Comments for no matter where you go

Comment on (strictly speaking)… by Lori

Lori — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:12:54 +0000

@OTRgirl – still here, but blogging has been at a minimum while I try to take care of the other stuff! Glad you found me!

Comment on (strictly speaking)… by OTRgirl

OTRgirl — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:27:10 +0000

I’d thought you stopped blogging a while ago! Great to see you’re still around. I’m glad you have a house and are still plugging away on the dissertation.

Comment on (strictly speaking)… by mama nabi

mama nabi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:39:08 +0000

It’s such a wonderful number, though. I’ve known people who include their GPA in their resume… I once saw someone who included their 2.xx GPA on their resume/CV and I thought, WTF?

Comment on Still bringin’ up the rear by mama nabi

mama nabi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:34:53 +0000

Hang in there! And H1N1 has a louder bark than bite.

Comment on Motivation, or lack thereof by wen

wen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:40:32 +0000

i feel your pain!

as someone who has finished a dissertation (and graduated with a ph.d) here’s my advice: it will get done. just do what you can, when you can. your advisor is probably used to tweaky grad students. just don’t be terribly worse than the others and you won’t even register on his or her radar as being a problem.

while “write consistently” is actually excellent advice, the extra pressure of it may be counterproductive for some folks. the other thing i learned is you can’t wait for inspiration. sometimes you have to sit down surrounded by mounds of laundry and just write a crappy paragraph, one you can fix later if needed. another thing that helped me is “parking on a downhill slope”–i always left off at a place it’d be really easy to pick back up at…finish a sentence and then bullet point your next couple of ideas and voila, there’s where you start next time, i.e. by turning those bullets into sentences.

good luck!!

Comment on Motivation, or lack thereof by illahee

illahee — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:08:37 +0000

big big hugs from across the ocean. i can understand the dark dull days. i am hearing you.

Comment on It occurs to me… by lorimori

lorimori — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:18:11 +0000

They were great to have helping – we could never have afforded the labor on all the things we did if we’d had to pay.

Comment on It occurs to me… by illahee

illahee — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:29:36 +0000

that sounds great! very cool about your parents re-doing a lot. i wish i were so handy!!

Comment on The House Across the Street by Mama Nabi

Mama Nabi — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:30:40 +0000

(I had to laugh at illahee’s comment about brother and sister!)

Hm. Interesting co-op living arrangement… could be drugs? The car part stumps me, though.

Comment on Aaaaaaaagh. by illahee

illahee — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:27:35 +0000