Me and My Thesis: A Dialogue

Or, A Cautionary Tale About Balancing Teaching and Scholarship
by icepixie

Me: Hey, thesis! Man, I am so excited about finally spending some time with you tonight.
My thesis: Oh, you won't be spending time with me tonight.
Me: What?!
My thesis: I'm tired of you always off grading, or preparing for your classes, or reading for that other class you take. Don't think I can't see how often you have ink stains from your grading pen on your fingers.
Me: I know I've been distant lately, but we had dinner together last week, didn't we? And I brought you some new ideas from your favorite theorist...
My thesis: Sorry, I have to wash my hair.
Me: But baby, come on, we've gotta get some work done...
My thesis: I deck myself out in quotations and metaphors, I put my best paragraphs forward, and what do I get? "Not tonight, dear, I have grading." Forget it! I'm not about to be won over by theorists, or poems, or anything else you're bringing to the text.
Me: But I cleared off my schedule for you tonight and all day tomorrow. We won't have to leave Word until Friday morning! Whatdya say?
My thesis: Eh. I'm not feelin' it.

Character meme

Since my thesis only gave me two paragraphs before stopping communication, have a meme, originally from spleeny:

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands [fannish etc.] that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2) Have your f-list guess your favourite character/member from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strikethrough the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.

Some of these should be blindingly obvious for anyone who's read my journal ever. Others have multiple correct answers.

1. Northern Exposure
2. due South Benton Fraser (magsyb)
3. Castle Kate Beckett and Richard Castle (magsyb)
4. Slings & Arrows Geoffrey Tennant and Anna Conroy (munditia)
5. Babylon 5 Susan Ivanova (magsyb)
6. Corner Gas
7. Doctor Who (entire franchise) Charley Pollard (magsyb)
8. Deep Space 9
9. Battlestar Galactica Laura Roslin (munditia)
10. Vorkosigan series Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan (munditia)
11. Farscape John Crichton and Aeryn Sun (spleeny)
12. Earth 2 Julia Heller (rensong)
13. The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne Rebecca Fogg (rensong)
14. Crusade
15. Wonderfalls Jaye Tyler (spleeny)
16. SG-1
17. Atlantis Elizabeth Weir (spleeny) [There's still one more possibility for sharing the number one spot, if anyone cares to guess.]
18. Harry Potter Hermione Granger (spleeny)
19. Cupid Claire Allen (alethialia)
20. Pushing Daisies Aunt Lily (magsyb)