Monday, June 11, 2007

10 Days 2 abd, minus c(old mucus)

I'll have a dissertation blog. And I'll have a work plan. And I'll finish my dissertation by July 4th next year. And I'll eat a lot of Blue Water Fish Sticks, which are trans fat free and cook up with a pleasing ding in my non-greasy new red toaster oven.

(During my MA I often expounded on the toaster oven utopia and the abundance of English Muffin Melts that would coexist with such a society.)

Somedays, like today, the first day of the dissertation blog I will keep until I finish on July 4, 2008, the 26 count value pack of Blue Water Fish Sticks is about 53 cents cheaper than the regular 14 count pack. Or is it pac? I'll need ketchup.

And since, technically, I'll have been a PhD student for four years in August, my trans-fat free discipline to finish by July (five years minus some funding), I won't have to "catch-up" to anyone who finished faster (everyone I know that didn't go to my school).

I won't say anything about where I go to school. I intend this blog to be very private. I do go to a private school. It's fancier than I thought it was, so I don't go there very often. I'm in absentia, actually, a very affirming status to hold, really. I'm in the Department of English. I have a great, though eclectic, committee. Their work informs my own more than I might expect, I figure that's lucky, because I couldn't really have chosen anyone else to work with at my small fancy private school. In fact, my supervisor will be on sabbatical in Europe all year, and my second is a brand new hire. She's smart but almost younger than me. That always confuses me. So, its just a happy committee, that's probably pleased that I can't bother them too much and relieved that I have a cool topic.

I can't wait to start working full time on it. Go away field exams. Go.

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