I have a monster paper due for my grad class by 4pm tomorrow... It's meant to be 20 pages long. I just started the damn thing yesterday, like the scruffy scruffy who's recovering from her attempt at a thesis that I am. Would anyone like to give the damn thing a read for me and offer some criticism, please? I'll owe you big time... HUGE!

This is too good:

I got a cool job, albeit only for the summer so far. I'll be a researcher here:

http://www.fpri.org/

very exciting... now if I could only find a cheap place to live in philly...

It's starting again: I don't have enough time to eat, let alone breathe, and the pressure's on to get the work done. As fucking miserable as I feel, I wish I'd slipped into this state maybe a week or a month ago, because then my thesis may have been done by now. At this point, though, all I can do is write like a marathon runner in the library and ( Read more... )

Writing my thesis is utter agony. I just want to go prance around outside and then party from dusk 'til dawn. No such luck.

btw, I wonder if anyone knows someone in Philly who might be looking for a roommate or a house-sitter for the summer? I got this hot internship there, but it's unpaid and I'm broke. story of my life.

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English
40% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Figures--I'm Massachusetts-bred, after all. I don't understand where the Dixie bit comes from, though--I can't even figure out what Dixie term I confessed to using on the quiz. Shopping carts ( Read more... )

I finally conquered writer's block and finished another chapter of my thesis! It only took me about four months, but I'll have something of decent substance to talk to Sam about at last.

For perhaps the second time all year, I feel like I've made good progress on my thesis. I actually produced some decent discussion of Cartwright on the limits of scientific knowledge. I have also resigned myself to the fact that she's an irredeemably bad writer and no amount of rereading on my part will make her more articulate, elegant, or ( Read more... )

I'm spending the day in the library, greedily glancing up at the windows now and then, wishing I could have some of the sunshine that's streaming in. I feel much better about everything today--I talked to some good people who let me know that it's ok to do my own thing, my way. Sometimes I sorely need to hear a new perspective like that, especially ( Read more... )

I actually wrote a bit more of my thesis today. In thesisland, that little bit goes a long way, because some progress is better than none at all. Of course, I did this meager 'bit' of work after I danced until 2 this morning, met some cool people, went home and slept for about 5 hrs, and then watched a good 3-4 hours of Queer as Folk. The party of ( Read more... )