Pre-pesach insanity
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theyellowhobbitI finished my prospectus. Ben e-mailed me at 10am with the helpful information that would have been more helpful last night. The half a prospectus I had before was trashed for a new, more accurate prospectus. 1 page in length, though some of that is footnotes.
Then last night I wrote the 500 (565) word essay for Anth 001. I saw Christa in the lab and I was printing this out, and said "Can I just hand this to you now and then run--"
"out of class?"
"No, I was going to say run to heat up my breakfast."
"Oh. Sure."
Triple-wrapped pizza. The story of my life.
Then we decided to have recitation outside, and I put my museum specialness in action and opened up the porch for everyone. Yay!
After Hellerstein's class, I talked to her about my majory major:
Me: I was thinking about the two theses, and I talked to Ben yesterday, and I figured that it would be a better option for me to just drop Jewish studies into a minor and do 1 thesis, since writing 2 is insane, and there's not much difference between me having a major or a minor in Jewish studies if I'm going into archaeology.
Her: No! You don't want to do that!...Can we have this conversation when we're not in an elevator on one foot?**
Me: Sure. If you can think of a convincing reason as to why I should write the 2nd thesis, I'm open to hearing it.I still don't have an advisor yet. And Tigay does earlier stuff [ancient times]. I'm looking at Hellenistic and Roman times.
Her: What about David Stern*** or Barry Eichler? And I'm sure Tigay would still know about that time period.
Me: I've had a class with David before, but I don't know Eichler or Tigay. And it would be weird to be like "Hey, you don't know me, but could you be my thesis advisor?"
Her: It's not unheard of to have an advisor who has never been your teacher. But I can help you contact Tigay or Eichler if you'd like...
And it went on from there. But it felt like I was bargaining with her for a less evil thesis. Hopefully I can copy and paste a lot. And by the end of this semester I'll have at least 10 pages of my archaeology one written. but really it's not a page number thing so much as a sufficiently covering the topic thing.
Then I finished the stuff to send to Dor and Safi, and went to the bank to cash a check, since I had lost my ATM card and had been frantically looking since Thursday.
When I was at the bank I found it. It was in my wallet, behind everything else.
*You have to say it in an Israeli accent for the full effect
**"On another occasion it happened that a certain heathen came before Shammai and said to him, 'Make me a proselyte, on condition that you teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot.' Thereupon he repulsed him with the builder's cubit which was in his hand. When he went before Hillel, he said to him, 'What is hateful to you, do not to your neighbour: that is the whole Torah, while the rest is the commentary thereof; go and learn it.'"[Shabbat 31a]
emphasis added
***Her husband, who she never refers to as her husband, but always as "David Stern."
Then last night I wrote the 500 (565) word essay for Anth 001. I saw Christa in the lab and I was printing this out, and said "Can I just hand this to you now and then run--"
"out of class?"
"No, I was going to say run to heat up my breakfast."
"Oh. Sure."
Triple-wrapped pizza. The story of my life.
Then we decided to have recitation outside, and I put my museum specialness in action and opened up the porch for everyone. Yay!
After Hellerstein's class, I talked to her about my majory major:
Me: I was thinking about the two theses, and I talked to Ben yesterday, and I figured that it would be a better option for me to just drop Jewish studies into a minor and do 1 thesis, since writing 2 is insane, and there's not much difference between me having a major or a minor in Jewish studies if I'm going into archaeology.
Her: No! You don't want to do that!...Can we have this conversation when we're not in an elevator on one foot?**
Me: Sure. If you can think of a convincing reason as to why I should write the 2nd thesis, I'm open to hearing it.I still don't have an advisor yet. And Tigay does earlier stuff [ancient times]. I'm looking at Hellenistic and Roman times.
Her: What about David Stern*** or Barry Eichler? And I'm sure Tigay would still know about that time period.
Me: I've had a class with David before, but I don't know Eichler or Tigay. And it would be weird to be like "Hey, you don't know me, but could you be my thesis advisor?"
Her: It's not unheard of to have an advisor who has never been your teacher. But I can help you contact Tigay or Eichler if you'd like...
And it went on from there. But it felt like I was bargaining with her for a less evil thesis. Hopefully I can copy and paste a lot. And by the end of this semester I'll have at least 10 pages of my archaeology one written. but really it's not a page number thing so much as a sufficiently covering the topic thing.
Then I finished the stuff to send to Dor and Safi, and went to the bank to cash a check, since I had lost my ATM card and had been frantically looking since Thursday.
When I was at the bank I found it. It was in my wallet, behind everything else.
*You have to say it in an Israeli accent for the full effect
**"On another occasion it happened that a certain heathen came before Shammai and said to him, 'Make me a proselyte, on condition that you teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot.' Thereupon he repulsed him with the builder's cubit which was in his hand. When he went before Hillel, he said to him, 'What is hateful to you, do not to your neighbour: that is the whole Torah, while the rest is the commentary thereof; go and learn it.'"[Shabbat 31a]
emphasis added
***Her husband, who she never refers to as her husband, but always as "David Stern."
