agonistes: a house in the shadow of two silos shaped like gramophone bells (MY ACADEMIC CAREER BITCHES)

[personal profile] agonistes 2007-12-06 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
All good senior theses/dissertations struggle with this desire. *blows spitballs at Harold Bloom*

[identity profile] mad-megan.livejournal.com 2007-12-06 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahaha!!!!!

[identity profile] kessie.livejournal.com 2007-12-06 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
If I could, I would stake all the vampire academics in the world. Aside from my supervisor, of course.

Screw this, I'm moving over to fairy tales.

[identity profile] iwouldstay.livejournal.com 2007-12-06 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes. In writing my thesis I also suffered from one person of such description that I had to discuss.
genarti: Knees-down view of woman on tiptoe next to bookshelves (ink on the page)

[personal profile] genarti 2007-12-06 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
*snickers* *lots*

And this is why well-done and diplomatic academic snark, in which precisely that is said with decorous politeness, is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

...This too is a beautiful thing, mind you, even if it's one that must tragically be lost in editing.

[identity profile] allhisengines.livejournal.com 2007-12-06 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
oh YES