voncookie | April 29, 2009
11:00 p.m. Fifteen minutes ago I finished the first draft of the Alberti section. It is–at least temporarily–done. I will go back later and edit. In the words of the great poet Madonna, “Celebrate. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.” 9:45 p.m. Quick shout out to HS bud La Leur whose one word mantra “COMMIT!!!” has revolutionized [...]
voncookie | April 29, 2009
7:30 p.m. I now have a bit of a problem… I’ve got momentum on Alberti (finally!) and yet I know I have to set it aside and prepare my flyback materials, which are near completion but are not yet complete. Argh! I hate having my attentions so divided. And my wrist is hurting… great… Anyway, [...]
voncookie | April 29, 2009
Here’s something I picked off YouTube that makes me unreasonably happy today: Kermit’s Bayou Alphabet from 1987. I used to get this stuck in my head when I was in 9th or 10th grade–thought it was very catchy. Although now I’m wondering what exactly I was doing watching Sesame Street in High School. Huh. Anyway, [...]
voncookie | April 28, 2009
8:10 p.m. Going to bed. Yep. You heard right. It’s not even completely dark out (thank you, DST!) and I’m going to B-E-D. Chronic sleep deprivation had me just *thiiiiiis* shy of Bat-Shit Insane, and so I’ll NOT be doing that anymore, if it can be helped. One more night of human sleep should kill [...]
voncookie | April 27, 2009
7:35 p.m. Calling SELLAC totally changed this week’s game plan and resulted in me writing a semi-panicked email to the Overlords saying that, essentially, I cannot *both* finish the Diss and prepare for my flyback and have them both be quality productions within the same week. This is because SELLAC is asking me to prepare [...]
voncookie | April 25, 2009
10:10 p.m just kidding, everyone. I’m still around. What would this blog be if it didn’t have a blow-by-blow of my final days of dissertation writing? It would be like never finding out who shot J.R… 7:05 p.m. back in a few days, kids. gotta put the pedal to the metal. that means cutting off [...]
voncookie | April 24, 2009
11:45 p.m. Oh, this is a slog. A real honest-to-goodness slog. Amazing, though, how long the Cup o’ Mediocrity stays warm, and yet never burns my mouth upon first swig. Ah, the mysterious power of 7-11 coffee. Long live the Sev! 10:10 p.m. OK. Cup o’ Mediocrity by my side, about 11 or so books [...]
voncookie | April 24, 2009
10:35 p.m. Back to taking notes. When in doubt, take notes. It’s hideously boring, but it gets the feel of academic language under my fingertips, and when I do start to write, should grease the squeaky wheels sufficiently. But, my God, it is so dull. That’s okay. Sometimes dull is just fine with me. 9:20 [...]
voncookie | April 23, 2009
10:45 p.m. Cannot sleep, in spite of being exhausted and achy. Too many thoughts about the SELLAC flyback. So I’m going to try working. My back is killing me, so I’m thinking of moving my work to my bed for the evening, where I can have better back support. One big catch to that plan: [...]
voncookie | April 22, 2009
6:30 p.m. I finished the section. Whew, that was exhausting. Luckily, I have to write another section tonight before I go to bed, so it’s a good thing I’m not both hungry and tired and slightly mad, right? I said, RIGHT???!!! 3:35 p.m. I wrote a paragraph, a paragraph, a paragraph!!! I guess this is [...]
voncookie | April 21, 2009
7:00 p.m. I mustered *a page*. And then life happened and I got distracted, and I also needed–re-he-heally needed–a few hours of sleep. So I got that, woke up, talked to my Mom on the phone (Hi Mom!), went for a drive, and now I’m back in the room trying to make tonight uber-productive. There’s [...]
voncookie | April 20, 2009
8:00 p.m. Took a nap, had some dinner, did some research, found my angle. It’s a good one. All this last minute re-structuring makes me look like a total flake. Or an absolute perfectionist. Full steam ahead, no sleep tonight. 2:50 p.m. After an intense period of reflection, I have figured out what’s been bothering [...]
voncookie | April 19, 2009
10:45 p.m. I just had the somewhat surreal experience of watching my current work grow a long tentacle that whipped out and connected with work that I did many many years ago–from dissertation in 2009 to paper-that-I-wrote in 1999. Yes, I anthropomorphize my work. That is, if anthros had tentacles. More coffee, please. 8:50 p.m. [...]
voncookie | April 17, 2009
3:00 p.m. With my online writing group cheering me on, I’ve managed to break through my Ch5 block and blast through about 1K words in 2 hours. Yee-haw! I’m totally envious of TooBeaut who is at the Giants game right now watching Tim Lincecum kick some righteous ass, but at the same time, blowing the [...]
voncookie | April 17, 2009
7:30 p.m. I got totally ‘napped by Facebook, dammit. But I’m feeling energized and I’m going to try to turn my focus away from things like “Which Muppet Are You” and towards Quantum Physics. In case you’re wondering, though… I’m Janice. My wrist has been acting up a little today, don’t really know why. It [...]
