La Lecturess

La Lecturess
(But our beginnings never know our ends!)
Contributors La Lecturess Flavia Email: lecturess[AT]gmail[DOT]com Recent Posts Remedial comp, redux Found item Hooray! (I think?) Odds & ends Wait, I've heard this one. Something about a beam,... Seven things meme There oughta be a (natural) law Ugh, Monday Score! Sensus fidelium Things I Read and/or People I Like The New York Times Arts & Letters Daily The Chronicle of Higher Education Commonweal Crooked Timber Inside Higher Ed The Revealer Andrew Sullivan Talking Points Memo Wonkette ABD Anonymous ABD Mom Academic Coach Acephalous Advice at Your Own Risk Anbruch Ancrene Wiseass Another Damned Medievalist Badgerings Bardiac Between an Oxymoron and a Redundancy Blogging the Renaissance Bitch. Ph.D. Cheeky Prof. Clashing Hats Confessions of a Community College Dean Dr. Virago (Quod She) Early Modern Notes Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog G-Fav's Meanderings H.K. in Seoul A Ianqui in Greenwich Village In Favor of Thinking Ink and Incapability It's Probably Me Kermit's Log Kinesthesis Breakthrough Manolo's Shoe Blog Margo, Darling Medieval Woman Michael Berube My So-Called (ABD) Life Negative Capability New Kid on the Hallway On Any Given Day One Bright Star Reignited Oronte Churm Pretty Hard, Dammit Phantom Scribbler Pilgrim/Heretic Playing School, Irreverently Polyopia Professorial Confessions Professor Me Raining Cats & Dogma Reassigned Time Scrivenings Sfragett's City Slaves of Academe Thanks for not Being a Zombie Terminal Degree The Theater Absurd Timna Tired of Ted Tomato Nation Verbosity Defined What Now? Will's Coffee House Writing as Jo(e) Xoom Late Spring To-Do List ~~Read scholarly book #1~~ Read scholarly book #2 ~~Catch up on professional journals~~ ~~Administer evaluations~~ ~~Grade seminar research papers~~ ~~Write two final exams~~ ~~Grade final exams~~ ~~Compute final grades~~ ~~Order books for fall~~ Find apartment in New City ~~Attend INRU Commencement!~~	Thursday, September 29, 2005 Grand total: $270.30 Paper and toner for one copy of dissertation: approx. $2.00 Three velo-bound readers' copies, courtesy of Kinko's: $68.80 RT train fare to Grad School City: $28.00 Bus to campus (hey, it was raining!): $1.50 Grad School diss binding fee: $20.00 UMI copyright registration fee: $45.00 Pre-ordering three bound copies through UMI: $105.00 Being done? Priceless (And, yes: that whole "priceless" shtick would be much more convincing to me and everyone else if I did not now have more than $50K in student loans and credit card debt in the high four figures.) link \| posted by La Lecturess at 7:25 PM \| 7 Comments: jo(e) commented at 8:16 PM~ Even with the debt, it must be a good feeling. Congrats! G-Fav commented at 8:25 PM~ Congratulations! Congratulations! Hoo-ray! BrightStar (B*) commented at 9:17 PM~ YAY!!!!! This is too cool. :) phd me commented at 9:31 PM~ Congrats to you! The joy of accomplishment is worth every penny. What Now? commented at 11:19 PM~ I know there's still the reading by the department members to get through, but you've done your part, and now it's all over but the waiting, with what sounds like a foregone conclusion at the end of it. Must feel so good! RLB commented at 11:35 PM~ Sweeeeeeeeeet! Well done! (cue "4-bar" here) :-D Anonymous commented at 7:58 AM~ Hooray! Good work, Lecturess. -j-fav. Want to Post a Comment? back to main page
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