m’thesis proposal has just passed the halfway point in word count and isn’t due for two weeks.
I just, this time last week I was having major anxious feelings about it, and now I have dot points under all of the headings and quotes and proper citations and things.
So this is great, but now I’m off to a three hour ethics seminar. After being in a two hour work meeting this morning. So much sitting and paying attention to boring things. So much.
That time, when Tony Abbott was lost in the desert. And was found, what a waste of taxpayer $$Wait, what?
The tragedy is that he didn’t stay lost. Why not. Hundred of people manage it every year.
work gripe #500
researchers and academics are the worst. Your published accolades don’t mean dick if you can’t tell me in plain english what you’ve done, what you continue to do and how I can help you promote it to a lay audience.
I don’t care how elitist you want to be in among your own circles, wanking each other off but if you can’t explain to the person on the street what you’re doing, what is the point of you?
It gets beaten out of us at uni. MOAR FORMAL ACADEMIC LANGUAGE is the first, last, and several of the middle things that my supervisor says to me per meeting.
Me: it is just a draft! I will make it difficult to read LATER.
Being able to communicate complex ideas clearly is the mark of a good academic I think, and it can be difficult. In conversation I tend to just say that I’m writing about libraries because I worry that people will be bored shitless after three seconds of me explaining. Because I am, by other people’s theses.
Dear all, if you text me at midnight (me:asleep, you:awake) then you’ll receive a reply at five am (when I assume the reverse is true).
Three different people! I feel weird texting after ten pm!
Relatedly, R, you were in my dream, we were having dinner out somewhere & it was pretty great.
Irene Suchocki - Paris
Amy & me being very attractive ladies at Meet the Scene ball (at The Ivanhoe Centre)
Bought from the supermarket months ago and still alive yeah #cyclamen #indoorplants
—On Reading by Cynthia Cruz at The Rumpus
I could quote about 75% of the article as directly applicable, but this is what stood out the most. Thirty five.
“[jargon] is a buzzword today, but what does it mean? To me it means [jargon jargon jargon with a side of jargon]”
This is a report written by librarians. I expected better.
Does your cat help you study. Does she.
