new disserter 2010

yep, this site is dead, has been for a year.  why?  partially i got freaked out that some people actually read it.  partially i finished my quals and hid from the world for awhile. partially because i really thought i'd start a star trek blog, buy i haven't been watching star trek lately.  (its been all veronica mars, lost, ugly betty and finally starting battlestar galactica).  

and i never quite liked Pivot (which runs this site) and for reasons i'm still trying to understand, i thought i should learn how to use Drupal.  point is, i set up a new disserter 2010 here, in honor of actually starting my dissertation research for reals.  or atleast the hard parts that involve going places and talking to people.  

here's that exciting link again :  www.jakepeters.org/test

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done

yup.  done.  a week ago today.  not a fun last few days, but as they say, done is better than good.

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i miss spending my days with suryah, here's the result of our last photo shoot:

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ten days older.

i just watched one of my favorite star trek episodes. data learns to dream while worf is off looking for his father, who may have been captive for 20 years. data learning to dream is so beautiful. i love data, so beautiful as he oh, so slowly starts to deal the fact that he can dream. brings tears to my eyes. i'm now pretty much finished with the "general geography" essays. thankfully. today's writing goes better, because i almost care about what i'm writing. plus i get to rant about the "service sector" and i worked in replicator reference.

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so not such a bad day for work, but not a good day for suryah pics. there might be a relation between these occurrences.

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a bad day nine

taking a day off made much sense, and i'm oh, so glad i got far, far away from quals on sunday.  very far.  but damn, coming back hurts.  the day started well and ended well, but the middle, working part was horrid.  i was on the verge of freaking out because i had twelve pages that said nothing and i had to turn it into an essay.  but, an essay or not, its close to done.  i need to get out of the house, working on schedule worked great for week one, not so good now.  but friends called, texted, emailed and brought me burritos and gifts of proofreading today, i cannot complain.  a boy couldn't do this alone. 

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today i went after suryah's eyes and he was a little scared:

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day seven is round two

thus begins the difficult stretch ... i have drafts of everything, now i have one day per essay to turn the drafts into something readable.  ack.  i have achieved the state of un-motivation.  i recognize i can't do anything but work on these papers and i am aware that my body and parts of my mind are working on them, but it is not real.   some might call this denial.  thats fine by me.  atleast it has been gray for the past two days.  today's attempt at alchemy has not been so successful ... i'm hoping for some after dinner energy.  

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half-ish way. day six.

yep, day six.  and i've lost most of my will to write.  bad news.  but i just got to get this boring "general geography" essay drafted and i'll have a draft for every essay.  and then next week will suck rocks because turning my nonsense thoughts into sentences and paragraphs is not an easy task.  but it will get done.  and then on to harder things.  i'm almost enjoying having all day to myself to type.  well, more like, in the horror of this, there is something i enjoy about taking the day to myself.  and i don't have to go to campus.

anyway, more pictures of suryah.  i keep wondering why i've been taking so many pictures of him ... i think i want to remember these two weeks for something worth remembering, and i can locate much in pictures of suryah.  plus, he's pretty damn good looking, and weird.  which is to say i love him.  

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sick day (four)

dang, it would be great to take a sick day. it would be great it graduate school came with any sick days. sure, i don't loose my job if i don't come into work 'cause i sick, but i do miss actual sick days. that beautiful suspend button that affects only you ... atleast at my old library job work didn't build up when i was sick. hmmm, i guess that is in part because i was a service worker? i've been writing all day about the lie of the "service sector" so i'm not so sure that i was a "service worker." hmmm. oh, yeah, i'm sick and its totally not fair. but it might produce interesting results.

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anyway, what everyone dreams of, cat-in-a-bag:

- quals - No comments / No trackbacks - § ¶ April 04 07 - 21:54

only day three?

dang.  focusing is hard.  writing on demand is even less fun.  but i've made it to day three ... writing about the state in the information economy.  i am so going to disappoint my committee, but oh well, i will be done.  i've been at it for 7-ish hours today and i've got four articles and three books to try to finish writing about in the next three hours of work.  dang.  too much to cover, everything is getting incoherent, my right wrist hurts and my back screams when i stand up or sit down.  damn.  odd, my body seems to falling apart but my mind is pretty calm ... i've been sleeping well, not stress induced stomach pains, etc. 

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here is today's dose of suryah pics ... he just lays around and laughs at me, so i take pictures of him:

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