Monday, January 3rd, 2011
2011 begins much better, in many ways, than did 2010. At this time last year, I was involved in helping to put on some events that scared me and my companions witless. My vacation time had been spent working on a paper so I could finish an incomplete. I had ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Over the July 4 weekend, I faced the fact that I was not enjoying the PhD experience. I discovered the limits of my capacity for the amount and velocity of work that poured into my life. I survived and that was as much of an accomplishment as I can claim.
Based ...
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
I unpack my stuff in the SILS liberry [1] and start researching.
The Maternalistical Cassidy wheels in with Anastasia and asks if I have lunch plans.
I pack up my stuff and we go to lunch (very pleasant).
I unpack my stuff in the SILS liberry and start researching.
People people people walk by ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Penelope Trunk trots out one of her regularly visited themes: why grad school is a bad idea. It rankled me a bit but I do have to remember that she's talking to twenty-somethings and I'm a forty-odder.
Her advice would be right-on to my 23-year-old self: I had very little direction, ...
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Inspired by Rani’s post about her upcoming work (hope that’s going well for you, Rani), it’s probably a good idea for me to look at the months ahead.
The spring semester starts tomorrow. I’m spending today cleaning up my office, recycling pages and pages of article printouts, putting away the CDs ...
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