Isn’t that how everyone spends their days? I am currently scanning in newsletters from the microfilm reels of the Clarke Papers, and I have been working more on one of my dissertation chapters. I can not believe how slowly the writing goes. Didn’t I used to write faster than this?
Right now I’m working on a [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 27, 2009
Dissertating and Microfilming
August 17, 2009
Back in Santa Barbara
Well, I made it back to Santa Barbara last night. It was a very enjoyable vacation, for the most part, in the northwest. To correct something I said earlier, you can in fact get a number of real ales up there. Cask conditioning is very “in,” it would appear. The beer was delicious, and I [...]
August 7, 2009
Goodbye
This is something more of a personal post. It’s probably not the right forum, but it will have to do. I found out last night that one of my roommates from college died two years ago. He was 29 (he would be 31 now). You always kind of figure that someone would tell you these [...]
August 6, 2009
Greetings from Corvallis, OR
I’ve been in Corvallis for about half a week now. My girlfriend and I are house/catsitting for our shared advisor. It seemed like a way to get out of town without having to pay for a hotel, and the cats are friendly (ignoring the bite marks on my hand).
I have to say that Corvallis has [...]
August 1, 2009
Cheaters
I don’t have anything to report on Mabbott right now. I just wanted to mention that I have graded 15 papers so far, and 3 of them were plagiarized. Rather, two students plagiarized, and one bought an essay off of lotsofessays.com. I can’t handle any more right now.
Anybody want to commiserate over a glass of [...]
