voncookie | December 12, 2009
11:15 a.m. My grandmother things I’m done with my dissertation. She thinks I’m Dr. vonCookie. I didn’t have the heart to explain to her about the difference between “graduation” and “filing.” I got the feeling she was disappointed in me. Why? Because when I walked in the door, she called me “doctor”; I didn’t have [...]
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Tags: dissertation, liveblogging, Lorca, writing
voncookie | October 15, 2009
5:50 p.m. I would like to say at this point in the day that I have a good start on Ch5. Alas, I do not. Reason being: DRAMA. Boy drama. *So* not okay with me. I wish I could go into the whole sordid story, but suffice it to say that my summer is coming [...]
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voncookie | May 16, 2008
12:34 a.m. (5/17/08) I’ve realized that what was going to be my concluding section to this chapter is really the opening section to my next chapter, and rather than repeat myself unnecessarily, I’m going to go to bed. Final tally for Ch3, as it stands: Words: 24,002 Pages: 65 Footnotes: 100 Sources: 68 I’d say [...]
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voncookie | May 6, 2008
18:00 I got hijacked by a run to Oh-So-NoCal Café with KnitKitteh, and so no chapter writing got done, but there was a copious amount of intellectual conversation at Oh-So-NoCal Café that made up for it. Of course, the Rabid Intellectualism was then followed by a conversation about which character on “Friends” was most pitiable—KnitKitteh [...]
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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 [...]
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