? It is off to China with me to find my flair between the Great Wall and the sea.

Spring is finally slipping into bed with the frozen, moody Vancouver winter and in my mind's eye I can see the cherry blossoms. My mind's nose can smell them on the wind, and my mind's accountant notes that this is the season for lists again--makura-zoshi style: Things I Like. Pleasant Sensations. Things I Left Behind.

The Toronto Reference Library seems to be some sort of fulcrum in my wanderings, 'cause here I am again. Wasn't I hanging out here two years ago, all grief-ravaged and lost, writing about the pirates, ninjas, and cowboys inside of me? This time I'm OK and I'm located, and trying to write a geography theory paper about urban renewal, hauntings, ( Read more... )

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Due to the monstrous typhoon of earlier this week, the water in Vancouver is now turbid and undrinkable ( Read more... )

Apartment hunting in Vancouver has got to be the most frustrating thing I've done in a long, long time ( Read more... )

Oh, well, turns out it is too much trouble to find a new blog-home, and besides, me and this one have some history. I think I'll start it up again ( Read more... )