I didn't get into the PhD program for Mac this fall. Which... I haven't really had time to process it, been so busy moving. I was going back and forth between the apartments and yesterday I finished: cleaned it up and everything ( Read more... )

How do you prevent yourself from seeing "unpack, restructure, refine" as "THIS IS TERRIBLE REWRITE EVERYTHING"?

Got comments back on my proposal. Two from the CSCT committee, and one from my hopefully-supervisor to be.

( Click through to see proposal and comments if you're interested )

So, my 1000-word proposal draft was done on Sunday evening and I just put together my working bibliography. I expect that it will get culled when I'm assigned a supervisor. But it IS a working bibliography! It's also missing some secondary sources right now because I actually have some books on decolonization that I haven't looked through yet. I ( Read more... )

My brother sent me and my dad Amy Chua's racist screed on how her abusive parenting skills are better and inherently Chinese, because he'd "never thought about it that way before" and I had to remind them both that it's racist, Orientalist, and abusive on several levels, plus it's a fucked up, terrible interpretation of Chinese ancestor worship. My ( Read more... )

So, I discovered that apparently some people really, really hate cover pages on papers, particularly essays. Because it's a waste of paper and useless, and so they hate it. And I'm like, but I love cover pages! I don't really see it as a big deal whether or not I get them with the essays I mark (I like 'em because they give me a ton of empty space ( Read more... )

I've been considering what to do for my MA project. I asked my supervisor-to-be and the head of the English department if it's okay for me to incorporate creative writing into my project, and they like the idea. I'm gonna copy-paste what I wrote sometime last month about this on Silver Goggles:

Step 1: Identify postcolonial approaches on / readings ( Read more... )

there will be
a pop quiz on
this Thursday.

Presenters
are advised to
keep it short

and textbooks
are highly [re-]
commended.

- 7.30am wakeup, walked with Cynthia to the uni ( Read more... )

So today I woke up? And realized I had nothing to do, really, besides write for NaNo. I'd already accomplished about 2k last night and I thought, I could go a couple more K today. Did I mention I'd also written two response papers last night before embarking on the novel writing ( Read more... )