Days off are wonderful

[ellid]

Not only did I have a lovely day researching quattrocento Italian art and culture, I picked up a new Smith sweatshirt ("Smith College Alumna," white and pale blue letters on dark blue, very spiffy) at a huge discount, and had a lovely lunch at the Student Center.

I also found out something very satisfying about my research that makes it clear that, even though I'm not a Ph.D. candidate, I'm indeed doing cutting edge research.

*squees for a moment, then goes back to work*

Hope everyone's having a good day!

Comments

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

I also found out something very satisfying about my research that makes it clear that, even though I'm not a Ph.D. candidate, I'm indeed doing cutting edge research.

Hurrah for you!

[varianor.livejournal.com]

Seconded! Can you say what it is? (And have you ever considered an alternative PhD program. Just submit your research? There must be someplace that would do this.)

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Let's just say that a statement that *cough*santinalevey*cough* made in The Cambridge History of Western Textiles will have to be retracted in the very near future.

[ednama.livejournal.com]

Nothing better than a day of free, personnal research! Ah, the feeling of deepening studies on a subject just cause you like it... I should experience it more!

[xrian.livejournal.com]

Been there, done that (though in a completely different field). Isn't it a liberating moment? The dawning of, "Hey..... I can see the edge from here! Wow!" (even if only temporary....)

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I am definitely on the edge of rewriting textile history...I mean, when a Big Authoritative Book written in 2003 says that there was no patchwork until the early 1700s, and it started in England, and you know very well that there's a pillow that's nearly two hundred years older than that that's *all* patchwork, well...

*remembers that she has to write the blasted paper first*

[tena524.livejournal.com]

May I cheerfully, respectfully (and enviously) remind you that you get to go to Florence on the strength of the 'blasted' paper?