but it isn't even paper, is it. it's thinking on pixels ( Read more... )

here i am, living in vancouver. i just filled my senses with stimulation, as much as i could, turned on the radio, tried to start up instant messaging (didn't work), i have all my email programs open, i need to pee. and having done that, i turn to writing. for the first time, really, post-dissertation. i've been doing a lot of reading about writing ( Read more... )

i'm so traumatized by the revision of my theory/discussion chapter. dave suggested i start from scratch. kind of overwhelming, but what's more overwhelming is WHAT TO SAY. i feel like i really have addressed the research questions pretty well in the analysis chapters, though maybe not the enactment question ( Read more... )

i didn't do a whole lot today, but spent a few hours on nit-picky stuff ( Read more... )

i just came home from turning in the last two chapters to lorraine and then karen. it was so nice to talk to both of them! i'm meeting karen on sunday morning to get feedback on all the chapters she hasn't yet read (methods, discussion, and now intro and conclusions). lorraine made two substantive suggestions, one for theory, one for methods, so i ( Read more... )

i think it is totally crazy that i stayed up writing acknowledgments until 4 in the morning but still work up on my own before 9am. why ( Read more... )

i feel like i haven't updated in forever ( Read more... )

i had to change the margins. i did it to all the chapters yesterday. i'm nervous that my excerpt line numbering is all messed up and the lines i refer to in the text won't match up with where the statement is in the excerpt. well, that IS something i can get my mom to check; she said she'd be willing to do that kind of thing. hmm.

i have developed a charlotte-style set of work habits here. i'm not sure i like it. i slept from 8pm to midnight. i read the new york times from midnight til one, and then started working. somehow in the middle there i also cleaned the sink and toilet, but i finished another subsection of the theory chapter and now that it is 4:15am i'm going back ( Read more... )

i did it! i finished the ontological section. phew. i think it is ok ( Read more... )