Miscellanea
Things I need to remember:
• Asking for help is not, as it turns out, fatal.
• Laughing is easier than pulling your hair out, and doesn't have the unfortunate side effect of making you look like a plague victim.
• Even the biggest tasks can be defeated if taken a bit at a time.
• I can write a paper the night before it's due, but the results are not all they could be.
• Be thorough, but focused.
• Trust yourself.
• Honesty, always.
Historians are the Cassandras of the Humanities
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Date: March 19th, 2012 05:33 pm (UTC)Unless (and call me paranoid, but these days, can one be too paranoid?), it's just part of a larger program of creating the ability and 'legality' to spy on people full time for any reason. Like with the abortion battle, these wars are best waged piecemeal, on seemingly unrelated fronts, until suddenly, we realize we've lost the war...