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On this day in 1907, an earthquake rocked the island of Jamaica, killing nearly 1,000 people. I am, by reputation at least, a historian of disasters. And I hadn’t heard of this catastrophe until tonight. Could somebody please get to work? Seriously, I’d like chapters on my desk by the end of winter quarter.
8 comments
January 14, 2008 at 6:21 am
silbey
It’s an ongoing problem. You come across a subject you just KNOW would make a great dissertation/book/whatever. And so it either goes on a list (way down at the end behind all the other great projects), or you start hectoring grad students.
For me, it’s always the first, as I don’t actually have grad students.
January 14, 2008 at 8:28 am
silbey
By the way, what exactly is a “disseration”?
January 14, 2008 at 8:46 am
ari
Go back to fighting with the Paul people. Also: fixed.
January 14, 2008 at 9:05 am
bitchphd
Silbey, you don’t have to *have* graduate students to hector them. Graduate students are conditioned to expect hectoring from everyone. Why miss out on the fun?
January 14, 2008 at 9:20 am
ari
That’s a good point. If you’d like to e-mail some of my students, I’d be happy to pass along their addresses. Actually, I’ve got cell numbers. Perhaps you could call at random hours of the day and night and ask why they’re not working harder.
January 14, 2008 at 9:47 am
silbey
“Silbey, you don’t have to *have* graduate students to hector them”
Light dawns. Oh. My. God. You’re so right. Excuse me, Ron Paul people, I’m off to poke graduate student bears with a stick!
(sound of running feet)
January 14, 2008 at 11:15 am
bitchphd
Ari, that made me guffaw out loud. So, so mean.
January 14, 2008 at 12:51 pm
ari
Mean is my metier. Or maybe my medium. Possibly it’s both.