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Incarnate
12 September 07 04:54 PM

My thesis came to me last night in a dream. My thesis incarnate, I should specify, unlike other dreams about extra chapters in thesis related books or dreaming about the chapter I was writing. Somehow my thesis had taken on human form and was trying to Read More...

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Good Habits
02 August 07 02:47 PM

In the quest to find some way to balance the job-thing and finishing-thesis-thing while maintaining some shreds of sanity (don't laugh!) I've decided that the key is good habits. There is no point in pretending that I can manage to live on sugar and caffiene Read More...

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Tour de Thesis
06 July 07 04:50 PM

Over the next few weeks, I'm planning to combine two obessions - the thesis and the Tour de France. Much to the amusement of just about everyone who knows me, I've become a Tour fan in the last few years: staying up late to watch the live broadcast on Read More...

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Day in the Life 5: Some Context
20 June 07 01:55 PM

I'm staring blankly at the screen, so I figured I might as well start on this next post, in which I plan to talk about the thesis and my writing process. While I don't want to go too much into specifics - either you the reader won't care, or if you do, Read More...

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Strangely Enough, I'm In The Zone
30 May 07 05:07 PM

'The Zone' - for me - is that semi-mythical space where sentences move from your brain through your fingers and onto the keyboard. It's where thesis work actually happens, where at the end of the day you can stop and look at the x number of words or pages Read More...

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Communities of Research
15 May 07 10:54 AM

I'm always fascinated by acknowledgement sections, in books and in theses, as a textual trace of the narratives and experiences underlying the formal, often disembodied, academic writing following that introduction. Seeing the acknowledgements section Read More...

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