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... makes laughter bubble up in Jim’s mouth, but he swallows it, waits, tries to look nervy, expectant. Young. He hasn’t felt young in three years, but Pike clearly doesn’t know that. “I did my dissertation on the U.S.S. Kelvin ,” Pike says. Jim swallows something that is very much not laughter. “And we were friends,” Pike continues, quietly. “I see. You were friends. And then, after he‘d died… ...

It's looking as if my defence will be...on September 11th. Does this bode well for me? I'm not sure. In other news, Xtra has an article about a trans march happening this year on pride Friday night.  I wrote to the organizers to say what a great idea I think it is and to extend my congratulations to them both.  I recommend that those who feel so moved do the same.  Organizing stuff is a tiring...

'Ummentionable evils'

And this from the 1882 minutes of the Woman's National Christian Temperance Union: "Attention was called to the unmentionable evils resulting from the liquor traffic, with a motion that a committee be appointed to write on the subject." The evil was so unmentionable it appears the women of the WCTU were uncomfortable putting it in writing because, uhm, it was "unmentionable." Thankfully the ...

A past, personal rant on the Northern media's anti-Southern bias

... is). I caught this EW review of Women's Murder Club last night. It's incredibly flattering to both the show and Harmon, yet it still pissed me off. I'm putting both the review and my dissertation behind a cut, for it's so flipping long. Review: Women's Murder Club (2007) By Gillian Flynn I confess! I thoroughly enjoy Women's Murder Club. Neither self-serious nor campy, the new ABC ...

writing samples

... of Latin American magical realist authors. I think the writing is a bit better in this one and the topic pretty obscure (although I did communicate with a professor at another university who had done his dissertation on roughly the same thing), but I feel like this one won't demonstrate my possible contributions to a Rhet & Comp program as well. Still, it would require a lot less editing to be ...

Fingers Crossed, Everyone!

.... Me, a piano, a few pieces of staff paper, a CD player, and two minutes and forty-nine seconds of a man playing the Ahavo Rabbo mode on the violin. Since this was a written practicum, it has to be graded, so I don't know the results yet. If I pass it, then that's all my practica done, and only the Special Fields exam and the dissertation proposal needed to advance to candidacy. Fingers crossed!

Finally

I'm taking a vacation. True, I've technically been on vacation already for a month, but it really hasn't felt like it since I've been working every day trying to finish my dissertation. Last night I worked until midnight (hot Saturday night, I know) proofreading the draft and finishing my works cited, just so I could get it over with. So now that I'm "done" and waiting for comments (and ...

... vibrating. We've had an interesting mix of music- currently it's an out of tune 'I must destroy what I love' repeated ad nauseam. Ah well. I am being very uncool and working on my dissertation- I found the chant I'm working on in one of my favourite manuscripts, in facsimile form on my desk, which is proving quite an interesting comparison with 'my' manuscript. Yes, I have favourite manuscripts. ...

"You Asked!" #8: Celebrating Sales

... afternoon. I could not stop smiling! Then the family all went out to dinner to celebrate. J. T. Dutton : We were on vacation on Lake Superior. My husband was in the final stages of his dissertation and had received information about a few job prospects around the same time. In order to cope with the anxiety of our rapidly changing lives, we went off-line for a few days, just to breathe, hike, ...

Update

... with family stuff, so it will be nice for us to have some time alone.  Overall, Its hard to believe that I am entering my fourth year of graduate school,  but I am happy to be able to say that the end is finally in sight! Now just to take prelims, do my community placement, apply and get an internship, do my dissertation, get married and move!  :-D Its going to be crazy but fun! Bring it on...