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five and a half notebooks: Book Review
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Five and a half notebooks. Watch as I condense more than two years of rich, varied and somewhat incoherent lived experience into a 300-page dissertation while grappling with all the attendant adventures of post-field graduate school. Oh, look what I just did:. Somatosphere: Book Review: Klaits' Death in a Church of Life. The wrong side of the world. The news from this side. Who's writing this, anyway? View my complete profile.
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five and a half notebooks: January 2009
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Five and a half notebooks. Watch as I condense more than two years of rich, varied and somewhat incoherent lived experience into a 300-page dissertation while grappling with all the attendant adventures of post-field graduate school. And so it begins. I don't have TB, by the way. I do have a problem child. I have that kid. The theory goes that every class has one - and, if the instructor is lucky, no more than one. I've dealt with that kid. Figuring out how to respond to that kid. I think many of us can ...
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five and a half notebooks: Baby's first job application
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Five and a half notebooks. Watch as I condense more than two years of rich, varied and somewhat incoherent lived experience into a 300-page dissertation while grappling with all the attendant adventures of post-field graduate school. Baby's first job application. Applause, please. (And I never realized until now how close the word applause. Is to the word applesauce. The wrong side of the world. The news from this side. Babys first job application. Who's writing this, anyway? View my complete profile.
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five and a half notebooks: February 2009
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Five and a half notebooks. Watch as I condense more than two years of rich, varied and somewhat incoherent lived experience into a 300-page dissertation while grappling with all the attendant adventures of post-field graduate school. What success feels like. I've been teaching Foucault's Discipline and Punish. Today a student walked into class and said to me, "After reading this, I feel like I've been living a lie.". I know a surprising (alarming? Foucault looked up with elation,. What Marx almost got,.
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five and a half notebooks: March 2009
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Five and a half notebooks. Watch as I condense more than two years of rich, varied and somewhat incoherent lived experience into a 300-page dissertation while grappling with all the attendant adventures of post-field graduate school. Look, ma, i'm famous. I swear to god I did not pay anyone to do this. The strange condition of my labor. I haven't needed to be on campus much, and I find myself slipping further into some old habits from the field. When I wasn't at one hospital or another or one meeting...
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five and a half notebooks: February 2010
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Five and a half notebooks. Watch as I condense more than two years of rich, varied and somewhat incoherent lived experience into a 300-page dissertation while grappling with all the attendant adventures of post-field graduate school. It is frustrating to see one's former cohort-mates in print. It's frustrating to see a c.v. It sucks when you feel bad for feeling bad. The wrong side of the world. The news from this side. Who's writing this, anyway? View my complete profile.
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five and a half notebooks: May 2009
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Five and a half notebooks. Watch as I condense more than two years of rich, varied and somewhat incoherent lived experience into a 300-page dissertation while grappling with all the attendant adventures of post-field graduate school. Walter Benjamin, from One-Way Street. A note from the field:. The bulk of fieldwork. I do not like. Making contacts. I do not like. T]here was a time toward the beginning of our stay that I went absolutely berserk. I mean crazy! Family compound], walked out of sight, and sat...
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five and a half notebooks: April 2011
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Five and a half notebooks. Watch as I condense more than two years of rich, varied and somewhat incoherent lived experience into a 300-page dissertation while grappling with all the attendant adventures of post-field graduate school. Current favorite bit of adviser marginalia: "Does this strike you as bizarre? Yes, and I've been trying to tell you how for years! Frustrating and comforting, all at once. Baby's 34th job application. Here's how it stands: I may or may not defend in mid-May.
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five and a half notebooks: today's epiphany
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Five and a half notebooks. Watch as I condense more than two years of rich, varied and somewhat incoherent lived experience into a 300-page dissertation while grappling with all the attendant adventures of post-field graduate school. I've finally figured it out. OK, maybe that's overstating the case, but I think I have isolated one of the reasons I've been in the dumps for what feels like weeks. Here's my theory:. The half-drafted dissertation is like a half-assembled set of bunkbeds from IKEA.
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five and a half notebooks: the countdown begins
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Five and a half notebooks. Watch as I condense more than two years of rich, varied and somewhat incoherent lived experience into a 300-page dissertation while grappling with all the attendant adventures of post-field graduate school. After some fits and starts and shuffling about, we're on:. Defense date: April 4, 2011. In 1581, Francis Drake. Twenty years later, Evan Mecham. Was convicted in his impeachment. Rebels signed a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War. I think I can handle that.
