March 2011 – Snark on the Side

Midnight Songs of Forgetting

…and then just like that, all this draft lacks is a conclusion. At a walloping 27+36+31+38 (132?!!!!!?? really?!!!?!?!) pages long, it could do with A LOT of editing, but I’m choosing to ignore that fact tonight. Gulp. Orlando, you and I might be past…

Allow Me to Introduce… (pt.2)

Giving Orlando an introduction would be easier if s/he weren’t so socially awkward. “It can’t be that difficult,” you might be saying. Well, think again. The last time we went to a party together, it went down something like this…* This is my friend Orla– Hi, I’m very interested in heteroglossia and the dialogization ofContinue reading “Allow Me to Introduce… (pt.2)”

Growing Things

Today I… Finished a draft of chapter three! It’s kind of a beast and will require substantial editing, but it feels amazing to send it in for review and let it rest for a day or so. Sometimes a change of scenery is all it takes. Working in a different location really helps me write.Continue reading “Growing Things”

Alternate Career Possibilities

You’ve hit a special place in your thesis-writing career when researching replacement parts for your toilet is suddenly much more interesting than crafting an argument about seventeenth-century theater. Flapper valve, anyone?

Orlando and I Reconcile Over Procrastination

Otherwise known as… A Quasi Logic-Based Attempt to Regain Nominal Appreciation for Orlando, the Thesis That Would Neither Vanish Nor Transmogrify into Something Slightly More Fantastic Than a Million Dollars, Through Misguided Appropriation of Flawed Logic, Outmoded Analogies, Barely Applicable Similes, and Wholly Metaphysical Conceits. But that wouldn’t fit in the title box. So. AttemptContinue reading “Orlando and I Reconcile Over Procrastination”

Chapter 2

Orlando’s still growing! Chapter 2 (currently 30 pages) is now en route to its first checkup. I have to stop taking these 3-day recuperation breaks after each chapter though. Rapidly running out of time, unfortunately. Oh, for April 20!

Plautus, Germs, and Orlando’s Revenge

Boy, I tell you what. I leave Orlando alone for one day and watch the cycle of revenge fly faster than a frisbee in high winds. I think he might have enlisted the aid of the entire germ community within a 50-mile radius. But enough mangled metaphors and hyperbole. After approximately a week of on-again,Continue reading “Plautus, Germs, and Orlando’s Revenge”