I'm trying to describe my interest in history as an area of serious academic study and ( Read more... )

So, I checked out Tintin because I thought I should, in the interests of being a culturally literate comic books fan, take a look ( Read more... )

Woosh. All tests taken, everything's in, and Dr. F. emailed me already with her notes on the research project that ate Cold Spring Harbor and the news that a) she gave me an A, and b) she wants me to submit the paper to the departmental prize committee. Yay! (This also implies that she read mine pretty early, as I only turned it in Saturday, which ( Read more... )

I just turned in a ten thousand word orginal research paper with seventy one footnotes and fifty four items in its bibliography! I've been working on it for nine months, it's on a topic there is very little historiography for specifically, so I juggled some five intersecting historiographies to write it, and I'm actually quite pleased with the ( Read more... )

...Yes, I suppose it does look like a sudden jump in ability when we finally get to the projects I can work on without bouts of suicidal ideation.

Actually, of course, it's just that it's much easier to write well and revise well when you don't have intrusive thoughts about self harm every time you look at what you've written.

*sigh*

This ( Read more... )

I love editing, I just hate turning things in.

I love editing, I just hate turning things in.

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Words that probably should not pass unexamined in an analysis of sexist advertising and art include:

tramp
trampy
slutty
prostitute
whore
innocence
vulgar
vulgarity
classy
trashy

This editing class is depressing.

I owe EVERYONE comments!
But the research project that ate Cold Spring Harbor is calmly masticating its way along, so that's good.

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Okay, while the nightmares are, admittedly, entertaining glimpses into both how highly creative my psyche is, and some of them really would make great novels, and they're vivid and well-constructed and all that -

...Can I stop having them every night?

(I'm getting good work done, though! Lots of work! Aaaaand the sun is setting so I've got to ( Read more... )