Mt. Privilege: Status Report
It’s just one of these days.
You just put three weeks of work into one footnote then you wonder whether that effort has, perhaps, been a little disproportionate, but you want to do it right and name the proper source.
Well, at least your supervisor (who was last reported to be somewhere in the Mediterranean) has not yet read your new pages (you have no idea whether this will occur before Christmas -2009, that is- anyway) and hasn’t asked you yet to rewrite the page with the precious footnote. For now, this is good. For now, this footnote will keep you company and warm your heart.
And then you find the perfect quote for the next subchapter in an article you had the luck of finding online, but of course the html version has no page numbers. And you need a page number for the quote. Your university library doesn’t have the print edition of the publication in question, nor digital access. And the only digital copy of the article, as you figure out after hours of digging, is residing at an outpost of the University of Saskatchewan – a institution for which your institute has, oddly, missed getting a subscription.
Some days, academic globalism doesn’t work quite the way you want it to. But Saskatchewan sounds like a nice place.
Too bad there wasnt’ an online message board where students at universities around the world could/would help each other out by looking up these sources for one another.
sounds actually quite cold: THIS IS CANADA! bbbbbbrrrrrrh
But I know what you´te talking about…lets not count the times I searched for certain papers.
thumps up as always,
xi
Mmmm… think it this way. They are now filming TLW in Vancouver, may be you pay them a visit while going to Saskatchewan and meet dear old warrior princess Xena…
e-mail Saskatchewan and ask the librarian to find the page number for you. It couldn’t hurt to ask. Catherine in California
@Catherine: you are right – not all librarians might yell at you telling you that it is not their job to find you page numbers.
(Although they would be right, it isn’t their job…)
Hi Anik, may I ask which is the subject of your Ph.D.?
@Artemia: I am so superstitious that I am not writing it down anywhere until I have handed it in, but as a general topic, I work on Gender/Performativity/Anthropology. I always say “Early Assyrian Pottery” when anyone asks.
LOL!
Early Assyrian Pottery… I like it
You will do it, no doubt.
I remember when I was doing my degree project I though I would never finish and, et voilà!
Any mean to write you an email?
@Artemia: thanks for the vote of confidence! – my email is listed with most of my stories on my writing website, I think – aniklachev@web.de