Interviewing students. Going through surveys. Yay! This means I'm actually doing work toward my dissertation on a (semi)consistent basis, despite my lack of posting. In addition to working on the embodiment collection article revision (I revised hard for a couple of days and now I'm waiting for more feedback from the editors. . .that sounds... Continue Reading →
Need to do this week (as in by Sunday 12/15)
Miraculously finish the place of place chapter by tomorrow at 5pm. Or: Get through the topoi section by tomorrow at 5pm. Meet Kate at 3 Trees tomorrow at 5pm, with chapter, prospectus, and interview questions in tow. Begin emailing 225-ers to set up interviews: shoot for 5 interviews now. Read and comment on Kate S.'s manuscript. Figure... Continue Reading →
33 pages
Really, 33 1/8 pages written, all for chapter 2 the "place of place in invention studies" chapter, which could potentially be a monster-long one. I'm starting to think that the section about Bizzell and LeFevre (Inventing a Place for Myself) might end up being introduction material. Nothing wrong with that, right? Of course, I still... Continue Reading →
what have I done today, exactly?
yoga from 8-9. might have been my most productive hour all day. made a stab at cleaning out my myMiami inbox. . .though there's still 5 pages worth of messages to get through. perused Google reader. rinse. repeat. checked other emails. . . see #3. read maybe 3 pages of E.W. Harrington's Rhetoric and the Scientific Method of... Continue Reading →
So. . .
it's been awhile. I am a bad graduate student. Or maybe I'm typical. Either way, NO PROGRESS. D'oh. What have I been doing? Teaching last semester: ENG 225 was great, ENG 111 I'm not sure of. Hopefully, my thoughts and feelings about 225 will be reflected in the surveys that were distributed and some of... Continue Reading →
Today
Maybe it's pretentious to quote, but this statement from Susan Mitchell's "Notes Toward a History of Scaffolding" (as read in D'Agata's The Next American Essay) struck me this morning: "Do I live in order to write? Or do I write in order to live my life as I do?" (249) The question of a grad... Continue Reading →
Avoidance issues. . .
I have them. Right now, I avoid writing my dissertation by reading all sorts of "valuable" sources that will, I hope, be useful to the writing process. Really, I could be writing more if I wasn't so caught up in perfection. . .I hope I'm not a person satisfied with simply getting to the dissertation... Continue Reading →
Selecting Facts and Avoiding Wedding Meltdowns
I have not gotten as much dissertation work done today as I would have liked, due to the fact that I am worried about my wedding: my mother, who I love dearly and for whom I am grateful during the wedding planning process, has been looking for reception sites. She found one she loved--The Brown... Continue Reading →
The most important things I’ve learned today
I lack the ability to skim a text. I blame the inherent Catholic guilt; I am just sure that the author will come find me or haunt me if I misread or misunderstand his or her work. I also lack the ability to stop reading a text, even if it does not seem immediately useful... Continue Reading →
Things I Like
Online databases: yay, jstor. Annotated bibliographic essays. . .on invention resources. Feeling as though I did accomplish something today. A sleepy mini-dachshund/hot water bottle lounging on my lap as I type. Having a wedding date set. Lunch with friends. Jooboo's Gems. Gossip Girl. Not missing the deadline for my first-ever publication. Re-organizing my closets/rooms/online files... Continue Reading →
essaying the plains 