docoflove1974

No thanks...not even my student loans are at 5%! I'll take some off of Pantagathus...might help me to recall some historical facts...dunno if it'll help, but one never knows.

4 May 2007. That's the defense date. From now until the end of March, I'll be using any time I have that's not spent in the classroom or on the retail floor probably in the library, working furiously to finish my dissertation in full. The pre-defense went well--many comments, mostly that I need to focus more on my topic (I'm too talkative and vague...go figure lol), but my committee gave me very specific details as to how to hone this. But, overall, they liked what I had written so far...and that's the best news of all. So, from now until 30 March, I'll be busy busy busy, reading, analyzing and writing, and will get this whole thing done. There is a light--it's real, not a mirage--and it's at the end of the tunnel. I'm almost there. And if you can spare an extra brain cell or two for me, I would be very appreciative; I'll be burning my furiously. You will be rewarded with my eternal grattitude.

That's what I was thinking of! Thanks for the link, Pantagathus...now I can refresh my memory.

Bull puckie* I really want the :sh1t: icon here, but the stupid censor won't let me...bastiges.

Mine's actually more basic...and nothing to do with any historical (or otherwise) figure. docoflove1974: doc: PhD (edit: just finished, Aug 07!) of: connector, functional word to ease the intelligibility of the phrase love: Romance languages (my specialty) 1974: the year of my birth

BZZZZZZZT! Jack Daniels is not whiskey, despite what the label says. It's sour mash...a 'lower grade' bourbon whiskey...and, IMO, utter crap. Jack Daniels is to bourbon whiskey as Jose Cuervo is to tequila...undrinkable. While I'm mentioning bourbon, I do wish to include Knob Creek and Maker's Mark as two outstanding American bourbon cousins to the whiskey family.

This is the first night that I've missed...and it was on one that I really wanted to see! Hopefully they'll repeat it soon enough.

Jeez...it's only like $150/bottle... I'm partial to Oban, when I get the funds.

Yeah, that'll do it. My university let's you teach for 14 semesters, which pays for your out-of-state tuition as well as provide benefits. That's about it, unless you receive a grant. But if you choose to be ABD away from campus, then there's not much pushing you from within!

Meh...as AD pointed out, the process gets very frustrating on our end. No matter how good your professors are, and how much they guide you--and, trust me, mine did--no one really tells you how to go about a dissertation topic, how to write a proposal, what some of the easier routes are to get to your topic and data, how to lay out the dissertation. These are all things one has to do themselves...and if you don't know what questions to ask, you end up taking longer than you probably should. Don't get me wrong, I am excited about my topic and my writing, and I have a type-written list of 3 pages of various future research topics; but after 3 years of finding out what data I could find, finding data, analyzing data, and re-writing my chapters over and over again, I'm not just burnt, but charred. What makes matters more tiring is trying to find a full-time, tenure-track teaching position at the same time as all the editing mess...and not finding much out there. It's a lot of stress, but in the end, that fancy title will be worth it! The process here in the States is usually: 1) 2-3 years of coursework--depends on what your Masters is in, where you did it, etc.; 2) PhD Comprehensive exams--just to prove that you know what you know, and that you should go onto a dissertation; 3) Candidacy, which starts once you put in your dissertation proposal. "In theory," you should take 2-4 years for researching, writing, and defending your dissertation. Reality is that, if you do not have a dissertation advisor (or, in some cases 2 advisors) who takes interest in you, and keeps asking about your work, it could drag on for YEARS. I have heard horror stories out of English and History departments where people have taken 10 years total, or more, because their committee never asked about their work, never gave them feedback, and they kept changing their topics. While graduate programs do accept more and more students into the fold, after a certain point most universities lose money on PhD students, and they don't want ABD's (All But Dissertation students) to languish in the system.

Historical Romance nominal morphology...put into English, I study the evolution of gender inflection and agreement from Latin into (early) Romance, combined with language change theories. And my head's about to explode!

Good luck, Aphrodite. I'm in the final editing stages with mine--I meet with my committee next week to get a defense date and to find out how much more I need to do. So I'll either be scarce on here, or I'll be vocal!

Don't mess with history, man...that'll only get you into trouble. As for me: take recording equipment, and accurately document the language of the people! I think AD would have to come with me, to cover more ground...but we could do an accurate linguistic grammar and transcription of how the Romans--as well as the provincials!--actually spoke! Oh man, the possibilities! Or...take it one step further...accurately portray what life was like for various people...what was a plebian's life like, or that of a patrician (although I'm sure our records are pretty accurate on that one), in the countryside and in the great city itself...ooooooooooh I'm drooling at the prospects...

Close, but no cigar. There is a Rhaeto-Romance dialect/language named Ladin, which is spoken in the Italian Alps; more can be found here This should not be confused with the Judeo-Spanish which is spoken by the peoples whose ancestors were booted out of Spain in the late 15th and early 16th century by the Catholic Royals; they call their language Lad

The date when I will defend my dissertation before my committee, God, and country...in that order. A successful dissertation defense will result in my officially being titled "Doctor" or "Professor".

Come 8 November there'll be something to celebrate: a defense date!

Yewwwwwwwwwwwww...and you prolly wear it in the traditional commando fashion *shudddddddder*

Sadly, no, as I need to be at training tomorrow at 9am. *pout* But tomorrow...the fruit of the vine will be flowing...

...cuz I'll be working with the coooooooooool people...IN NORDIES!!! Yep, you saw that right...I'm the newest member of the sales team at the local Nordstrom's. Women's active wear. Lots of workout gear, lounge suits, and general clothing for women who wish to look posh as they perspire/glow. I see commission checks rolling in! But first: 3 full days of training...but, hey, that's why they're good...the sales staff are well trained!

Happy birthday, dude! Sounds like hot toddy weather to me!

Yeah, it confused me, too...now if I could just get students who automatically come programed with such tools :/

Ok...what size are you, and are you a boxers or briefs guy? Please don't say you wear Jockeys...

You don't, really. Drug rehab, followed by mental institution, most likely.

Viggen: what do the names mean on the Luna, Purezza and Rossa? I'm guessing the Purezza means 'honey brew'...but other than that, my Deutch is, um, nonexistant. Virgil: Hot damn, you just posted 2 of my absolute favorites.