Welp, in the spirit of Sherlock and Henry V, once more unto the breach dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead, &c. &c. The semester starts tomorrow, probably my last semester in academia, and I'm not ready, either in existential or practical terms. I've put together my canvas site and syllabus, and I have a plan and ( Read more... )

I've survived October, and now it's November. There's always more work! To do this month:

Teaching

( Lectures )

I survived July and survived August and somehow survived my dissertation and seem to have survived my move. Now it's September, and I don't know what to do with myself. Except that in fact, I still have my work cut out for me.

Teaching

( Lectures )

It's August 2015, and in the immortal words of J.R.R. Tolkien, who knew how these things were: "Stand, Men of the West! Stand and wait! This is the hour of doom."

Dissertation goals:

• Reread draft
• Discuss draft and necessary revisions with advisor R
• Write conclusion
• Implement revisions on introduction
• Implement revisions on Dol-Combourg ( Read more... )

Here's the to-do list post I set out to write in my previous post. Short version: BEARS. DISSERTATION BEARS. Or, in the apt words of Tolkien, "A great doom awaits you, either to rise above the height of all your fathers [NB: I won't have the first PhD in my family, but I will be the first woman with a PhD in my family] since the days of Elendil, or ( Read more... )

It's June and I'm flirting with disaster. Here's what I have to do this month to prevent the sky from falling:

Dissertation writing goals:

MAKE A REAL TO DO LIST ELSEWHERE THERE IS TOO MUCH FOR THIS ENTRY
FINISH PRIORIES CHAPTERFINISH PRIORIES CHAPTER APPENDIX [IN PROGRESS ( Read more... )

I started today off reasonably well - I had trouble dragging myself out of bed, but I did, only an hour later than planned. Then I dragged myself to campus and got work done until noon. Since then, I haven't accomplished much at all except sitting around limply and dragging myself home and continuing to fail to do anything ( Read more... )

It's May and it's finally spring! I walk past the field where my current institution piled all the snow it removed from campus this winter on my way to campus, and all that's left of the former three-metre mountain of snow are a few tiny hummocks on the shady side of the field, plus a thick-looking sludge of salt and gravel and chunks of curb that ( Read more... )

It's now April, and I've spent the day making my way up to Quebec for the first half of my Easter break (my current institution may not have any actual faculty governance, as it turns out, but by god the Jesuits give us a five-day Easter weekend). Now I'm sitting in the kitchen chez Cormac and Liz, drinking quality Canadian tisane out of Cormac's ( Read more... )

February was both far too long and far too short, and now it's March. I got some stuff done in February, but not enough! Hopefully March involves less shovelling historic amounts of snow, and more writing, because as always, I have a lot of writing to do:

Dissertation writing goals:FINISH draft of priories chapter ( Read more... )