Seventh Inning Stretch
* You know how much I loathe and hate historiographical essays? You know how glad I will be when this one is done? half-way there!
* It's mid-90s outside, and I just want to pause and express how thankful I am for our new air conditioner!
* Congratulations to the Knutsons on the birth of Eden!
I am so ready to have our baby. I don't even care that we don't have a bed for him yet or that we have to move over 1200 miles yet or that I have to write 10 more pages and take two stinkin' finals yet or that really there's 9 weeks left to gestate so that he'll be a happy, healthy human being breathin' oxygen. uum...Okay. Given that last point, I'm happy to carry the little fish for a bit longer. C'mon lungs!
I think he's growing every day. Of course, he is. But I really think I feel a noticeable difference from day to day. Given that I had only gained a pound at my last appt, he's probably making up for it a little bit...growing in spurts. My bellybutton is completely extroverted now, but it's so stretched out that it doesn't stick out all that much.
Okay. Must. Finish. Essay.
Comments
I looooove historiographic essays! I think they are my forte.
Posted by: Anastasia | May 12, 2005 3:15 PM
Ewww. I have decided that they were invented to be busy work for graduate students. So good for you if you like them. :-P
Posted by: Jeannette | May 12, 2005 5:11 PM
I like historiographic essays too, my SIP was one in fact. Reading your blog makes me wish I had gone on to grad school too (despite the times when you are stressed out), maybe someday! I kind of miss school.
Posted by: jlg | May 12, 2005 5:24 PM
Yeah, no kidding about needing A/C here. I've barely been outside this week because of the weather (and because I've been working on my thesis and knitting). There are times when I think it'd be fun to have outdoor furniture so that we could have a peaceful, relaxing meal outside, but I think that in mid-May, we've already passed the point at which eating outdoors is still comfortable. Maybe we'll have a few more days of 70s or low 80s before the summer kicks it into high gear... here's hoping. Of course, you get to escape. =)
Posted by: Erica | May 12, 2005 8:39 PM
yeah...well. i don't know that they serve any useful purpose. I mean, you might write one for your diss or if you publish a review of lit essay. but my director has me taking all such discussion of historiography out of my diss, which makes me feel like why did I learn to do this?? maybe it is just busy work.
but I still love them.
Posted by: Anastasia | May 12, 2005 10:36 PM
Perhaps it is a conspiracy. All history PhD's have to take a vow at their dissertation defense that they will assign lots of monographs for reading to their graduate students so that all their dissertations-turned-monographs will be read by somebody.
Posted by: Jeannette | May 12, 2005 11:45 PM