22 November 2002
Why Having a Baby is Easier than Writing A Dissertation
Indeed, I've been a bit stressed, but I'm baking oatmeal-date-almond cookies right now, which should be the solution. I can't wait to go home for Thanksgiving, either.
Decent day - teaching went well. Yesterday teaching was a nightmare. Two sophomores chatting away as if they were in highschool. Yack yack yack. Shut the *fuck* up. really. How rude. I didn't say *that*, of course, but I did tell tem that their behaviour was unacceptable for college students.
Ah well.
In any case, the cookies should help. And this did, too, a very humour simile between dissertations and having babies! Thanks you, Michelle!
WHY WRITING A DISSERTATION IS HARDER THAN HAVING A BABY
1. Three months before your due date, your doctor doesn't say, "I want you
to go back and re-do the first trimester's work."
2. Unlike advisors, you can switch doctors without starting over.
3. Conceiving a baby is WAY more fun than conceiving a topic.
4. You know exactly how long pregnancy takes.
5. Friends and relatives don't question the worth of a baby.
6. You don't need to explain repeatedly to friends and family what it
takes to make a baby and why you're not through yet.
7. No one will make you get an advanced degree before having a baby.
8. Everyone will say your baby is cute and you'll believe them.
9. Babies don't require proper footnoting or adherence to a style manual.
10. You can freely borrow other people's stuff if you're having a baby;
if you're writing a dissertation, that's called plagiarism.
11. No one will complain that your baby is too similar to another one.
12. No matter how much trouble, some people will gladly have more than one
baby.
dandlioneyes at 3:07 pm