hey, we're back
With a hearty "Fuck you!" to Blogger and its inability to handle properly rendered CSS (I swear to god it wasn't me) we're back! I opted against paying $15 to use custom CSS with WordPress because I had no guarantee what I wanted to do would work, so I decided to say "screw you" to prettier, W3C validated CSS to this dumbed-down version of a template I have that's worked before. So that's that.
My research program is officially over tomorrow (August 1st). You have no idea how upset I am about this - I loved living in an apartment and receiving hearty paychecks biweekly without having to worry about being sucked into the nightmarish world of hourly wage. I'm not trying to sound like a snob or anything, but I've worked plenty of those kinds of jobs, and I have to say, I like this much, much better. It's not to say that if it ends up that I don't get re-accepted to FURSCA next summer that I will snub hourly jobs entirely, it's just more fun to read all day and get paid for it.
Speaking of that, I'm starting to write my paper (that is the eventual product of my work this semester) and prepare my presentation for the video lecture I will hopefully be doing this fall, and holy crap, academia. My advisor told me last night, "I like what you have so far. Now give me four more pages of it." I guess the idea with academic work is to leave no question of what you are doing, and that's hard - I can't see my work "outside of myself", so when I write it, I think I am resolving every loose end I can think of. Alas, it isn't the case. Every single item I write in my introduction alone needs to be explained down to the last detail. I'm not complaining, but it is a hard (and valuable) skill to learn, I guess.
That said, now that I've punished my poor blog for being bad and fixed shit, I suppose I should go to bed. Or something. Right.
My research program is officially over tomorrow (August 1st). You have no idea how upset I am about this - I loved living in an apartment and receiving hearty paychecks biweekly without having to worry about being sucked into the nightmarish world of hourly wage. I'm not trying to sound like a snob or anything, but I've worked plenty of those kinds of jobs, and I have to say, I like this much, much better. It's not to say that if it ends up that I don't get re-accepted to FURSCA next summer that I will snub hourly jobs entirely, it's just more fun to read all day and get paid for it.
Speaking of that, I'm starting to write my paper (that is the eventual product of my work this semester) and prepare my presentation for the video lecture I will hopefully be doing this fall, and holy crap, academia. My advisor told me last night, "I like what you have so far. Now give me four more pages of it." I guess the idea with academic work is to leave no question of what you are doing, and that's hard - I can't see my work "outside of myself", so when I write it, I think I am resolving every loose end I can think of. Alas, it isn't the case. Every single item I write in my introduction alone needs to be explained down to the last detail. I'm not complaining, but it is a hard (and valuable) skill to learn, I guess.
That said, now that I've punished my poor blog for being bad and fixed shit, I suppose I should go to bed. Or something. Right.