disinclination

[truepenny]

Gnrarrgh.

I don't want to talk about the Vice tradition wrt Richard III. If I'd thought it was at all relevant to my argument, I would have put it in myself. I need a special subliminal formatting tag to say: Not my idea. My committee insisted.

Also? I hate signposting. Hate it. My readers should be telepathic, dammit, and able to figure out what I mean for themselves. (There's an even baser, nastier voice saying, My readers should be able to read what I wrote, not what they believe or want to believe I wrote, but that's not remotely fair, and I know it.)

Hi, I'm Truepenny, and this is my temper tantrum.

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[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Today I understand why animals bite things. I want to snarl. Possibly I am rabid.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Sister!

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Even my Ginger Snaps DVDs, which have just arrived, cannot improve my mood.

Someone should say something very stupid so I can mock them viciously. Why is the Internet failing me?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Isn't that just like the Internet? Going along being stupid as all get out, and then when you really need it, it chokes in the clutch. Typical.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

W is the best president the U.S. has ever had. Gay parents are clearly inferior to the hetero variety. Steve Brust's novels are a ripoff of Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books. Live theatre is a waste of time. Nobody goes to art museums anyway, so we should shut them down. Media conglomerates who run most of the radio stations really have our best interests in mind. Fantasy is dead. Rubber duckies are harmful to children's health.

How's that?

(Several of the above are actually paraphrases of some of my college professors, otherwise I wouldn't have even thought of them. The Brust thing, for example, is beyond my ability to stoop/stupe.)

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Fish in a barrel.

I need that *special* brand of stupidity which is just intricately enough worked-out that it takes effort to pick it apart into tiny little pieces, hold each one up to the light to show off all of its flaws, and then place it on the floor to stomp. I'm even wearing boots today.

Actually, this (http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=pulps&s=zimmerman041304) might do.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

So what you're saying is you need Salon-caliber stupidity. That is a little harder to come by.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Well. I got home and opened my Ginger Snaps DVD cases, and lo and behold, the case for Ginger Snaps 1 is empty.

Stupidity, not so hard to come by.

Grrrrrrrr.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Oh bloody hell.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Re: GS II: rent, don't buy. Emily Perkins is brilliant, but the writing's a sad comedown. More TK.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

Proving, once again, that a Ph.D. is no guarantee that one's IQ will be greater than or equal to one's shoe size.

[libskrat]

US or European shoe sizes?

My IQ occasionally resembles my European shoe size. But then, I've got gee-normous feet.

As for the dis: You NEVER HAVE TO DO THIS AGAIN. Rejoice.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ackcherly, I saw the person who made one of the more absurd of these claims at MiniCon last weekend. Spoke to, no, but saw, yes....

[heresluck]

::pets cautiously::

::proffers cake::

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

*sighs* *looks at cake with despair*

Now I'm going shopping for a dress for a wedding tomorrow. I hate shopping.

[katwrites.livejournal.com]

I hate clothes shopping too. I remain suspicious of anyone who claims to like it. I like fabric shopping and sewing though. Thus, I manage to stay clothed.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Everybody sane hates shopping. It's the human condition. You are not alone.

Last time I went I was horrible to the sales clerk, but she was horrible to me first. I reserve the right to be horrible to anyone trying to sell me a bright blue top to go with a bright orange skirt.

[lisekit.livejournal.com]

Teacher persona says:

There's probably a reason, possibly even a good one, why somebody has reccomended that you look at a particular aspect of this work, and hopefully it's something to do with deepening, or broadening, or clarifying your own existing argument. And although your reader would love to be telpathic, sadly they are not, and you might wish to assist them a little in reading your probably very clever work - probably clever, but we just can't tell.

Petulant Supervisee persona says:
Dammit, doesn't it just *suck* when some idiot supervisor wants to stick their own interpretation or research interests onto your work? I mean, go and write your own paper if that's what you want to say! Let me pursue my interests, in my work, and sod off with your one-track, one-size-fits-all research methodology. I hate you.

Non-persona-self-observing-self says:
Ironic, isn't it. I'm always foisting my own researcg interests (sorry, nake that interest) on my poor hapless supervisees. I still hate it happening to me....

Hey, I bet all that outpouring really helped you, didn't it?
Hopefully, your supervisor's comments were aimed at your work in a sympathetic sort of way, not a manipulate-this-work-into-my-own-graven-image kind of way. I know I always *intend* my suggestions that way when I supervise. But as we know, the intention of the supervisor is neither available nor desirable as a criterion for judgement of supervisorly success.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

There was nothing actually unreasonable about the requests my committee was making--especially the signposting, because, yeah, it is polite to tell people what it is you're trying to say. I was just having a snit.