Year: 2016
Finishing up the Winter 2016 Quarter…Thesis Time
I’m (way) behind on my writing timetable. Who would have thought it would take longer than planned to write a thesis? No, not me. Yeah. Not me.
Pages don’t write themselves. It takes fingers on keys to make the magic happen. That’s that magic I’m working on.
Talking with some of my Cohort members, I’m not alone. We use the discussion boards to push and pull each other along. I don’t know where I’d be without the support and encouragement of those 15 friends and colleges as we face our final quarter together, starting in, ah, 2 hours and 46 minutes.
I should be able to post my grades for the almost completed quarter later this week.
Time passes.
On the passing of Justice Scalia
No, I have no special connection to the last Justice Scalia. No, I was not a big fan of his opinions (and, more accurately, his many dissents). However, I learned long ago to read his opinions and dissents. He was a brilliant legal scholar, a literate writer, and a debater to be feared.
Over the past couple of years in the DLP program, we studied many of Justice Scalia’s dissents and opinions. The dissents were always more fun.
Here are some links to quotes from the great mind, now silenced.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/06/25/the-top-15-quotes-from-justice-scalias-dissent-in-king-v-burwell/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/scalia-dissent_n_7662702.html
Jonathan
Plan B from Outer Space
Okay, then, things are changing. Like my thesis. I have to ponder a different reality, but one thing is for sure: Neenah Estrella-Luna, Ph.D. was right: The thesis you write may not be the one you planned to write.
Yeah, I’m down with that.
More later.
j