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delay
So apparently editing and submitting my paper took all my writing brain cells this week. Either that or I’m more effective at the beginning of the week, and Friday is not a good time to write! I’ll try to have a post up on Monday or Tuesday; this time I’m planning ahead so that I…
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new schedule
Sorry about the tardy post this week. I fully intend to have it up before I go to work today. I’m starting a new part-time job, which means I have to yank myself out of bed earlier in the morning to get anything done, and today was the first day I succeeded. Hopefully next week…
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motivation deficit
We had a ton of snow here in the last couple weeks (very unusual, city and citizens generally not prepared for such weather), so I was stuck inside for 5 days at least. Instead of translating into awesome writing time, this has delayed responses from schools (because campuses are closed thru the region), and cabin…
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Lesson 0: What is analysis?
This blog is about Functional Analysis in music. For people already familiar with music analysis, I have an explanation of what I believe FA is and does https://functionalanalysis.wordpress.com/what-is-functional-analysis/ But, I’m also expanding to start posting about how to learn FA from the ground up, whether you are a musician, not, or somewhere in between, so…
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organization and plans
In the last couple weeks I’ve sent off 11 or so academic applications, so I spent most of my time on cover letters, teaching philosophy, and formatting writing samples to send. I also had to dig up my composition portfolio from my Master’s degree (that was a headache)! Today, I worked on reorganizing the blog…
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article progress
This week while fussing with CV and other job application materials, I decided on a title for the article I’m distilling out of my dissertation: Functional Analysis in the Classroom. I really like it, but now I’m afraid I’ll have to go back through and change large chunks of example explanations to fit the title/intro…
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post graduation plans
Graduation was 4 months ago now, and I’ve had enough of a break since finishing my dissertation that I’m starting to look at jobs and publications. After talking with my advisor, I’m trying to figure out a way to make my dissertation into a more manageable writing sample or possibly publishable as a smaller article.…