Moot Thoughts & Musings

Dial "M" has a link to me.
Ack. Now I have to be smart.
And I better quit calling my thesis stupid.

Just kidding. (Hey, I'd love all my posts to be brilliant, but they aren't.)
Actually they have a great post about blogs and discursive responsibility.

Hey, check out the new student site for my discipline's national meeting. I've helped with it the past few years, and it's always fun to see the final product. Wish I could go! Somehow Los Angeles is so unattainable. It's a bummer, too, because I've been to the past 5 meetings and always enjoy them so much. A real pick-me-up. It's because I'm social and the rest of my year is spent alone at a desk surrounded by the Paper Mongol Hordes.

Anyway, I worked on my thesis today. My mom can come on Tuesdays to watch Ellis. It ended up being kind of a weird day, but I did get some good work done. I'm pulling together a Where I Stand Draft. I think it'll be easier to fill in gaps/answer questions if I have a solid structure already in place.

I visited my manuscript last week. (Which you already know if you watched the movie) There is NOTHING like visiting the ms in person. I know this thing like the back of my hand, but I am never prepared for the sensation of seeing it in person. I hope that someday I get paid to visit manuscripts in person.

I'm also coming to terms with the fact that sometimes when you research, you find, and that's great. But sometimes you don't find, and that's hard, because when do you stop looking? Well, now. I'm done looking. I feel like I've searched enough to have made a responsible account for my situation. I've talked with librarians who agree. And my advisor always has an encouraging "focus on what you can know." But it's really unnerving not to find!

anyway...future blog plans include a review of a recent Medeski album... (ack, now I'm committed!)