I finally passed all of my exams.  Now I am writing a dissertation, which means I am overhauling my office files and organizing calendars and not really writing yet...

Indy 500 words: The Great Race and time eraser
NWA cancelled part of my flight, both ways. It's not that I got in twelve hours late, it's that I got in at midnight with a three hour drive to make. It's that the lateness involved a four hour layover in overstimulating O'hare ( Read more... )

Just finished my field exams for my historical list ( Read more... )

There's this thing called the Nora Project that I just read about.  New literary research methods being developed because the 90s are over and they're getting tired of "basic research", but they realized that literary critics don't know what they're looking for, and that they don't even realize when they're saying something unique...

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I am back to doing online quizzes, and I thought I'd share this question.  It's helping me to decide which Family Guy character I am.

It's Sunday, you...

Stroll garage sales looking for sinister looking devices.     Take the free time to do some laundry and go to the local supermarket.     Watch TV with a beer resting on your ( Read more... )

I've read Rasselas and it's still lovely.  It certainly didn't take two hours.  It's much shorter than I remember it being ( Read more... )

I found this while trolling the internet for exam questions.  Tomato Nation:

"Please, promise me they won't put Dryden on this thing."
"They wo -"
"PROMISE ME!"
"They WON'T, God! Who's Dryden?"
"I don't know, that's the problem."
"Is he the 'Modest Proposal' guy?"
"No, that's Swift. Oh my God - I knew something. I knew something from the ( Read more... )

Kelly told me I would feel like this, but I didn't know it would make me feel bored.  I know this stuff.  And I know the stuff I don't know.  I'm good to go.  I've got about three weeks to kill and I'm bored.  It doesn't hold my attention anymore.  There isn't much left to absorb, or there isn't much space left to absorb into, of there isn't much ( Read more... )

if you heard the same advice as me about the fourth outside examiner for your committee, it must be wrong.  No one was appointed to me.  No one mentioned it.  No one offered to arrange to find someone for me.  A couple of obvious recommendations were made, and "Cagey" finally sent an email for me and I got a commitment from an art history prof., ( Read more... )

The thing to do now, I suppose ( Read more... )