I have officially joined the Facebook group "Grad Students: they're Not Bad People, they Just Made Terrible Life Choices."  I'm not big into Facebook groups, but this one is too tempting.  I especially identify with Reason #37 You Might be a Grad Student If:

37. [Non-grad students] ask you "Are you going to be done soon?" and you laugh but inside ( Read more... )

I know I have some BSG fans on my flist.  If you are also a scholar, take a look:

If anyone has some work they're developing on Battlestar, a colleague of a colleague at Columbia in the Film Department is editing a book on the show.  They have a publisher and everything is lined up--but they want to have a few more issues addressed in the book.  ( Read more... )

Okay, if I don't take advantage of the ability to go back to bed for another hour and a half after breakfast now, I might wake up one morning with a normal job that doesn't allow it, and boy wouldn't I be sorry, right?  Anyway, I'm going to walk the 1.5 miles to campus instead of take the bus, so that's 30 minutes of exercise right there, which ( Read more... )

Damn it!  I was so inspired by my own drive and self-discipline in making those resolutions that I accidentally started doing school work at home just now!  Curses!  This doesn't count, does it?  It was unintentional.

Mmm, I'd better go to bed before I start hating this article completely.  I was feeling good about it earlier tonight, but now I'm disliking it more with every minute  Best cut that off.  Sigh.  I'm mailing it out tomorrow at work.  That's it.  That will be all she I wrote.  My first published thing!  Shouldn't I feel my first published thing is ( Read more... )

Hey, academics - is it cheating to use (and cite) book reviews in your literature review?  Or are you supposed to read and evaluate every book yourself?

Sigh.  Okay.

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OMG!

Okay, first, sorry to have no writercon recap tonight.  My aunt and uncle were in town unexpectedly and I spent the evening with them instead, but OMG!  Guess what email I just got??

Dear Professor MyLastName [hee! "professor"!],

I’m happy to inform you that your paper for the 2006 NEPCA conference has been accepted.  The selection process was quite ( Read more... )

Do you know that classes have been over for weeks, and it still feels unnatural to come home from work and have nothing I'm supposed to be reading or grading?  Just ... weird.  I can sit around eating French fries for dinner and watching my new Toys DVD, and I'm not supposed to be feeling guilty about that.   Of course, there's at least one ( Read more... )

... ooo-kay ( Read more... )