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ink_splotchOne of the things I love about going for an ultrasound is the other people. All of whom stare at you as if you've just wandered in from the street wearing next-to-nothing, on your way from one man to another. Without fail. It's hilarious.
Also in the hilarity column, I was watching Ice Blues in the livingroom while doing dishes with Bean. Housemate C wondered in, and watch a couple of the action scenes with us, and was like: wow, guns, knifes, hand-to-hand combat, this has everything!
Bean and I: *do not say "And gay sex!"*
C: You probably like it for the right reasons, like character development and plot and interactions.
Bean and I: *giggle madly and do not say "And gay sex!"*
Good times, man.
So, what else is new? The SU is threatening to cut me off if I don't send them documents which I've already sent. Twice. I'm not sure what's going on there, but I figure call them Thursday and sort this out. They're nice people right? I mean. For a Danish government agency.
My dissertation presentation is next Thursday; it currently has a powerpoint and will possibly actually have a speech to go with it by Thursday. It's just that I still don't actually know what I'm doing. There's part of me that's very (very) tempted to go full on cultural studies and just talk about the representation of the struggle for a working family model in my texts, but that seems too easy and also more like I'm doing a sociology degree than an English degree - not that I'm not tempted at this point. Particularly because I've been reading a lot of Stephanie Coontz, who makes family theory seem fun and useful, and compounds her damage by also being really useful in relation to my dissertation.
My dissertation is, at the moment, for those following this saga, currently titled: Real and Imagined Communities in Coming of Age Literature. Which is a pretentious way of saying: Families, real and created. It is actually quite interesting - I'm certainly more excited about this than I've been about any title for a while, but it just all seems like so much stress, you know? Like, I've been doing this for six months now, how is it not done?
Oh, life, why so crazy?
I'm off to dance around to the Scissor Sisters some more. Because I wouldn't want to be productive or anything.
Also in the hilarity column, I was watching Ice Blues in the livingroom while doing dishes with Bean. Housemate C wondered in, and watch a couple of the action scenes with us, and was like: wow, guns, knifes, hand-to-hand combat, this has everything!
Bean and I: *do not say "And gay sex!"*
C: You probably like it for the right reasons, like character development and plot and interactions.
Bean and I: *giggle madly and do not say "And gay sex!"*
Good times, man.
So, what else is new? The SU is threatening to cut me off if I don't send them documents which I've already sent. Twice. I'm not sure what's going on there, but I figure call them Thursday and sort this out. They're nice people right? I mean. For a Danish government agency.
My dissertation presentation is next Thursday; it currently has a powerpoint and will possibly actually have a speech to go with it by Thursday. It's just that I still don't actually know what I'm doing. There's part of me that's very (very) tempted to go full on cultural studies and just talk about the representation of the struggle for a working family model in my texts, but that seems too easy and also more like I'm doing a sociology degree than an English degree - not that I'm not tempted at this point. Particularly because I've been reading a lot of Stephanie Coontz, who makes family theory seem fun and useful, and compounds her damage by also being really useful in relation to my dissertation.
My dissertation is, at the moment, for those following this saga, currently titled: Real and Imagined Communities in Coming of Age Literature. Which is a pretentious way of saying: Families, real and created. It is actually quite interesting - I'm certainly more excited about this than I've been about any title for a while, but it just all seems like so much stress, you know? Like, I've been doing this for six months now, how is it not done?
Oh, life, why so crazy?
I'm off to dance around to the Scissor Sisters some more. Because I wouldn't want to be productive or anything.
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Date: 2008-11-25 07:19 pm (UTC)Also, P. Wentz had a baby? ♥ y/y?
If you want, I can call SU-styrelsen and curse at them? It might not help, but it's maybe make you (and me) feel better.
But the Continued Saga of Maries Dissertation is, as ever, very exciting. I never know where's it's going to end up, only that it's going to be more and more fascinationg as time passes.
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Date: 2008-11-27 04:50 pm (UTC)I know! And named in ridiculous things! Oh, Pete.
Yay, that would totally be good. If you could also mention that the opening times are not actually practical for people who are education, thus defeating THE ENTIRE PURPOSE?
Hee! *pokes tongue out*
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Date: 2008-11-27 07:40 pm (UTC)Sure, I'll get right on that. :)
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Date: 2008-11-28 05:35 pm (UTC)Actually, they just sent me a very nice email saying, oops, maybe they did mess up and hey, don't sweat, which I thought was quite nice of them. <3
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Date: 2008-11-28 05:42 pm (UTC)Yay! So they aren't, like, made up of 100% evil - good to know. :)