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To-do list for my paper tomorrow:
1) Revise second paragraph of my new introduction, which is currently a mess, to a streamlined statement of my two-part historical and historiographical thesis.
2) Revise first paragraph to replace hideous jargon where I talk about texts taking an "active, discursive or constitutive role." I'm pretty sure I can say the same thing without the jargon, now that I've used it to think with.
3) Write summary of Michael Chamberlain's argument as relevant to my thesis.
4) Write a page of my bonus! comparative paper. I'm writing it in my head as I go, so I might as well write it for real too: religion, authority, and relationships in western Europe and the central Islamic Lands in the central middle ages.
Accomplished today:
1) Got the third in my series of HPV vaccines. Proceeded to immediately pick up my heavy backpack with that arm. Bad plan; arm was instantly very sore.
2) Reconceived introduction to paper to focus on origins of genre of biographical dictionaries; realized that most historians who have written about them haven't thought about the role of texts in shaping, as opposed to recording, societies. Wrote new introduction.
3) Read past semester's teaching evaluations. Had a student express the sentiment that she (I suspect she) would not take another class with me "Unless it was between that and having both my legs cut off maybe." I especially love that she isn't sure. She might want her legs cut off. She also thinks I would be a better teacher if I learned some history. I'm pretty sure I know who she is.
4) Spawned plan for bonus! comparative paper.
5) Napped. Drank wine. Slacked off generally.
6) Basked in recently-arising cool breeze after a very, very hot day. Hoped for thunderstorm. Washed feet in cold water.
1) Revise second paragraph of my new introduction, which is currently a mess, to a streamlined statement of my two-part historical and historiographical thesis.
2) Revise first paragraph to replace hideous jargon where I talk about texts taking an "active, discursive or constitutive role." I'm pretty sure I can say the same thing without the jargon, now that I've used it to think with.
3) Write summary of Michael Chamberlain's argument as relevant to my thesis.
4) Write a page of my bonus! comparative paper. I'm writing it in my head as I go, so I might as well write it for real too: religion, authority, and relationships in western Europe and the central Islamic Lands in the central middle ages.
Accomplished today:
1) Got the third in my series of HPV vaccines. Proceeded to immediately pick up my heavy backpack with that arm. Bad plan; arm was instantly very sore.
2) Reconceived introduction to paper to focus on origins of genre of biographical dictionaries; realized that most historians who have written about them haven't thought about the role of texts in shaping, as opposed to recording, societies. Wrote new introduction.
3) Read past semester's teaching evaluations. Had a student express the sentiment that she (I suspect she) would not take another class with me "Unless it was between that and having both my legs cut off maybe." I especially love that she isn't sure. She might want her legs cut off. She also thinks I would be a better teacher if I learned some history. I'm pretty sure I know who she is.
4) Spawned plan for bonus! comparative paper.
5) Napped. Drank wine. Slacked off generally.
6) Basked in recently-arising cool breeze after a very, very hot day. Hoped for thunderstorm. Washed feet in cold water.