May 28, 2015
I have discovered Denver’s source of magic: A distaff. (which is a staff used for weaving, interestingly)
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I have discovered Denver’s source of magic: A distaff. (which is a staff used for weaving, interestingly)
A selection from a shadow graduate school guide: Your dissertation
Points from a shadow guide to graduate study in psychology: Dissertation
1. Before beginning your dissertation, examine carefully your own beliefs about your dissertation in comparison to the expectations and requirements of your program, mentor, and committee. For example, your own beliefs might be that your dissertation should be a grand project with significant results that is written up in a long document, whereas your program and mentor might have much different expectations and hopes. It might be that your beliefs are larger than or even contradict the beliefs of your advisor. If your own beliefs or hopes are much more difficult to accomplish than those of your program and mentor, contemplate your course of action carefully. For example, it is unlikely that anyone requires that your dissertation be the largest and grandest project you are working on at the moment: Why not make your dissertation a sure bet and also work on something more difficult to accomplish?
2. As an extension of 1., consider how your dissertation will help your career. If your intent is a career in academia, you certainly want a dissertation that will deserve one or more publications. However, even more so your dissertation will help your career by getting done in a timely manner. On the job market, you can certainly hope to discuss your dissertation research, but: (a) you will not get onto the job market until the dissertation is done or very nearly so, and (b) your dissertation will probably not be the research that gets you the interview (among other things, unless you take a long time after your PhD, your dissertation research is unlikely to be "out" yet at the time of your application).
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15. An email to your committee members reminding them of the date and time of your defense sent the day before generally doesn't hurt. Academics, herding cats, etc.
(Do the other 12 points exist? Not yet. Am I sure I can come up with at least 12 more points eventually? Certainly.)
PBP. H. Hare.
I have an irrational fear of rabbits.
(Please insert your Buffy- or Python-themed jokes here.)
It started out kind of as a joke, if you can believe it, due to a fanfic I was writing when I was 18 (I shit you not). One of the characters had a drug-and-booze-fueled hallucination about killer pink bunnies, and my co-author and I joked about being afraid of them from that point on. (Should probably mention that a man in a pink bunny costume is a reoccurring Green Day concert gag, hence the reference in said fanfic.) Then I saw Monty Python, and the killer rabbit became my justification for this still-mostly-fictional fear.
But beneath all the jokes and fake fear, I do sincerely have a strong aversion to rabbits. The twitching noses and nervous disposition and sudden jumping… puts me on edge.
As you can imagine, Easter is not my favorite time of year.
I was in college and was researching animal guides when I came across the concept of shadow animals. That is, animal guides who challenge us, or represent lessons we don’t want to face. And what are some things the rabbit symbolizes? Fear, anxiety, and walking the underworlds.
All of which happen to be issues bundled into the clusterfuck that is my daddy’s death. (As mentioned in prior PBP posts, I have Daddy issues.)
It’s the Easter season now; I remember enough of my Catholic upbringing to know that the Catholics are celebrating 50 days of post-crucifixion partying before Jesus ascends. Rabbits abound… so this would probably be a really good time for me to face that stupid shadow guide of mine and work out some of that clusterfuck. About time I put some of those ghosts to rest.
At the very least, it’d be great if I could make it through Easter without cringing as my mother laughingly presents me with a new stuffed pink rabbit.
That one hyena pic reminded me that I still have to finish that one drawing...