voncookie | March 29, 2008
3:10 p.m. I’m writing one of my subsections to my major argument right now. I thought each subsection (there are 5) would be three pages long, and thereby give me a quick 15 pages. Alas, they are requiring much more development than I anticipated. And so, I am going to finish this subsection, provide a [...]
voncookie | March 29, 2008
OK. So, in spite of having a desk calendar, a Google calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and a mini day-planner for my wallet, I managed to make a colossal mistake. I thought my chapter was due a week later than it is. And so it’s due … today. Yeah. Time to work a miracle. Time to invoke [...]
voncookie | March 28, 2008
I’ve been neglecting my academic blogs. Sometimes I just don’t want to know what the state of things in Academia actually is. I don’t want to hear about people getting depressed about their dissertations, I don’t want to see yet another “I’m-going-on-hiatus-until-I’m-finished-chapter-X” post… followed by posts with pictures of their cats doing cute things and [...]
voncookie | March 28, 2008
So far, during this glorious Spring Break that is now drawing to a close, I have done the following: Graded a stack of exams that I was a week behind on Nearly completed a sock, frogged it, and started anew Went to Crafty Folk Empowerment night at Local Dive Bar (newly refurbished on the inside [...]
voncookie | March 26, 2008
“Your account has been blocked.” “But the message says I can renew!” “That’s more of a courtesy, and I guess the account was blocked sometime between when the email was sent and when you got online to renew.” (This was all of maybe 30 seconds.) “Is there any way I can do this over the [...]
voncookie | March 22, 2008
I’m currently in my kitchen hard-boiling some eggs. I decided that I needed to dye eggs this year, desperately, and I still have an PAAS kit that my Mom sent me a year or two ago (along with some TastyKake Hippity-Hops, a Damask’s Coconut Egg, and other miscellaneous Easter Treats), so I’m taking all my [...]
voncookie | March 22, 2008
…but of course there’s no real break, with the exception of not having to teach. Waiting in line (im)patiently are my chapter, the LitMag (with all its many levels of obligation), my taxes, this year’s Smog Check, a trip to the dentist, and many, many other things. So this morning I’m going to set up [...]
voncookie | March 17, 2008
It’s noon here on campus. The carillon is playing some indiscernible tune. The entire department—with a few exceptions—has gathered in the department library to fête the new crop of incoming grad students. I am being avoidant and reclusive because, well, that’s just what I’m doing these days. And most of the people here know me [...]
voncookie | March 15, 2008
Talking with Dad this morning over “Normal Breakfast”—there are about three or four places to have brunch around here, but they’re decidedly tainted with Northern California preciosity, so we frequent the one that serves the closest thing to a typical brunch that we can find… although Dad laments the absence of Corned Beef Hash… Good [...]
voncookie | March 12, 2008
All I want to do these days is knit. Just knit myself into a stupor, until I have carpal tunnel syndrome, until I have so many pairs of socks, so many scarves, so many afghans and throws that my apartment looks like an old folks’ home. When I’m not knitting, I want to be sleeping, [...]
voncookie | March 11, 2008
I don’t know what I was thinking going to bed a little bit early, even just a half hour early… Here it is, almost 1 a.m., I have to teach tomorrow, I have to be on my toes tomorrow, and instead I’m up in my fake-silk charmeuse pajamas from Target wondering, where did I go [...]
voncookie | March 8, 2008
Finally. Finally finally finally. I’ve gotten through all my earlier material, bringing me to 30 pages, and now, but what is left? Nothing is left but to write new material. New material about the Fascist Bastard. Damn it. Things were chugging along, as previously stated, and now I’m back to pulling very emotional teeth. Something [...]
voncookie | March 8, 2008
Why, oh why, did I actually think my free-write would be thorough enough to even resemble a chapter?! I needed the free-write exercise to get the ball rolling, but now, *now*, I might as well be starting from scratch. The Good News: I just passed the 10K word mark, hurrah! The Bad News: I still [...]
voncookie | March 7, 2008
I went to Trader Joe’s and stocked up for tonight, which is going to be very looooooooooooooooong. I got myself some Tofu Spring Rolls, some California Rolls, some guacamole, some soy chips, some cottage cheese, some soup… Now let’s hope none of those things trigger my nausea. Oh right, that’s why I bought the vat [...]
voncookie | March 7, 2008
Yesterday I began my day by getting ill in my kitchen sink. Truly wonderful way to start the day. Today, I got up and went in to teach. Slow day. Good thing I didn’t actually have to *teach* anything, as it was a day for peer editing. About half-way through the class, I started to [...]
