Today’s aesthetic: 19th Century literature where the nominal protagonist doesn’t even show up until you’re 20 000 words in.
You can say Les Misérables
No, I can’t; Valjean doesn’t show up in Les Misérables until thirty thousand words in. Even by the standards of its time, Les Mis is 50% more insufferable than average!
the Thesis Face
Hey, personal question I may have asked before (I know I thought about it but I don’t think I actually did) – where are you at grad school and what do you technically study? I’m applying for grad school to do antarctic/polar stuff at the moment, and having been told that one of the programmes I’d applied for isn’t going to run anymore because they want to do things with more than 9 students, I’m trying to look for alternatives and thought you might be able to help. If not, no worries :)
Ah, sorry, I’m not, officially, studying polar anything (other than my one arctic studies class this quarter- UW Seattle has a tiny undergrad minor on the subject, and I needed an interdisciplinary), it’s really just an academic hobby of mine. My actual degree is a Master’s of Museology (museum studies). Good luck with your grad school search, though!
(I think BU has an Antarctic research program for PhD students? and the university of maine has some arctic program iirc)
I just learned Herring Gulls eat lemmings and I don’t know why this is disturbing to me but……… it is.
arctic studies professor just recommended we read Farley Mowat
god I love this guy.
The Best and Shortest Abstract, answering the stupidest, unneeded question ever.
i feel like a good rule of thumb for historians/historical biographers is that the reader shouldn’t be able to tell which historical figures you want to have sex with
this feels like a really low bar and yet
only the true king could remove the sword from the stone…. no one else could…… they didn’t have…. arthurization
life hack: keep your hand weights on your bedside table, so that when you’re lying in bed reading fanfic on your phone, you can exercise with your free arm and therefore feel like you’re Using Your Time Well
A Pretty Taste for Paradox 