I'm taking a break from what is currently the frustrating business of finishing my SIP. I revised the whole thing this week and deleted a whole lot, and while it's much cleaner and smoother, it's also much shorter. I was on course to be well over the required twenty pages (which seems like a very low requirement, I know), now I'm faced with the unpleasant possibility of having to write four pages on "integration" (i.e. my personal response to Edmund Spenser's conception of chastity). I just have trouble with the idea of personal response in a scholarly paper. You know what this means, this means I'm going to have to completely rewrite the end of this paper in order to send it to a prospective grad school (okay, so I'll probably revise it a lot anyway). But I am enjoying my SIP, getting to know these people with strange names like Britomart, Paridell, Scudamore. I gave a nice little SIP presentation the other day, complete with bleeding stick figures.
I am really enjoying the British Sea Power I bought last night with my first born male child. I'm also enjoying Woman King, the new Iron & Wine EP. It fits my SIP very well, the image of the woman "sword in hand, swing at some evil and bleed."
Posted by linnea at April 13, 2005 10:17 PM | TrackBackYea, that "integration" part kind of sucks. I was thankful that in the history dept, they let our historiography papers be the "integration section" and just let us write a paper. (I don't know if they still do that.) I don't understand why "integration" can't be just writing the freakin' paper. A section at the end that's your response isn't true integration, it's just a section of the paper. True integration of whatever it is you're integrating (which I still haven't got figured out) should be seamless, as mixed together as milk in coffee. Sometimes I wish Cov would worry less about integrating (what are they REALLY trying to integrate?!) and just do some good scholarly work already! If Christ is truly preeeminent in all things, then we shouldn't have to worry about putting Him in all things. He's already there! or in me or whatever. Sorry...better stop now before I get all polemical. Like I really need that right now.
Posted by: Jeannette at April 14, 2005 11:14 AMI'm ambivalent. On the one hand, I like to mix the scholarly and the personal, since I believe it makes it more relevant. But on the other hand, I can't imagine how I'm going to integrate my faith into my paper on hypertext, so I guess I see your point.
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