it's saturday night, and it's time for an update!
it was a quiet night in. going out just felt like a lot of work .... so my wife and i just sort of hung out around the house. it was nice. i felt like i needed a night to recharge...
so, the thesis issue has, ostensibly, been resolved.
the compromise? well, instead of trying to rehabilitate the current thesis i have turned in ... my advisor (the first reader, the enigmatic E.) talked to advisor 2 and got her to accept a change of content. this past fall, i wrote a paper for E. on the notion of diets and democracy. a little cultural studies type piece that was a sort of discourse analysis of diet books. apparently, *that* is going to become the master's thesis - which works out well since E. wanted me to work it into a publishable piece in the first place.
as for the thesis-that-was-not-a-thesis ... it's going to be the first draft of my prospective that i'll turn to NEXT fall (say in about 6 months i guess), once i'm in my post-exam haze of euorphia and exhaustion.
this is a fair compromise. i mean, i'll get a published piece out of it and it'll make my life easy. but i don't really like it. not b/c the ending is bad. it just feels fucking lame. i know i didn't exactly fail per say (i did what E. wanted, E and advisor 2 disagreed about what was necessary etc). but jeez ... it feels embarrassing. thats the best word for it. so it goes. i've built character. i'll live.
another thing that sucks: taxes. blargh. b/c of the way my fellowship works, they don't take OUT money when i get paid. so we have to end up paying. so that goes too. just doing my part to support the social good...
ok. hopefully that is the last dramatic entry for a while.
it was a quiet night in. going out just felt like a lot of work .... so my wife and i just sort of hung out around the house. it was nice. i felt like i needed a night to recharge...
so, the thesis issue has, ostensibly, been resolved.
the compromise? well, instead of trying to rehabilitate the current thesis i have turned in ... my advisor (the first reader, the enigmatic E.) talked to advisor 2 and got her to accept a change of content. this past fall, i wrote a paper for E. on the notion of diets and democracy. a little cultural studies type piece that was a sort of discourse analysis of diet books. apparently, *that* is going to become the master's thesis - which works out well since E. wanted me to work it into a publishable piece in the first place.
as for the thesis-that-was-not-a-thesis ... it's going to be the first draft of my prospective that i'll turn to NEXT fall (say in about 6 months i guess), once i'm in my post-exam haze of euorphia and exhaustion.
this is a fair compromise. i mean, i'll get a published piece out of it and it'll make my life easy. but i don't really like it. not b/c the ending is bad. it just feels fucking lame. i know i didn't exactly fail per say (i did what E. wanted, E and advisor 2 disagreed about what was necessary etc). but jeez ... it feels embarrassing. thats the best word for it. so it goes. i've built character. i'll live.
another thing that sucks: taxes. blargh. b/c of the way my fellowship works, they don't take OUT money when i get paid. so we have to end up paying. so that goes too. just doing my part to support the social good...
ok. hopefully that is the last dramatic entry for a while.
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I totally didn't pay taxes last year. Even if I don't get fined, I'll be cutting a big old check to the guv-mint soon enough.
Perhaps the memo will read "thanks for buying missiles instead of funding biomedical researchers like me."