February 2012
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Welp.
Back in preschool, it seems.
I do so love being patted on the head and getting a ‘tick’ for the three good (half) paragraphs in a 12,000 word thesis, let me tell you.
Apart from that, welp, let’s overhaul my entire structure and argument, delete most of the medical detail, un-colloquialise my language, lower my word count. Make me write in a scholarly fashion, shorten my...
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Meeting in 40 minutes
Sodding Catch #22. I don’t know if my ‘official’ supervisor will approve the images in my thesis, so I can’t send the draft off as is to see if I can get permissions (reasonable request of the curator) so I’m stressed. I really don’t know if I can improve it much if she thinks it’s a total shambles (which would be fair) and I don’t have time to get...
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As a thought
There is always the worry that what you read is not the truth. Of course. And then you get into discourses of truth and what it is and does it even matter. Of course.
The thing that I think some people crave, or maybe it’s just me, is a motion from elsewhere; an obstacle placed in the way that says whatever you are doing, you get a reaction. Not that yes or no, this is true, but you have...
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First draft...
…was handed in last night 45 minutes before midnight and when it would be officially not the 17th anymore.
I have a caffeine hangover from all the maté I’ve been chugging. It’s very high caffeine tea and much more drinkable than my usual strong syrupy burning coffee. Which I would rather enjoy when I have the time, in my favourite place (which, if you’re wondering, is the...
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Stress. Stress. Stress.
So it’s been a really lovely weekend, because it’s been a total break from reality. Got to spend the majority of it with my boyfriend, who I rarely get to see for more than a consecutive day. I’m happy about that but really bummed that I’m back at college tomorrow.
I have a deadline this Friday for the first draft of my research paper and I have about 3/4 of my word count....
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January 2012
68 posts
“They made themselves targets for men’s darts, they were permitted territory for...”
– So much innuendo.
Seriously, ‘Imad ad-Din. We get it. This is just getting embarrassing.
From ‘Imad ad-Din’s account of the Third Crusade in Francesco Gabrielli (ed. and trans.), Arab Historians of the Crusades, (trans. from Italian E. J. Costello) (London, 1969).
(via thesefewpresidents)
I...
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Micro Carving beauties
iloveimages:
Mhairi McFarlane's Ultimate Celebrity Interview.
dannsindwirhelden:
The ultimate celebrity interview!
I am so sick of reading this interview. You read it all the time, constantly, year in, year out, in every glossy magazine and Sunday supplement. It’s founded on the twin principles that A) people who act are the most fascinating beings on the planet, and B) that we, the readers are totally credulous, awed plebians. The dumbstruck...
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New Yorker: The Caging of... →
think4yourself:
New Yorker: The Caging of America
truth-has-a-liberal-bias:
progressivefriends:
America imprisons more people than Stalin did with the Gulag.
…..
For most privileged, professional people, the experience of confinement is a mere brush, encountered after a…
This is really worrying.
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Starbucks scammed me
thesefewpresidents:
shazvancorset:
Obvious scam partly because I FUCKING HATE STARBUCKS COFFEE.
Also yeah, Eileen, totally right, they wouldn’t give shit to anyone for free.
Changed all my passwords, hopefully it won’t happen again.
Fucking scammers.
GET TO KNOW ME, MAKE IT CONVINCING.
This is the link. http://is.gd/LHozFr
To be fair, I doubt it was Starbucks, I’d imagine they were just...
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Starbucks scammed me
Obvious scam partly because I FUCKING HATE STARBUCKS COFFEE.
Also yeah, Eileen, totally right, they wouldn’t give shit to anyone for free.
Changed all my passwords, hopefully it won’t happen again.
Fucking scammers.
GET TO KNOW ME, MAKE IT CONVINCING.
This is the link. http://is.gd/LHozFr
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Research Traps
There are so many.
From thinking a source is going to be much richer than you originally predicted (and less mawkish, emotive and damn well probably should have been something the subject wouldn’t have cringed to read) to completely losing the run of myself and wondering do I really have a completely solid argument to back up my argument?
There is a reasonable chance that few would know to...
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Punk Rock Museum →
The one that marks...
I forgot how much I’ll read if I have a subject to cover.
Unfortunately I got an ass-kicking from my supervisor for same. So I’ve been working all day trying to work out what I’m doing and where I’m going with my research. It’s not especially easy because there’s a lot I’m trying to tie in together. Plus, I only have 12,000 words in which to lay it out...
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3 Supervisors...?
I’m really excited about this. And sleepy, because I was up till 1ish last night because of motherfucking SHERLOCK. Not massively late but a bitch when you’re up at 6 every day.
Seriously though. Motherfucking SHERLOCK.
Where was I? Right. 3 supervisors. So I’ve got my appointed one here who I’m meeting tomorrow but I’ve already been in some extremely useful contact...
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Top 5 Deathbed regrets →
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“Eight percent of college men have either attempted or successfully raped. Thirty...”
– Margo Maine, Ph.D. (Body Wars)
There was a time that, as a person of the male persuasion, seeing this quote made me really mad. It made me mad that women would assume that I was a rapist; it made me mad that rape was becoming ‘my problem’; it made me mad because, frankly, I didn’t think it was...
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Medical language is something of a wonder, sometimes. So cold and sometimes so embarrassed. Embarrassment is one word that seems to come up. This is a memo from 1940 regarding burns treatment in the British Ministry of Health;
“Burns of the hands which, in the RAF are a common injury and which have been so treated [with tannics] subsequently develop ischaemic necrosis of the fingers. this...
“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing — an actor, a writer — I am a...”
– Stephen Fry (via rachelshead)
Things to think about, I guess. Then again, sometimes people need that prison, it makes them feel safer. Some are happier in cages, it seems. You grow to know and love the bars of it. Or maybe not.
“It is very hard for people to understand that equality does not mean that we are...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Talking with Sartre (p. 12)
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Watchniamhsnothere:
katespartyband:
FUN FACTS ABOUT THIS VIDEO: Stephen looks good in women’s clothes. This wasn’t planned and was the most fun we’ve ever had. It was recorded in Badlands which is the best practice space ever.
So, If you could check this out and maybe reblog it, that’d be really awesome..
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What the fucking fuck... →
I kind of want to have some kind of movie night, I’ve seen the Alice in Wonderland musical porn from the 70s (it was damn good actually apart from the incest Tweedle Dum/Tweedle Dee thing) and me and my friends seem to make an event of really, really awful movies.
I need to watch the Room again soon.
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