Case (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
case) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandomsecrets2012-08-27 06:16 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-08-27 06:16 pm
[ SECRET POST #2064 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2064 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
01.
__________________________________________________
02.
__________________________________________________
03.
__________________________________________________
04.
__________________________________________________
05.
__________________________________________________
06.
__________________________________________________
07.
__________________________________________________
08.
__________________________________________________
09.
__________________________________________________
10.
__________________________________________________
11.
__________________________________________________
12.
__________________________________________________
13.
__________________________________________________
14.
__________________________________________________
15.
__________________________________________________
16.
__________________________________________________
17.
__________________________________________________
18.
__________________________________________________
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 075 secrets from Secret Submission Post #295.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: Other graduate students out here
I was scheduled to finish this summer but then my husband was hospitalized twice, and it was very scary, and after he wasn't dying anymore, I just sat around and ate myself into a stupor and watched TV instead of working on my diss.
:(
But! I know you can do it, and I can too. *hugs*
Re: Other graduate students out here
(Actually eating a lot of cheesecake is how I got through with my last semester)
And YOU can do it! Jump up on that horse! And then beat it to death - because that is your job when you are writing this shit,
Re: Other graduate students out here
What is your topic?
Re: Other graduate students out here
My topic is this Milwaukee, Wisconsin city and park planner and Socialist named Charles B. Whitnall, who worked from about 1900-1940. So it's both a biography (which no one has done) and a discussion of the changes he made to the layout of the city. I mean, if you want more I could go on and on about him how he started the first floral telegraph delivery service and other stuff too. But it's probably super boring to everyone but me and one other person.
What's your dissertation on?
Re: Other graduate students out here
What a very cool topic; I don't find it boring at all. Are you from that area? Is that what piqued your interest in his work?
My topic is on a Victorian writer named Ouida (pictured in the icon). I'm looking at social anxieties of the time period as represented in her work.
Re: Other graduate students out here
And thank you. My friends are so sick of hearing about it, and most of them have no interest, so when I talk about their eyes glaze over.
I am from the area - I grew up in the Milwaukee area, and I was researching a Greenbelt town from the 1930s for a project, I stumbled on another project in the Milwaukee area which led me to Whitnall who was part of it. He's actually a pretty big mover and shaker in Milwaukee and people have done little research on him, so here I am. His son, Gordon, was actually a pretty important planner in the LA area around the same time.
That sounds super interesting! The Victorian era is such a fascinating time for me - all the social stuff, but drugs and doctors giving their patients orgasms was also bopping around. Is it an English dissertation? Or a history one?
Re: Other graduate students out here
:)