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Mar. 9th, 2005 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupMental note:
When turning in a draft of your second thesis chapter make sure you have edited out all the bits where you have not yet managed to find the title of the reference book and so wrote "For more information on this topic see BLEARGH BLAH DE BLAH" because your thesis advisor will, in fact, notice and mock you mercilessly.
"Ah yes, Bleargh, of the infamous Italian DeBlah family..."
In other news, can you tell a programming language inventor from a serial killer?
I scored 9/10, so according to the test "your liver is safe" but I think that's partially because I recognised two of the serial killers (I read true crime novels occasionally. Shut up). What struck me as hilarious was the profile of one programmer: He "retired in 1995 to spend more time on number theory and the computational and mathematical aspects of weaving."
This man RETIRED in order to DO MORE MATHS.
By tomorrow I have to have graded seventeen more papers; by Friday I have to have completed the section on drag for the thesis and turned it in.
I think I'm going to be spending much of this afternoon curled up with a large book about cross-dressing and a movie about blackface. My life has achieved a pleasant level of surreality.
When turning in a draft of your second thesis chapter make sure you have edited out all the bits where you have not yet managed to find the title of the reference book and so wrote "For more information on this topic see BLEARGH BLAH DE BLAH" because your thesis advisor will, in fact, notice and mock you mercilessly.
"Ah yes, Bleargh, of the infamous Italian DeBlah family..."
In other news, can you tell a programming language inventor from a serial killer?
I scored 9/10, so according to the test "your liver is safe" but I think that's partially because I recognised two of the serial killers (I read true crime novels occasionally. Shut up). What struck me as hilarious was the profile of one programmer: He "retired in 1995 to spend more time on number theory and the computational and mathematical aspects of weaving."
This man RETIRED in order to DO MORE MATHS.
By tomorrow I have to have graded seventeen more papers; by Friday I have to have completed the section on drag for the thesis and turned it in.
I think I'm going to be spending much of this afternoon curled up with a large book about cross-dressing and a movie about blackface. My life has achieved a pleasant level of surreality.
