voncookie | August 30, 2007
So, yesterday was a day of a lot of firsts: my first real day walking significant distances (on campus, uphill both ways!) my first day back on campus for the new semester, which implies a lot of “What-I-Did-On-My-Summer-’Vacation’” discussions (personal favorites: slogging it out in an intensive Latin class, living in an apartment in Barcelona [...]
voncookie | August 28, 2007
When the semester starts, it really starts. Geez! I think I’m finally being asked to pay up for my four years of ambivalence about graduate school. I woke up at 4 a.m. with the fully-formed thought in my head that if I don’t get a job that pays more than $45K per annum when I [...]
voncookie | August 27, 2007
*sigh* Summer is officially over. Everyone’s back to school today. Another academic year begins, and I am taking a semester “off”. Or rather, I am taking a semester free from teaching responsibilities in which to work my *ass* off, to the best of my ability, and hopefully get at least a chapter, preferably two, into [...]
voncookie | August 25, 2007
My inner Control Freak (aka Skeletor) has been appeased by recent activity on the wiki site. Looks like it could be a success! It just needed a more enthusiastic promoter, I think. (Thanks, Orele!) Speaking of which, I really need to get a set of cojones. My inner CareBear has been in control for far [...]
voncookie | August 25, 2007
Today I spent some time working on a project on PBWiki—my first real wiki project—and I have to say, I am totally in love with the wiki format. Especially PBWiki, whose principles of formatting are easily learned, easily manipulated, and (most important) easily fixed when I screw things up. …and hopefully just as easily fixed [...]
voncookie | August 22, 2007
I finished it. Mom just played the Halleluja Chorus for me over her cell phone: the cherry on the top of a 54-page sundae. FABULOUS.
voncookie | August 22, 2007
Rounding the bend, heading for home… So close I can taste it now. Maybe 5 more pages left to write, that’s it. Just the Germans and the conclusion. Tie it all together somehow. What is it that I always tell my students? That a conclusion should provide a recap, but most importantly, it should branch [...]
voncookie | August 21, 2007
Hail, EndNote X1, bibliographical manager sent from heaven to make my work so much easier! Woe to those who use any other program, for they will never know the joys of multiple libraries, the wonder that is Cite While You Write, and the brilliant interface with Word 2007! Of course, like any computer program, you [...]
voncookie | August 21, 2007
Yesterday, alas, did not go as planned, otherwise you would be reading in the title “I finished the chapter!!!!” I went to go write, and I froze. Just froze in place, unable to write or even think critically. But today I’m under the gun. So it will be written to-day. Stay tuned.
voncookie | August 20, 2007
So, here I am, in my bed, which for the past week has functioned as my desk, due to the fact that I sprained my ankle pretty badly last Sunday and have needed to keep it almost constantly elevated. As I see it, I have about ten pages, single-spaced, left to write today. I have [...]
voncookie | August 20, 2007
Ah, blessed be the coffeehouse that I have missed so much over the last week. Blessed be my asshat Americano that I haven’t drunk for three weeks now. Blessed be the car that drove me here. Hurrah! I have a *ton* of things to do today, just a raving ton, but considering how much I [...]
voncookie | August 19, 2007
I have to be rather Prussian with myself today and write a well-organized section on the German physicists that founded the field of quantum mechanics. Luckily I just read a book about it and reviewed it. Still, I’m unsure as to whether I can cite said book because it is popular rather than scholarly. I [...]
voncookie | August 18, 2007
So, last night, after writing several pages of my dissertation, I decided to relax with a film. It was 1927 in my apartment yesterday, as I knocked off paragraphs about the British Windbag Physicists who wrote around the same time as Fritz Lang’s masterpiece was being made—Metropolis. I’d already attempted to watch the entire movie [...]
voncookie | August 17, 2007
When I was Very Ill back in high school, I missed a lot of school. Of the four years of high school, I only attended three (if you total up all my absences). I joked that I only made cameo appearances, which was actually kind of true. As you can imagine, being sick so frequently [...]
voncookie | August 16, 2007
I’m still sick. Can’t write. ‘Nuff said.
