I've been working very hard this week (and last weekend) on all the transcribing and translating I have to do before I can seriously start my paper for advisor R's seminar, and despite a late-ish start this morning that continued right up to mid-afternoon today. Then, however, I realized I was very tired, and I also got swamped by a tide of ( Read more... )

I think I can safely say, at the approximate end of it, that this has been among my least productive weeks ever. My lack of accomplishment for the week was totally predictable, but I'm a little more concerned about the fact that my desire to do anything hasn't yet started to resurrect itself. And I have huge amounts of work to do -- which, come ( Read more... )

So, there is much to update about. As was probably easy to deduce from my post on Wednesday and lack of post on Thursday, I suffered a bit of a midweek slump, during which I felt very stressed and anxious and generally like a waste of oxygen all multiplied by the factor of how much more appreciative I should feel about being in France ( Read more... )

To Do, August 2010

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Wow, today was a very exhausting day, considering my level of accomplishment. Part of the problem was staying up to finish a section of Land of the Cumbrians, and part of it was setting an early alarm (not that I got up right then), but most of it was the hideous intro paragraph I'm trying to write to the section where I talk about historians of ( Read more... )

I've been up for three and a half hours so far today, and I'm ready for a nap. In those three and a half hours, however, I've been pretty productive. I had a shower, and made coffee and breakfast (multigrain porridge), and did a limited number of dishes, and ah, yes, wrote a new version of the introduction to my paper ( Read more... )

To-do list for my paper tomorrow ( Read more... )

It's 12:30, and I'm eating my lunch of leftover stir-fry with spicy miso sauce (to be followed by giant chocolate-chip cookie from Hillside), after completing my day's writing-quota in time for my writing-quota deadline. And it wasn't too bad - the writing, I mean. The stuff I wrote will have to be overhauled and reconceived once I review the ( Read more... )

I'm sitting on my living room floor marking the essay segments of my 2:00 section's exams. I shall not get up until they're done.

Possibly.

Edit, 1:04 am Monday: thirteen of the eighteen are done. That leaves a manageable number for tomorrow. I'll contemplate whether I've given too many A-minuses in the morning (this is my strongest section ( Read more... )

Okay. Syllabi are taking shape, although I'm a little lost on what exciting readings to assign for the modern history course, because I've never done any exciting modern history courses before.

Therefore, I think I'll assign a chapter of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker's The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History ( Read more... )