Comments on: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Somewhere or Other http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-somewhere-or-other/ falling indelibly into the past Fri, 16 May 2008 21:12:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Planned Obsolescence » Blog Archive » Beginning, Again http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-somewhere-or-other/#comment-2405 Planned Obsolescence » Blog Archive » Beginning, Again Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:11:19 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=144#comment-2405 [...] Amusingly enough, my very last post of 2005 was about the difficulities of beginning a new large-scale project. That project, which I planned on spending my sabbatical with during spring 2006, got somewhat overcome by events, primarily the take-off of planning for MediaCommons. That project, called Archive, is one I hope to return to at some point, but it’s wound up getting even further back-burnered over the course of the year, as I realized that the conference paper I’d written about blogging was in the process of morphing into an article, and that it was threatening the boundaries of article space as well, turning into a full-length project, whether I wanted it to or not. [...] [...] Amusingly enough, my very last post of 2005 was about the difficulities of beginning a new large-scale project. That project, which I planned on spending my sabbatical with during spring 2006, got somewhat overcome by events, primarily the take-off of planning for MediaCommons. That project, called Archive, is one I hope to return to at some point, but it’s wound up getting even further back-burnered over the course of the year, as I realized that the conference paper I’d written about blogging was in the process of morphing into an article, and that it was threatening the boundaries of article space as well, turning into a full-length project, whether I wanted it to or not. [...]

]]> By: e. fiction http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-somewhere-or-other/#comment-300 e. fiction Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:16:30 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=144#comment-300 <p><i>I hated doing research.  I hated running down sources, reading secondary texts, doing all the stuff that needed doing in order to piece through an argument.</i> </p> <p> I hope one day in the not-too-distant future, I’ll be able to admit such things publicly, too. </p> <p> But I have to add that I’m enjoying a lot about being ABD--not just the work itself, but also the process of professionalization and acculturation.  The revising-and-resubmitting process has been stressful, but there’s something deeply satisfying about getting my stuff out there (or, at least for now, the knowledge that my work will be out there soon). </p> <p> Maybe my tune will have changed quite a bit by the time I’m in Philly in December. </p> I hated doing research.  I hated running down sources, reading secondary texts, doing all the stuff that needed doing in order to piece through an argument.

I hope one day in the not-too-distant future, I’ll be able to admit such things publicly, too.

But I have to add that I’m enjoying a lot about being ABD–not just the work itself, but also the process of professionalization and acculturation.  The revising-and-resubmitting process has been stressful, but there’s something deeply satisfying about getting my stuff out there (or, at least for now, the knowledge that my work will be out there soon).

Maybe my tune will have changed quite a bit by the time I’m in Philly in December.

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