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If you are using Mozilla Foxfire to view my blog, you will see that I now have a snazzy new countdown clock in the sidebar, counting down the days to my defence (thanks to Kalev, my genius friend who did that for me!). If you are using Internet Explorer to view my blog, you will […] →Read more
I just checked the “Schedule of Upcoming Doctoral Examinations” on the Faculty of Graduate Studies website and apparently on the same day that I’m defending my thesis, at the same time and in the same room, someone named Beth Simpson is defending her Ph.D. in Anthropology & Sociology on Environment, Economics, and Consumption: Conflicting Cultural […] →Read more
Received confirmation today! Dear Beth, Your Final Doctoral Oral Examination has been scheduled to take place on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 9:00am in Room 200 of the Graduate Student Centre. Hooray! But also, “Oh my god!” BTW, you are all invited! →Read more
Note: I just realized that while I started writing this last week, I never actually posted it. So I’m posting it now! This term, in addition to the online 2nd year Nutrition course that I teach, I’m TAing for a 3rd year Food Microbiology course. The course uses Problem-Based Learning (rather than lectures), in which […] →Read more
Went to a reading by Chuck Palahniuk* and Douglas Coupland last night. It’s only the second literary reading I’ve ever been to (went to one by Salmon Rushdie a couple of years ago). Palahniuk was actually quite pleased that about half the audience said that they had never been to a literary reading before, as […] →Read more
I’ve made my thesis into a .pdf file in case anyone is interested in reading it. I didn’t want to just put up a link to it for the whole world to read because it contains a manuscript for an article that I have not yet submitted (I’m working on it!) and I know everyone […] →Read more
Is it just me, or is this door really funny? This is the door of the building next to the building where I work and whenever I walk by it and see that the “Rear Entrance” is “Accessible”, I burst out laughing. But I may just have a really dirty mind. →Read more
The final draft of my thesis has been submitted to Grad Studies! On the Doctoral Exam Checklist, I have now completed the first four items (although that’s kind of cheating, ‘cuz items 2 & 3 are kinda the same thing — #2 is “submit two copies of your thesis” and #3 “submit the memo saying […] →Read more
You know what is more fun that doing a bunch of finicky revisions of thesis formatting? Doing anything other than thesis formatting revisions. →Read more
I just received word back from one of my committee members that she finished reading my thesis. And she liked it! Just has minors changes to make, nothing substantive. Yay me! Which means I now have feedback from 3 of the 5 and, so far, only small revisions needed. I’ve asked everyone to get their […] →Read more