| Yay! I can stop dressing like a bum and feeling tired all the time. FINALS are finis.
When I was going out and masquerading as a "not-a-bum," here are some things I wore:
( Some repeats already! Oops. )
That enough of me for now. I'm going to try to keep up with this. We'll see. So far it's half-assed, but at least it exists at all. | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment   |
| "But they've got a stick of dynamite up your ass and the fuse is burning." - Foxy Brown
FOXY BROWN! Awesome, ya dig? Oh man, such a great movie. Pam Grier's earlier film Coffey - not as good. But Foxy Brown? I can dig!
That's all. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Pardon me, but it's finals countdown time. The Mary Ritter Beard paper, at a satisfying 15 pgs. is pretty much done. Whoopwhoop. Now I'm trying to work on the paper on the film industry in military occupied postWWII Germany, but dang, I just can't get a move on.
Sometime in the next four days I'll also be selectively compressing my thesis from a ~60 page monster into a ~10 page summary.
I hope most of this happens today, I'd really like to enjoy the weekend and pick up the ukulele again before I go to Colorado for Christmas.
Went to the drug dealer to get some drugs today (aka went to Walgreens to get some Rxs) which will hopefully make my ears feel better.
The very little-sensical mishmash in my brain at the moment:
Mary Ritter Beard's work on women's role in history never gained much recognition until the 1970s. Even then it wasn't completely adopted since her attitudes were of the anti-ERA/non-bra burning type, despite her early roots with the militant suffragist era feminists. I'd really like to watch a bunch of blaxploitation films. I feel like there is some similar sense of something between the 1930s, 1970s, 2000s (or 2010s now?). Economic downturns, individuals fighting for deserved rights. I just ran across something talking about a historian-guy who analyzed and presented the idea of history as cyclical, but unfortunately I don't remember his name. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Dancing in the Dark came in the mail today, whoo! New book on the cultural history of the Great Depression. I decided it counted as "school" so it was okay to buy it.
My head kinda hurts. But maybe I'm just tired of my ears hurting and my eyes hurting. Argh.
I look like a bag lady today. I can't wait to get dressed up, wear make-up and earrings again.
Got a free moo.com moocard holder in the mail too.
But where is my $800 stipend check to repay all the costs from DC?! Still MIA. I have some hope (or worry?) since one of my classmates received hers in the mail earlier in the week.
I'm sad I'm not going to the American Historical Association conference in January, if only because I'd really like to listen to my old UCSB professors present papers. My undergrad thesis adviser and my proseminar teacher are both presenting, and they are both really great speakers to listen to.
Instead I'm just going to the simultaneously happening PAT conference, as I'm presenting a paper there and can get money to pay for the registration fee. (It's $84 dollars to go to the AHA conference, and as I'm not presenting I can't get grant/stipend money to cover for it. Next year maybe!)
Now back to work! Working on my essay on Mary Ritter Beard:
“Only those who define ‘woman’ as deviant from the norm of ‘man’ require ‘an’ explanation for the way women have acted.” | | comments: Leave a comment |
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DWP Lights Festival at Griffith Park
"...it is not the function of an archivist to create a jigsaw puzzle out of the research materials of his nation."
- T.R. Schellenberg “Archival Principles of Arrangement"
Done with short answer section for my Archival Methods and Theory class Final - on to the essays!
+1 million page denazification paper
+Women's History Historiography Essay on Mary Ritter Beard (awesomest historian from the early 20th century - I'm focusing on her book, Women as Force in History)
+8-10 pg. version of my undergrad thesis to send to the Phi Alpha Theta conference panel chair by Dec 18. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| 5 beers = poor choice. Especially the night before the anniversary of the end of Prohibition. Sigh.
I need to get to work. I'm thinking Archival final today and tomorrow, and then denazificiation paper at every other open opportunity this week. Oh, and that 601 essay. Oh man, oh man. I need to stop being social probably. Oh well. Can't miss the cocktail party, tea party, birthday party, and holiday dinner that are all going to transpire within the next week or so. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| This critique paper on archival documentation strategy is the most painful paper I've written in a long time. The topic isn't terrible - it's only the requirement that it be 10 pages. Now, you don't have to tell me 10 pages isn't very long. The 18 pages I cranked out in a few hours the other night attest to the fact that page count is no object in general. But in this specific case it counts. The article is tiny, the other material I have to work with is almost all actually mentioned/summarized in the article itself. Nothing is new. So I ramble ramble ramble on, when really this could be a nice concise 7 or so pages.
I was going to type "ramblerambleramble," but it looks more liberated with spaces between it. Liberated lies. I have two pages to add to the current poo pile. I can't decide if I should continue tonight or throw in the towel and wake up early to embellish. I mean, I can write the same thing 10 different ways to fill up space, but I'm trying to distance myself from that old bad habit (what can I say? I like being a thesaurus of sentences.) | | comments: Leave a comment |
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