Presently I’m hoping to spend the next 6 months or so writing, and then polishing my thesis. And nothing else, inshallah. I’m hoping I can get it done in time to submit at the end of May, but we’ll see. The next two PhD Comics strips quite nicely sum up my situation:
Category Archives: PhD
It’s alive!
I’ve been thinking about resurrecting this blog for some time now. I think I was rather too ambitious originally, and then the lack of highbrow inertia got to me. Maybe I should stick to vignettes? In any case, when Neil recently wrote that blogging is “a nice warm up exercise for the mind and the […]
The blog is dead, long live .. er, something else..?
That really sums it up. Three “blog” entries in a year is hardly satisfactory (not that I’m trying to satisfy anyone per se), so I concede defeat: clearly writing this blog wasn’t as pressing a concern as other things I do with my endlessly bound days.But I might as well leave this here as a reminder […]
Finding answers
I’ve usually not welcomed the question “what do you do?”, for it inevitably leads to “..so, what are you?”. That is, to having to define the discipline I am in. However, I think from now on I will give the answer suggested by a friend recently: I am an Early Modernist. What has made answering […]
Digital Humanities* and “Digital Humanities 2.0”
Back in June, I attended the Digital Humanities 2008 conference. Digital humanities, for those not in the know (although I’m sure the term is hardly opaque), is the ridiculously wide field covering all humanities disciplines which use computers. So it includes everyone from corpus linguists to software engineers interested in solutions for humanists, and from […]
“To my unknown friends and countrymen”
I’ve quite run out of the habit of keeping a RL, pen-on-paper journal. When I was working on my MA thesis, I had two – one for personal whatsits, and another exclusively for jotting down thoughts and ideas and reflections and screams of despair raised by my thesis. For the past several years, I’ve had […]