O.K.A.C. #1: Intro to sensemaking, aka “How can I know what I think until I see what I say?”
Operation Kick Ass Comps topic #1: Intro to Sensemaking Writing and talking about sensemaking makes my brain hurt. When I think I …
Operation Kick Comps Ass: How I plan to survive comprehensive exams
A few stacks of my actual reading list. I don’t lie when I say I’d much rather write two dissertations than do …
Two years down: A Doctoretta in the house and a wife on the way
Photo of Monsieur Heston from Google images. I started counting down officially at 100 days. 100 days left living in the desert. …
Zen goal setting and overcoming my strange relationship with time
The Zen-est picture on my desktop. From our Hopscotch Honeymoon stop in Keokuk, IA. As you know, I’m a list-making freak (see …
Thursday 13: The dirt on doctoral studies
Yesterday in class, we scrawled narratives about the experience of being in our doctoral program. While I went the stream-of-consciousness-I’m-too-tired-to-think-straight route, my …
Answering the ‘WTF?’ questions and other curios
What you get from a Google images search term of “WTF?” (Credit) Today I shared some of my research experience with a …
Going to Hawaii “on business”: Photos and things
Sometimes it feels like I live in an alternate reality. In what world do GRAD STUDENTS get sent to Hawaii for “business” …
Managing media: A shout-out to speech communication and drama teachers everywhere
I smiled like a Cheshire cat walking into the terminal after the continuation of Southwest Flight 812, service to Sacramento. After surviving …
Why my as-yet unborn children will attend a small, probably-Christian liberal arts college (with single-sex dorms, nuns, and an 8:00 curfew)
Scene: A large “luxury”* apartment complex two miles Southeast of a ridiculously huge university** in the Southwestern United States with a reputation …
Blog therapy because the piranhas are eating my brains
Warning: This is a personal rant designed to improve my sanity and may not be interesting/witty/thought provoking in the least. Read on …