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oyceterMet with my advisor today. Apparently the thesis doesn't suck (this is good). However, it is a problem because basically, I think it's got a lot of good ideas in absolutely no coherent order at all. But this is ok. This is fixable. I also didn't get yelled at for not finished my third body chapter on time (I should have handed it in today). But this is good too, because this means I have more time to coherently outline and organize my thoughts, which is one of my weak points. I also found out that Brad is still working on his first chapter, so I feel much better.
Talked to professors about comps. Just my luck that this year my department decides to start seriously doing comps instead of asking a few questions about them during thesis defense. I talked to two of the three professors who are giving me comps, and apparently, they know less about them than I do. I don't know if this is good or bad.
My head hurts a lot because I spend too much time online.
I've burned all of Buffy season one and almost all of season two onto CD-R, and I'm now working on season 4. This by no means indicates that I won't buy the DVDs when they come out (still saving up for seasons 1 and 2), but I still like having them on my computer. However, my little laptop for some reason doesn't have enough space for me to keep all seven seasons of Buffy and all four of Angel on it, so I've decided to download all of them and burn them on disk in anticipation of the day I can get something ridiculously large, like 200 GB. MMMmmmm... hard drive space.
Also bidding on the original 1995 edition of the Vertigo tarot on ebay. I won the reprint a few months ago, and I decided I love the deck to pieces. I'd love to make it my regular reading deck, because I feel as though I can really GET the cards, as opposed to my Gendron deck (way too cute and fuzzy), my Osho Zen tarot (love it very very much, but it's a bit untraditional for normal readings of other people), and my Rider-Waite (standard readings, which is good, but no real resonance with me). The Vertigo deck is simply gorgeous in a creepy, Dave McKean style, rich in symbolism, takes off in interesting ways from the RWS, and have I mentioned I love it to pieces? So I'd like two decks, one for normal reading and one simply to ogle over. Plus, the reprint deck is very nice, but the cards are smaller, so the images are less clear, and the card stock is definitely flimsy. And I go through this entire rationale to justify spending probably up to 40 dollars for another deck when I've already got four. Sarah unleashed a demon when she got me into tarot =(.
Talked to professors about comps. Just my luck that this year my department decides to start seriously doing comps instead of asking a few questions about them during thesis defense. I talked to two of the three professors who are giving me comps, and apparently, they know less about them than I do. I don't know if this is good or bad.
My head hurts a lot because I spend too much time online.
I've burned all of Buffy season one and almost all of season two onto CD-R, and I'm now working on season 4. This by no means indicates that I won't buy the DVDs when they come out (still saving up for seasons 1 and 2), but I still like having them on my computer. However, my little laptop for some reason doesn't have enough space for me to keep all seven seasons of Buffy and all four of Angel on it, so I've decided to download all of them and burn them on disk in anticipation of the day I can get something ridiculously large, like 200 GB. MMMmmmm... hard drive space.
Also bidding on the original 1995 edition of the Vertigo tarot on ebay. I won the reprint a few months ago, and I decided I love the deck to pieces. I'd love to make it my regular reading deck, because I feel as though I can really GET the cards, as opposed to my Gendron deck (way too cute and fuzzy), my Osho Zen tarot (love it very very much, but it's a bit untraditional for normal readings of other people), and my Rider-Waite (standard readings, which is good, but no real resonance with me). The Vertigo deck is simply gorgeous in a creepy, Dave McKean style, rich in symbolism, takes off in interesting ways from the RWS, and have I mentioned I love it to pieces? So I'd like two decks, one for normal reading and one simply to ogle over. Plus, the reprint deck is very nice, but the cards are smaller, so the images are less clear, and the card stock is definitely flimsy. And I go through this entire rationale to justify spending probably up to 40 dollars for another deck when I've already got four. Sarah unleashed a demon when she got me into tarot =(.
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