As for the 1 AM thing–no one NEEDS an iPhone at 1 AM, myself included, but when you live within walking distance of a 24-hour Apple Store and you’re as insomniacal as I can be, there’s no reason not to check it out.

Please notice the last 30 years of Apple marketing strategies. You thought this product launch would be any different? Sorry, I am going to have to roll my eyes here.

I was doing some fact checking recently and fortuitously Googled up your thesis. Congratulations! I read it in one sitting as it’s a subject dear and a little to near to my heart at the moment. I’m about to submit my manuscript for my book on the evolution of TV cooking shows (to be published by Continuum in April). You and I have spent a lot of time in the same places, I see, both literally and figuratively. I think we’re the only people who know who Corris Guy is – I, too, went to UCLA to watch her in that episode where she had her mom on the set in that hideous kitchen. I found your writing very engaging and your details are wonderful. It was a great resource for me to check myself and I learned a lot, too (unfortunately too late for me to add much more content, though). I live in NYC, too, so I hope our paths will cross in some food TV related venue before long (they probably already have). Thanks very much for putting your thesis out there and for covering so well what I, too, consider to be an important cultural topic.

Best of luck with your work.

Now where’s that catalog of courses the culinary academy sent me…

btw, one of the worst things in writing (imho) is starting the text, i think this rule could be applied to everything else, even finding a new job and things like that. But after starting, everything floooows.

One other thing i’ve perceived is that when you start something without an “end”, deadline, etc, you do it better. Try to educate your brain to not think in the steps, do not think that it will cost your various stages, just let if floooooooow