little sinkings in the earth

My thesis has been officially approved! They like me, they really like me…and I’m graduating with honors! Woo!

Paper-on-the-Train Plan

1. Snag seat by the window (check!)
2. Write intro to paper by 9:05 am
3. Paragraph on Ovid’s Art of Love by 9:30 am
4. Paragraph on Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe by 10 am
5. Comparing/contrasting paragraph by 10:30 am
6. Conclusion by 11 am
7. Reread and edit by 11:15 am
8. Arrive in Portland having completed my Very Last piece of coursework at 11:30 am!!!
 

Alternative: finish entire process by 10:30. Read/listen to music for remainder of trip. YES

Thank you, Jenny and Cory! And Jenny: here is the title page (sans identifying info for tumblrsafety…)

portraity things of my last two classes: Gender & Sexuality in Antiquity and Contact Improvisation.

My friend & fellow discussion leader Autumn, a student’s life-size Barbie doll project, and me.

P.S.

This is my LAST WEEK OF COLLEGE

30 pages! Next: print! Run. Yoga. Shower. Dinner. Skype. Gender & Sexuality in Antiquity. Bed early. Rest of the week: final edits. EEEEEEEEE

(via to-motivate-you)

thesis: 28 pages
still to add: whiteness paragraph, more sources for YA Lit in academia/news, methodology paragraph, de Beauvoir paragraph, YA Lit as a field paragraph, complete Looking for Alaska reading, and the conclusion-conclusion.
+ small edits

(Source: dis0r13nted)

rejected thesis titles

I am browsing through Paper Towns for phrases that pop out and offer themselves to me as catchy titles. I am also tired. Thus I have considered both

I Wish My Cheeks Had Penises: The Manic Pixie Dream Girl in John Green’s Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns

&

World’s Largest Collection of Black Santas: etc etc.