I don't think you should be able to be logged into the U with your X.500 password simultaneously from two computers...but you can. I started an entry here yesterday, forgot about it, went to work, logged in there, came home. Odd.
It finally occurred to me today that the reason I've been avoiding re-reading my previous papers on Western Front trenches in order to see if there is an article there is that I am loath to confront my bad, old writing and muddled, old ideas. What if there is nothing there worth writing about at all? But I took a deep breath and found the first paper, and in the very first paragraph I have established what I'm going to write about and why it matters. So there may be hope.
Proof of my lack of focus: I'm now also reading an undergraduate textbook on World Geography, part of my mission of cramming an undergraduate education in the field into an already-overcommitted summer. In some ways it's easier reading than the other stuff I have in the hopper, but at the same time it's very detailed and fact-filled.
The summer is half over. Bah hambug. I wish every day could be like this one, right through til Labor Day: cool, crisp, sunny. I rode to work today and was, for once, relaxed enough to enjoy it.
Faculty do not like it when you (as a grad student) treat them as equals. But I keep "forgetting my place" and doing it anyway. I'll save the details for a clever screed called something like "The Chip in the Ivory Tower." I've always found these sorts of power relations interesting (particularly once I had a position of power and could "play" people for my own amusement), especially the subtle clues of language and body position that indicated what the person thought his or her status was.
Posted by otto0114 at July 8, 2004 08:06 PM