24-Hour Encouragement for
Renée Hayes, a Ph. D. candidate

(Update: In December 2002, Renée Hayes became a new Ph.D. Viva Renée and the whole "village" of the voices below who contributed to this victory!)

Renee, shut up, WORK on your DISSERTATION, girl!!!

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Name: Ana Marjanovic Shane
Date: Friday, 02 November 2001
Time: 05:25:59 PM -0800

Message:

Renee, you simply cannot resist to work on your dissertation. Every morning your first thought as you look in the mirror is: "I need to work on my disseration! I want to work on my dissertation!"
 
 Everybody is telling you that you need to do something more productive and keep the family but, no, all you want to do is your dissertation...
 
 (magicking)

Love

Ana

*** You will see that magicking really works if you read it to yourself at least once a day aloud.

Name: jiminy cricket
Date: Friday, 02 November 2001
Time: 05:26:29 PM -0800

Message:

you better do it you better you better do it you better you better do it
 you better do it you better do it you better do it you better do it you better or else just do it OR ELSE you better do it JUST DO IT you better or else you better or

Name: Lev Matusov
Date: Friday, 02 November 2001
Time: 07:05:25 PM -0800

Message

Renee, you have to know that Person without dissertation, like a horseman without head

Name: A.N. Leont'ev
Date: Friday, 02 November 2001
Time: 11:28:31 PM -0800

Message

Hi Renee,

Mark insightfully informed me-- he told me he finds your motives "rather interesting"-- that it's possible that the motive for working on your dissertation may be secondary to other leading cultural-historical motives. Interestingly, it may very well be that commodified aspects of the capitalist economic life-realities may be playing into your activity. If this is the case, the work activity may be restricted by an "ideology of laziness." I suggest that you listen to the words on this website at least 4 times daily to break such commodified habits.

Sincerely, A.N. Leont'ev

Name: Virginia Wolf-Candela
Date: Sunday, 04 November 2001
Time: 09:13:00 AM -0800

Message

The most important thing is to finish your dissertation now to become an independent WOMAN so that you can help other WOMEN finishing theirs!!! DO NOT FORGET TO BE HAPPY!!!!! :-) Un abrazo!

Name: Leda Echevers
Date: Thursday, 08 November 2001
Time: 07:30:21 PM -0800

Message

Meet the BITTEREST person in the world (according to Matt Groening)

-- The Grad School Drop Out

1. Spent N years living wretchedly;

2. plowed through thousands of tedious books and/or papers;

3. worked late into the night;

4. repressed all anger;

5. had a series of low-paying degrading jobs;

6. finally gave up after being unable to finish thesis;

7. currently unable to enjoy anything ...

And I would add, hopefully not having to say "would you like fries with that?" for a living.

Woman, I just have one thing to tell you: Just do whatever you need to do to finish that %@#$*! dissertation.

Of course you can interpret this in one of two ways:

1) get your butt moving and go write, or

2) defend your right to mediocrity and do the minimum possible to get it done.

Remember that there are only two types of dissertations: perfect and done. You pick.

Big hug. You can do it. And you can do it quick.

Name: Cris
Date: Wednesday, 14 November 2001
Time: 03:18:14 PM -0800

Message

It will be my life's work to deepen the discontent in every woman's heart about her dissertation until she bows down to it no longer. Lucy Stone, 19th c Amer. feminist

One is not born a dissertating woman, one is made. Simone de Beauvoir

Just do your dissertation! (original slogan for Nike, declined because too narrow)

Name: Michele Kreisman, Ph.D.
Date: Sunday, 09 December 2001
Time: 12:28:55 PM -0800

Message

Renee, finish your dissertation so that you may join our club of the insane.

Name: Buddha
Date: Thursday, 13 December 2001
Time: 04:54:30 PM -0800

Message

Renee,

I neglected to inform you about something that will lead you toward enlightenment in finishing your dissertation. Kill your dissertation! Kill the Buddha! (Well, maybe do the dissertation first, and then we'll reassess).

The Buddha

Name: Lindy Smith (Mark's Dad)
Date: Thursday, 21 March 2002
Time: 05:23:11 PM -0800

Message

Just Do It!

--(I'm now a Nike executive).

Name: Professor Lion
Date: Friday, 09 January 2004
Time: 12:48:07 PM -0500

Message

Congratulation, my former gradaute student -- now Doctor of Philosophy Honorable Ms. Renee (now Dr. Renee), with brilliant defense of your powerful dissertation! This is a great contribution to the field!

December 2002.

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Professor and Dr. Eugene Matusov © 2001

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