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 →
Questions
Why did I decide that a study would be a good idea? I'm not even sure I know what I want to look for yet in this diss, but I need to get the IRB app in before the semester starts. I'm not always the most socially adept person anyway; I tend to let conversations... Continue Reading →
More
procrastination, anybody? Let's see if I can actually write something. I'm currently reading I.A. Richards' Poetries and Sciences, a little book that has taken me weeks to get through. It's not that Richards is tremendously difficult to get through (not really in this case, at least). . .this isn't exactly immediately relevant to my dissertation,... Continue Reading →
Another day
Why is it so hard to do anything related to my dissertation? This isn't writer's block; this is no desire to do anything productive. Argh. It's too easy to not do the work that needs to be done. . .now I just need to suck it up. 1. Read the other invention stuff out there.... 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 →
June
I somehow managed to waste the entire month of May. . .okay, that's not entirely fair. I finished the semester on May 9, which was followed by two weeks of mayhem at my parents' house: Millie, the Newfoundland my Mom rescued from a puppy mill, had to be euthanized after suddenly becoming paralyzed. Mom took... Continue Reading →
So much. . .
for keeping up with this blog during my exam and prospectus writing process. Egad.
Day Two
I am in the second day of my written comprehensive exam. The written exam at Miami involves me choosing one question from a list generated by my exam committee and writing a 15-25 page essay in response to that question based on my special topic reading list (which I created). I have a week to... Continue Reading →
Site of interest to me
POROI: Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry at the University of Iowa. Good stuff.
essaying the plains 