Ouch, My Head

This is how I know I am a blowhard grad student. Instead of titling chapters something simple like “medicine and disability in the nineenth century” I think it is a good idea to use obscure pop cultural references that nobody will understand.

I am trying to stop this tendency to overtake my better judgement in naming the dissertation. Like a total ass, I want to name it “Please Don’t Pass Me By: (subtitle obscured to maintain secret identiy). This is a song Leonard Cohen performed on a live album fifty years ago and nobody would ever get the reference. And what’s worse, it doesn’t even make sense considering what I am supposedly writing. 

I’m an ass who is destined to alienate my entire committee.