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Notes from the Weekend.
Nov. 2nd, 2008 07:29 pmI've discovered that I find it really irritating when a scholar refers to something in a contrastive sense without also describing what that thing is being contrasted with. I realize that it's probably something that everyone who's anyone already knows, but I'm not anyone and I'm trying to learn here. I suppose that's a danger every writer faces; the tendency to neglect information that exists firmly within their own mind. Lord knows I'm guilty of the same shortcoming. But seriously, don't any of these people have editors? When I do stuff like that there are any number of people to reel me in and make me throw in the crucial clarification that makes a paper a winner.
Anyway. If you couldn't tell, I spent most of this weekend reading. I found some really good stuff for my seminar paper. I'm actually way more excited about this project than I ever thought I would be. Done right, this is going to be a major paper for me, and I'm already planning to try shopping it around at some conferences. We'll see how that goes. For reasons I can't explain, I've been really afraid of presenting at conferences ever since I got to grad school (which is ludicrous considering that I presented at conferences as an undergrad and didn't feel any deep anxiety then). I suppose grad school has made me aware of how far I still have to go. And the stakes are higher, etc.
This coming week I'll be working on a new draft of my master's thesis, and I haven't done any work towards that yet. Nor is it likely at this point that I will. I'll admit to feeling a little nervous over that fact, but... you know... whatever.
Still, the weekend was productive overall. I've got a good outline for the seminar paper, most of my primary research for that project is done now, I finished my last required Silk Road response paper, my translation projects are moving ahead at a nice clip, and I figured out how I'm voting on ballot measures and state representatives in Tuesday's election.
I forgot to take the garbage out, though. My bad.
Anyway. If you couldn't tell, I spent most of this weekend reading. I found some really good stuff for my seminar paper. I'm actually way more excited about this project than I ever thought I would be. Done right, this is going to be a major paper for me, and I'm already planning to try shopping it around at some conferences. We'll see how that goes. For reasons I can't explain, I've been really afraid of presenting at conferences ever since I got to grad school (which is ludicrous considering that I presented at conferences as an undergrad and didn't feel any deep anxiety then). I suppose grad school has made me aware of how far I still have to go. And the stakes are higher, etc.
This coming week I'll be working on a new draft of my master's thesis, and I haven't done any work towards that yet. Nor is it likely at this point that I will. I'll admit to feeling a little nervous over that fact, but... you know... whatever.
Still, the weekend was productive overall. I've got a good outline for the seminar paper, most of my primary research for that project is done now, I finished my last required Silk Road response paper, my translation projects are moving ahead at a nice clip, and I figured out how I'm voting on ballot measures and state representatives in Tuesday's election.
I forgot to take the garbage out, though. My bad.
