Plants and plans
Jul. 1st, 2009 06:12 pmUrk. How is it July already?
However, I have two paper assignments down. I stole my assignment for the contextual analysis nearly wholesale from one of the PhDs who put hers up on Blackboard for that express purpose. The internet is for stealing!
Now, if I can just write the other two assignments over the next two days, all that will remain is to flesh out the reading schedule (I have not quite half of it down) and come up with a few homework assignments. I think I'm going to have to get one of those "Best American Essays" volumes and look for good material in there, because I've already added the ones from their reader that aren't utterly uninspiring.
I'm also about to start actually getting some words out on my thesis. I think that'll be next week. I told my advisor I'd have ten pages by the end of the month and twenty by the time the fall semester starts in mid-August; hopefully this was not overly optimistic.
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In addition to working like a dog, July means corn. I've never had much of an opinion on corn on the cob--I like it and all, but I don't wait for summer with baited breath because of it--but I got some ears at the farmers' market last weekend, and they were delicious. Yum. Plus, at this point in the year, you can get them for as little as ten cents an ear at some places.
(Query: Am I the only person who thinks a partially-shucked ear of corn, with the casing and silk all pulled down but not pulled off yet, looks like weird representation of a hula dancer?)
Hooray summer for feeding me well, healthily, and cheaply, and also for giving me entertainment with my food. Even if it does mean I have cornsilk all over my kitchen floor now.
However, I have two paper assignments down. I stole my assignment for the contextual analysis nearly wholesale from one of the PhDs who put hers up on Blackboard for that express purpose. The internet is for stealing!
Now, if I can just write the other two assignments over the next two days, all that will remain is to flesh out the reading schedule (I have not quite half of it down) and come up with a few homework assignments. I think I'm going to have to get one of those "Best American Essays" volumes and look for good material in there, because I've already added the ones from their reader that aren't utterly uninspiring.
I'm also about to start actually getting some words out on my thesis. I think that'll be next week. I told my advisor I'd have ten pages by the end of the month and twenty by the time the fall semester starts in mid-August; hopefully this was not overly optimistic.
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In addition to working like a dog, July means corn. I've never had much of an opinion on corn on the cob--I like it and all, but I don't wait for summer with baited breath because of it--but I got some ears at the farmers' market last weekend, and they were delicious. Yum. Plus, at this point in the year, you can get them for as little as ten cents an ear at some places.
(Query: Am I the only person who thinks a partially-shucked ear of corn, with the casing and silk all pulled down but not pulled off yet, looks like weird representation of a hula dancer?)
Hooray summer for feeding me well, healthily, and cheaply, and also for giving me entertainment with my food. Even if it does mean I have cornsilk all over my kitchen floor now.
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