How are you all staying productive while you wait?

[psm1580b]

I teach three courses so I can stay fairly busy. I wish I were teaching more, but c'est la vie I suppose.

[SamStone]

11 hours ago, MentalEngineer said:

When do we get to come see him?!

Soon! I was just over at the Super Bowl party with her...i thought you might be there. 

[emmm]

I am also teaching three classes and writing a master's thesis and my family is cooperating in the plot to keep me too busy to think by acting as though they can't manage on their own. I am still finding time management extremely difficult right now and I already KNOW I've been admitted. I think it it just such a big deal to me that it's going to take a bit of time to adjust to the idea :-)

Walking outside helps -- especially when it's sunny. It uses up time but relaxes me to the point where I can actually work productively.

[bechkafish]

Oh, you know. This and that. Trying to instigate blood pacts with Satan for an acceptance email.

[psm1580b]

1 hour ago, bechkafish said:

Oh, you know. This and that. Trying to instigate blood pacts with Satan for an acceptance email.

any luck?

[bechkafish]

Not yet, @psm1580b, he's actually super hard to get ahold of? Apparently there's more to it than making your cat sit in the middle of a pentagram on the floor and putting on a black bathrobe and mumbling a bit in Latin.

[gughok]

12 minutes ago, bechkafish said:

Not yet, @psm1580b, he's actually super hard to get ahold of? Apparently there's more to it than making your cat sit in the middle of a pentagram on the floor and putting on a black bathrobe and mumbling a bit in Latin.

You probably want to try Sumerian.

[MentalEngineer]

6 hours ago, gughok said:

You probably want to try Sumerian.

They didn't have Satan. You want Aramaic. Also, the cat goes on the outside of the pentagram, you go on the inside, and there's no bathrobe. You all remembered the goat blood, right?

[bechkafish]

Cat has lodged a formal complaint re: being used in the summoning of demonic forces, she's been promoted now to Thesis Helper and Unwilling Snuggle Recipient while I check my email eighteen times an hour.

[thehegeldialectic]

I have been reading Marx's Capital vol. 1 using David Harvey's course on YouTube as a guide/framework/motivation/reinforcement.

I'm also slaving away eight hours a day at Starbucks, trying to help out with the bills.

Edited February 12, 2016 by iunoionnis

[thatsjustsemantics]

On 2/10/2016 at 11:59 PM, bechkafish said:

Cat has lodged a formal complaint re: being used in the summoning of demonic forces, she's been promoted now to Thesis Helper and Unwilling Snuggle Recipient while I check my email eighteen times an hour.

cute cat? have my upvotes.

[abisch]

Graham Priest is visiting my university. Yesterday I saw him give a talk on dialetheism, and then I got to go to dinner with him and my philosophy department. For a moment I almost forgot about this website 

[MentalEngineer]

52 minutes ago, abisch said:

Graham Priest is visiting my university. Yesterday I saw him give a talk on dialetheism, and then I got to go to dinner with him and my philosophy department. For a moment I almost forgot about this website 

I gave you an upvote, but I wanted to give you a jealousy downvote.

[MVSCZAR]

On February 7, 2016 at 11:37 PM, SamStone said:

I haven't been able to keep busy...been way to distracted. So I got a puppy (a beagle)! haha. I've been wanting a dog for a while now, and thought it'd be as good a time as any to get one! 

I have a beagle, too! Her name is Minerva Berkeley!  

[SamStone]

6 hours ago, MVSCZAR said:

I have a beagle, too! Her name is Minerva Berkeley!  

Nice! how old is she? 

I decided to name mine Lou. I've only had her for a week now, but she is already a lot of fun. 

I really love beagles...I previously had one that had to be put down last summer. So its exciting to have another dog running around.

Edited February 14, 2016 by SamStone

[MVSCZAR]

10 minutes ago, SamStone said:

Nice! how old is she? 

I decided to name mine Lou. I've only had her for a week now, but she is already a lot of fun. 

I really love beagles...I previously had one that had to be put down last summer. So its exciting to have another dog running around.

Minerva is 5 today. Well, her birthday is probably not today, but when we got her, she was around 7 weeks old, and her birthday would have been some time around Valentine's day, so I put Valentine's day on her vet documents. She's a shelter dog, and apparently mixed slightly with something else, so she's a little bit bigger than a regular beagle and her snout is a teeny bit longer. 

 

This is her with a dog I take care of (whose name is Brooklyn Hercules):

[SamStone]

6 hours ago, MVSCZAR said:

Minerva is 5 today. Well, her birthday is probably not today, but when we got her, she was around 7 weeks old, and her birthday would have been some time around Valentine's day, so I put Valentine's day on her vet documents. She's a shelter dog, and apparently mixed slightly with something else, so she's a little bit bigger than a regular beagle and her snout is a teeny bit longer. 

 

This is her with a dog I take care of (whose name is Brooklyn Hercules):

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MINERVA! she looks like a really fun dog. And, Brooklyn Hercules and her look like a hilarious combo to watch. ...I love having a puppy, but I am really looking forward to when mine is a little older and she can actually play and do things on her own. 

 

[thehegeldialectic]

On the subject of staying productive while waiting: has anyone here been successful with a philosophy blog?

I attempted this as a way to stay busy while I wait but I've noticed it's difficult to avoid writing posts that feel like "papers" rather than blogs. I haven't seen many of these online, but I haven't really looked that much either. 

[oldmanPhDStudent]

10 minutes ago, iunoionnis said:

On the subject of staying productive while waiting: has anyone here been successful with a philosophy blog?

I attempted this as a way to stay busy while I wait but I've noticed it's difficult to avoid writing posts that feel like "papers" rather than blogs. I haven't seen many of these online, but I haven't really looked that much either. 

I've done such a thing, but it's been really demographically targeted. As such, I have had people recognize me at like-minded conferences by my name tag due to the blog, and even funded an overseas study trip in part due to people who read it.

EDIT: Just so it's clear: it's been very modest success; I wasn't and am not any kind of notable figure in anything, including blogging.

Edited February 16, 2016 by oldmanPhDStudent
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[philstudent1991]

1 hour ago, iunoionnis said:

On the subject of staying productive while waiting: has anyone here been successful with a philosophy blog?

I attempted this as a way to stay busy while I wait but I've noticed it's difficult to avoid writing posts that feel like "papers" rather than blogs. I haven't seen many of these online, but I haven't really looked that much either. 

I read Leiter of course, but my favorite blog is Philosopher's Cocoon. I also check in with Daily Nous, Philosophy Smoker and the meta blogs. 

[D-NixRT]

I got a TA position for my program right out of graduating, so I get to lecture a few times a semester and do all the grading for two classes. Everyone says grading is super dry, and it is, but I also really like it. I spend about 40 minutes per paper so naturally it takes up a lot of my time.

The rest of my waiting period is spent playing Fallout 4, slowly working through a book on metalogic, and stress eating. RIP.