I’m taking the day off from work to just be a Ph.D. student today. I’ve got a paper to work on, I’m attending a research symposium and I’ve scheduled a meeting with our grad school coordinator about my dissertation process and comps.

I really want to use Ulysses or Scrivener for my dissertation, but I’m hooked on Zotero’s citation management integration with Word. And the process of connecting Zotero with Scrivener seems… complicated.

My PhD research is on how people respond to logos. One factor for a successful rollout appears to be context. How will the logo be used? What’s the story behind the change? More context = better response. Neither Cracker Barrel nor MSNBC gave any real context. Here’s my published study on context.

Thanks Cracker Barrel and MSNBC! I needed some more recent logo backlashes for my dissertation.

Me: I really need to wrap up this paper on deprofessionization in the design industry so I can move on to working on my dissertation.

Also me: Digging FOUR papers out from past classes that I never did anything with and revisiting them.