BORC

Another installment of "Bullets of Random Crap"!

• I am now in the midst of a breakneck, home-stretch dissertation-finishing schedule. I give revisions of chapters 1, 2, and 3 to my adviser on Sunday the 18th, and then revisions of 4, 5, and the conclusion on July 5. Chapters 1 and 3 needed the most work, by far, out of anything in the dissertation, so I'm eager to send those out. Then my adviser gives me comments, and I revise the whole thing and send it to the other members of the committee on July 16. I guess then we go from there, but I'm hoping to defend sometime in August. Please wish me luck.
• I demoted that quiz post off the front page of my blog. I couldn't stand being reminded of that awful song.
• I used de.lirio.us for a long time for my social bookmarking, as it was the open source alternative to del.icio.us. But now they've moved everything over to Simpy, so I guess I'm using that now. I haven't seen any evidence that Simpy is open source, though, and if it isn't, I'm just going to go ahead and use del.icio.us.
• I might have some big news in a week or so. I'll announce it here if it ends up working out.
• As soon as my dissertation is done, I'm going to take my blog in a new direction (while not leaving behind any of the old directions, mind you). For a long time, I've been interested in the environmental issues, but I haven't written about it. Not many bloggers do, from what I've noticed. The only one I can think of who consistently addresses environmental politics is Emily at Strangechord. I'm going to add a new category for environmental issues and start posting about those often.