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Sep 13, 2018 19 tweets 4 min read Read on X
#AmDissertating Please send dumplings
A'ight. Only 1,425 words today, but if I do that every day for a month straight I'll be done, right? RIGHT??
#AmDissertating (and a bit under the weather) Please send chicken soup.
Done for the night.
+1,701 words

(Sorry if you DGAF about my diss progress. I need to do this to keep myself going—and accountable.)
OK. #AmDissertating, finally. Please send pistachio pudding.
Have written "Metal Health Act" thrice today. 🤘

You'd think I'd have set up a phrase-expansion shortcut for "Mental Health Act" by now…

#AmDissertating
Pig break! #AmNotCurrentlyDissertating
I failed to persuade anyone to send me pistachio pudding. So…
making pistachio pudding Cartoon of grad student wearing T-shirt that says
"Chill for at least 4 hours." Ha! #FuckThat
+1,070 words today, and most of those were cut & pasted from my interview transcripts. But I got my chores out of the way and have a pile of leftovers ready (including pistachio pudding), so I'll have no excuse not to do better tomorrow.

G'night!
eating pistachio pudding Cartoon of grad student wearing T-shirt that says
Tried this recipe: realsimple.com/food-recipes/b…

I recommend cutting the sugar & cornstarch a bit. I'd used 3/4 of the sugar in the recipe, but I still find the pudding a smidge too sweet. Not bad, though! And it drives home how commercial "pistachio" products totally ≠ pistachio.
OK, OK. #AmDissertating.
+1,978 words

Am brainspent. More tomorrow.
#AmDissertating. Stomach unsettled and still a bit under the weather. Send ginger beer.
+1.952 words

Didn't do any heavy lifting today, but copied & pasted from my comps paper and proposal. Call it cheating, if you want! 😉

The rest of the week is pretty much a write-off. Wait, no. That almost makes it sound like I'll write a lot. No more writing till Friday aft.
That... should be a comma. I should hope I added more than two words to the manuscript.
+0 words today. #DidNotDissertate

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When I'm done dissertating I think I'll relaunch my editing business to focus exclusively on fixing indecipherable flowcharts, concept maps, and system charts. Zoidberg meme with caption
I imagine "fixing" would mean "getting rid of" about 90% of the time.
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*A thread about frequently asked questions that only my fellow language nerds are likely to care about*

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I had to read on to confirm they meant [frequently asked questions] for (an audience of) anglers rather than questions that anglers are frequently asked.

I think it's interesting how this bit of ambiguity shows how we conceptualize "frequently asked questions" as a whole entity.
And, I mean, frequently asked questions aren't usually *actually* frequently asked questions, right? Most of the time they're questions that you anticipate your audience will have…
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Aug 15, 2018
Helllllllp—I fell down an etymological rabbit hole after wondering whether the diminutive "-kin" suffix on "pumpkin" meant there was a larger squash known as a "pump." @mashedradish ivacheung.com/2016/01/fact-c…
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Aug 15, 2018
Who else will be at the #YVR community dialogue session on national pharmacare tonight? 🙋🏻
Two years ago I attended the public consultation for federal disability legislation. Even though it took a long-ass time for the Accessible Canada Act to be proposed afterward, the consultation itself was one of the most memorable and edifying events I've ever attended.
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Aug 10, 2018
"design of complaint mechanisms" → "design of compliant mechanisms" #AmEditing
"expense clam" → "expense claim" #AmEditing
SURELY a peer reviewer should have noticed that the authors used *k* to represent both curvature and turbulent flow? And *t* to represent both time and thickness?

No? Neither peer reviewer picked up on that, huh? #AmEditing
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