The Thesis that Wouldn't Write Itself

I get it, part of the rite of passage into Master-hood is writing a heavy-duty chunky paper with scholarly insight, proper grammar, and a beautiful bibliography page. Does it have to include nit-picky professors, and non-existent references? For instance, I was reading a great article with great insight. It cited another article with a fantastic title which I cannot find anywhere. Did the first guy make up this citation to make his work look better? Can an academiac do such a thing? If so, can I as a mere grad student point this out? Where is this source? The all-knowing google has found nothing, ebsco and JSTOR are clueless, the supposed author herself can't identify this title... What gives? I'm too young to realize that academia is full of dishonest power-hungry politi-profs!

In other news, my thesis is about 1/7th finished. EEEK! I wish it would write itself already!

Who Am I?

I introduced my mother to blogging a long time ago. Her blog has become beloved, and mine fell off the planet. Undergrad will do that to someone's free time, I suppose. So I'm coming back. With a vengeance! Okay, maybe not with a vengeance.

The title: Cerebral or Not! Here I Come! Where does this come from? In my first semester of Graduate studies, a professor gave me a lower grade than I deserved. According to his syllabus I had earned an A. According to him, I was too cerebral in my work. Wow. I've never been called TOO smart for anything before. After a couple of emails back and forth, he decided that his reasoning was faulty and rectified the matter. To my friends I'm silly, impulsive, and a repository for too many useless factoids. To me, I'm just me. Laura. Cerebral or not, I'm Laura.

I love many things and people. My husband, David, has the highest spot on the list! Hiking, Cooking, Gardening, Musical Analysis, Painting... All of these are fair game for future blog content. Well, there's a start!