That meme, and Consuela
Apr. 27th, 2004 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetI'd invite you all to share an entirely imaginary memory of me, as per that meme goin' round with all the cool kids, except then you might expect me to reciprocate and then if I didn't or if I wrote you a lame one you'd be all "this sucks" and I'd be all "like, sorry!" and stuff.
So do one if you want, but no promises.
In other news, the advisor has suggested ("heretically") that I keep writing "the chapter" at the projected out-of-control length, cut it into a couple chapters, finish the thematically related chapter that currently exists as an already-written conference paper, write an intro. and conclusion, and ditch half of my proposed dissertation, finishing a draft before I leave in October, fine-tuning it while in France, and then coming back to defend in the spring. Then instead of "all women in all of Tacitus" it would focus mostly on Agrippina the Elder and Agrippina the Younger as sort of Tacitean "everywomen." I could run with that, but part of what made the diss. seem worthwhile was the comprehensiveness, so far not done satisfactorily. On the other hand, the two "ditched" chapters would require complete mastery of all representations of women in Greek and Latin literature up to the end of the first century AD in order for me to do them justice, so maybe he has a point.
We shall see.
So do one if you want, but no promises.
In other news, the advisor has suggested ("heretically") that I keep writing "the chapter" at the projected out-of-control length, cut it into a couple chapters, finish the thematically related chapter that currently exists as an already-written conference paper, write an intro. and conclusion, and ditch half of my proposed dissertation, finishing a draft before I leave in October, fine-tuning it while in France, and then coming back to defend in the spring. Then instead of "all women in all of Tacitus" it would focus mostly on Agrippina the Elder and Agrippina the Younger as sort of Tacitean "everywomen." I could run with that, but part of what made the diss. seem worthwhile was the comprehensiveness, so far not done satisfactorily. On the other hand, the two "ditched" chapters would require complete mastery of all representations of women in Greek and Latin literature up to the end of the first century AD in order for me to do them justice, so maybe he has a point.
We shall see.
