So according to wordle, this is what we talk about here at pH. Questions, like?, and knowing. Honestly not sure what that means; I surely thought Stuart or Nano would be the biggest word on there. Or at the very least BOOZE or something slightly debauched. There aren’t even very many curse words in there. I feel square.
The past few weeks have been consumed with writing papers for grad school. Good thing I (by proxy) blew all that money on my otherwise useless liberal arts degree at Sarah Lawrence because let me tell you something, writing papers is like riding a bike, and I rode a lot of bikes once. Still, the whole shebang is a lot less easy when you’re no longer the pre-eminent bullshit artist of the East Coast. Not that I bullshitted everything at SLC, but I bullshitted (bullshat?) plenty, especially late at night before a paper was due. And it wasn’t so much me writing the paper anymore but the mainline of Coca-Cola and Skittles I was running on.
But then sometime between 2002 and here, an odd, almost indetectable shift happened (a…dult?..hood?), so grad school is So Much More Serious than undergrad and I’m enjoying everything I’m learning and I’m absorbing it and spouting it back out onto papers but guess what! They still take as long to write and let’s not get started on your reference list once you’re done with all that spouting. I spent all last weekend writing two papers and this weekend mostly writing one (and yelling at the Oscars). I have written about forty pages in a little over a week.
What I have learned from all this: It’s only been five weeks, and I already want to crotch-punch the guy who invented APA style. Who’s with me.
Oh I’ll give him a blow or two. Although I do have to say it comes so second nature now that why bother?
You know, I worked so hard in college for MLA to become second nature that I’ve just spent two weeks having to go back THROUGH my papers removing the underlines from journal titles. *sigh*
The best part about it is when you ask me about MLA style and I shrug helplessly. But if you ask me about Chicago or American Anthropological Association style, I’m TOTALLY your girl.
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Hi there, I don’t know your name but I’ve been following your blog on and off for the past couple of years. I, too, am an SLC grad, and I, too, studied with the illustrious Melvin B, and I’ve really enjoyed everything you write here. I even worked in libraries for a few years. Maybe we’re dopelgangers? Maybe I spelled that wrong?
Anyway, thanks for always writing and sharing your humor and the details of your life and your struggles and triumphs and all that fun stuff. It’s inspired me, actually, to make my own blog. Not that you know anything about me whatsoever, and not that there’s any reason to share the intimate details of my life, but I’m currently in the process of leaving my girlfriend of 5 years, moving from Austin TX to my hometown in Massachusetts, writing a novel, training for a half-marathon, and various other absolutely insane pursuits, and I thought, “maybe there’s some soul out there, SLCer or not, who might want to read something about this sort of thing???”
So I’m gonna do it. And I’m gonna keep looking back at your blog for inspiration. Thanks!