Part #2454 of "You know you're ABD when..."
...doing your taxes seems like a better idea than reading that one critical article that may unlock the secrets to your dissertation. Actually, no such article exists. At least, I don't think it does. And if it did, it still wouldn't mean my diss was actually written, just that I'd have more stuff to contemplate and consider writing about.
So, yeah, tax preparation is looking pretty good right now.
(While writing this posting, I searched for dissertation-related images on Google. Pretty interesting stuff, really. Lots of happy graduates clutching their tome with both hands with a slightly dazed look on their faces. Fortunately, my search was not in vain, for I found this blog containing IA related links that should prove useful for my own work.)
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I did my taxes as a way of avoiding some unpleasant realities that were cropping up at work. Then I went to park and juggled in the freezing sunny weather till my hands got to cold. Following that, I went and saw a movie called "Looking for Comedy in a Muslim World", which was only playing in Port Orchard, so I had to take a ferry, and since I was over there, anyway, I cruised the local bookshops for Loompanic books, since the publisher went out of business recently. I am the master of self distraction...behold my glory.
That said, my father has written a few scientific dissertations, and told me the key to writing any scholarly paper is to remember to celebrate milestones. Of course, my father is possibly academically insane, so I wouldn't take it too seriously!
Posted by: Jake | February 15, 2006 11:00 AM