"Oh my god." This scene of an undergrad asking for a letter of rec was both hilarious and scary. It made me wonder if I was ever this naïve as an undergrad? (However, I was certainly not as arrogant, nor would I have basically ignored the professor's arguments.) Although neither a professor nor an undergrad, I definitely identified with the professor. Must be all the cynicism.
H/t to ladysquires, who also has a way more interesting reading than I do.
I have passed the worst of the deadline crunch (basically all of October through the first week of November), so I have been re-focused on the dissertation. Co-chair #1 confirmed that the last chapter I sent her needs a lot of work but made great suggestions on making it stronger. At least she didn't say, Scrap this and start all over! which I was afraid she might do. While revising that chapter, I have decided to continue with writing the next one.
I am adding a fun little image meter from Writertopia accounting for my progress on that new chapter. I've placed it at the bottom of the blog. I don't know how often I will be able to update it -- probably as often as I update this blog. But, yeah, I do feel rather like that angry little brown nut-looking dude (or does he look like something worse?), literally hammering away at his computer threatening his computer with a gun (dang, my eyes are terrible!). You can see that the meter was meant for those writing novels (most helpful for things like NaNoWriMo's goal of 50,000 words in one month), but I liked the cartoon anyway. It's a little harder to set a specific goal for a dissertation chapter, so I set it to a modest 10,000. I don't even know how to include revisions since that is where most of my writing goes. Well, we'll see what happens by the end of this month.
H/t to StyleyGeek for the progress meter link and the idea to use for the diss.
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