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  • I'm getting very daring in my old age.I just told my neighbor's son to get out of my tree. While the neighbor was watching.I was very Methodist about it--I called him "sweetie" and told him it was because the branch was…

  • I am now . . .

    ABD.I passed.I'm done.I'm going to bed now, and I'm not getting up for a month.

  • Almost . . . there . . .

    Written portion: finished.Oral defense (AKA ritual hazing ceremony): still to come.

  • Happy day!!Stephen passed!!He's now a doctoral candidate!!(Actually, I don't know if that's true. I think he has to defend his dissertation proposal before he can call himself that. But we'll just call him that in our …

  • Two down, two to go.Only typed twelve pages in three hours this time. I'm slowing down. It's too soon for that.

  • Now I'm getting really annoyed.I've just discovered that the online grade reporting tool that I've been using to hand back grades to my undergrad class gives them extensive data on their performance versus that of their …

  • In a bit of a surprise, this was the text the kids in my undergrad Religion and Medicine class were most fired up about.Maybe because The Constant Gardener made it sexy; maybe because the recent hullabaloo about Merk lob…

  • The date is set (almost); the questions and the booklists are set (almost); all that's left now is the studying.I decided to embark on a prelim organization project that has as its aim both organizing study time efficien…

  • Well, I've met with all members of my prelim committee, and have a more-or-less firm idea of what my exam questions will, in general, be on.I'm supposed to finalize book lists in the next week, and hopefully get a schedu…

  • A quote from one of Stephen's professors:"If you torture a text long enough, it will confess."Heh heh heh.This is either a devastatingly brilliant critique of the modern (and post-modern) academy, or a prelim survival st…

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