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I wrote 14 pages for my second day of comprehensive exams.
I mentioned this on Facebook and the professor who gave me the question — she is a wonderful lady and a terrific inspiration; if I could be half as talented and successful and hardworking as her I’d be more than thrilled — liked my status.
I’m taking that as having passed the question. No need to spend any more time considering it!
And now I have two more days to go. Now the fun, hard, sleepy stuff begins.
Keep ’em crossed!
I wrote something like 4,000 words today on my theory question. I think that deserves a day off from writing anything else.
The rest of my day will be spent studying for the next few questions.
Keep ’em crossed!
I have finished preparing for one of my four comps questions.
The studying of another is half-done. A third has been written in the curious way these things come together in my head before I ever sit down to type. The fourth … has a way to go yet.
In the meantime, ghillie suits!
Just keep playing that over and over until you are incorrigibly happy.
(The Yankee and I spent Valentines day working on our various school tasks. Just as well. Last night we celebrated our as-precise-as-we-can anniversary of being a couple. We went out for dinner and then came home and talked about experimental methodology. We’re very romantic.)
Where we pad Sunday with pictures that never made it to the site. Poor, sad pictures. Don’t want their feelings to get hurt.
“Come to the blog on Sunday! Everyone looks pictures on Sunday!”
Yes, that one is small, but click the image to embiggen. This one has been sitting in my iPhone for a while. This is a parking lot in Homewood, Ala. Can you guess what I was doing there? Shot, and automatically stitched together by the free Panorama app. Not perfect, but, again, it is a panaroma shot from my phone. What an age.
Sunset over Auburn, Ala.
This will not be an inexpensive repair. Lesson: always counterweight your tripod.
Sometimes the sun catches you just right.
I love peanut butter as much as the next guy, but who needs six pounds of it at a time?
Church, read, studied, wrote, raked leaves. I have one of my four comps questions now sufficiently researched. (At least I hope.) Three more (all in various stages of progress) to go!
Come back tomorrow as I fret about two of those remaining questions.
But now, The Yankee and I are going out for early-Valentine’s Day/dating anniversary dinner.
(Six wonderful years!)
I’m not saying that this place will be dead silent for the next few days (two weeks, really). But this is the stretchiest of stretch runs. A lot of things are coming up in the next two weeks, work- and school-wise.
I figure you don’t really want to hear about image events or ideographs, within-subjects and between-subjects design, qualitative and quantitative research in political communication and the intricacies of recognition, recall and learning anyway.
So give me two weeks to navigate through all of these things and emerge from the brain cloud on the other side. There will still be a few things here, just to say I’ve written something here every day, but it will probably all be as thin and bland as this. I appreciate your understanding, you quiet and kind masses who come read this stuff.
(All 14 of you are delightful people, really.)
And I won’t ask you yet, because it would just lead to cramps, but soon I’ll hope you cross your fingers for me.
