After sleeping twelve straight hours, I woke up less refreshed than you might think. I suspect I am trying to get sick, but my white blood cells must be putting up a hell of a fight ( Read more... )

So... HARRY POTTER!

It's already the fourth week into the term, which is both good and bad. Good because only six more weeks until summer, baby! and bad because, well, it's already four weeks into the termFirst phonetics and acoustics midterm today went well, I believe. I've been practicing my sign language whenever possible. The first ( Read more... )

Using the Encyclopdie: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Reading is available again! Huzzah! ::does happy dance:: I will now have all my beloved articles surrounding me once more! Which is good because I have...oh good lord, one week until I need to have that thesis statement more or less decided upon ( Read more... )

I was just in the library returning what has been my bible in regards to seeking out discourse communities surrounding the Encyclopedie. (Apparently one can only renew a book three times. I'll be back to reclaim it once they reshelve it, though. My love! we shall not be long parted!) While doing the depressing deed, I was also picking up the ( Read more... )

::worries::

::worriesworriesworries::

I think I'm missing people from my discourse community.

Still unable to find information on Georges Benrekassa as well as the article that he apparently wrote about the Encyclopedie. All I know is that he is apparently also interested in Montesquieu. Then there's that whole thing where a few articles are ( Read more... )

ad;kjf;aldkfjld!

WHO ARE YOU GEORGES BENREKASSA???

Besides, I mean, being the only scholar in the world who does not have information about themselves on the Internet, thus causing me serious angst.

Help me. I cannot find my way out of my discourse community.

So, I'm reading this article about language and grammar in the Encyclopedie, which reads kind of like fanfiction for another scholar's article about language and grammer in the Encyclopedie; the former clearly a fanboy of the latter.

Uh...did I just say that about a Cornell University professor?

So I've finally reached the part where I go insane.It is eating my brain. Tracing those blasted scholars is almost all I think about. I think about it in the shower; I think about it when I brush my teeth; I think about it as I walk between classes. Their articles become one big blob of similar arguments...and the opposition to those arguments ( Read more... )

Dear books of a scholarly nature (especially those published in the last decade and a half):

I would be much obliged if you would, in fact, place all footnotes at the bottom of the page on which they are enumerated, instead of, say, the very back of the book ( Read more... )

It's been a very looooong week. Loooooong. Long suffering, even ( Read more... )