base camp reached

[trochee]

I just gave a fairly final version of the introduction and background chapters to Advisor. There are still some citations to fill in, and all the figures are marked off (figuratively speaking) with police tape. But it's in her hands. I wrote her:

Apologies for this taking so long. I'm sure you're familiar with students' underestimation of the difficulty of writing-it-all-down, but it's always a surprise to *us*.

After I gave it to her, she came back into my office area and, laughing, pointed it at me sideways. "Remember, [trochee]," she said, with the thick stack of pages flat between her palms, "this is a master's thesis."

I blushed, and tried to explain: "No, it's 'cause I have to introduce the engineering and the linguistics, on both sides of the lexical layer -"

"No, I understand," she said. "But don't be so hard on yourself. It'll be fine."

So I feel better. I picked up the next chapter (Corpus), and realized that I've already written most of it. I'm reading through it now, and though it looks like there will be some edits, I should have a draft of that chapter done tonight too!

Comments

[lapartera.livejournal.com]

Wow! You're on a roll! That is so great -- maybe you'll actually be able to relax and enjoy being in Maine???

[trochee.livejournal.com]

that's the hope!

By the way, I just found out that you can tell del.icio.us to bookmark pages for other people (e.g. with the tag "for:lapartera"). Then if you are that user, you can visit http://del.icio.us/for and see what people have tagged for you (I tagged two for you today!).

[lapartera.livejournal.com]

Now that is very cool. I especially like the pedometer one. The high tech stitch counter is a bit much!

[trochee.livejournal.com]

heh. glad you like them. I think that's kinda fun, so we can forward you bookmarks through the del.icio.us thing.

I agree that the stitch counter was too much, but I thought you'd be amused by it.

[lapartera.livejournal.com]

Definitely amused!

Now how do I make this RSS feed thing work for this?

[trochee.livejournal.com]

work for what?

do you use an RSS reader or consolidator already?

[lapartera.livejournal.com]

Well, I've been able to put RSS feeds into my Bookmarks on Firefox and on my Thunderbird accounts. Couldn't figure out how to do this via Firefox, but maybe I can get Thunderbird to do it.

[lapartera.livejournal.com]

Nevermind, I figured it out in Thunderbird. Now maybe I can also figure it out in Firefox.

Can't wait to see you!

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

I can't figure out how to do that in firefox either. I've been trying to figure it out for 2 days....

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

Awww, good for you! Also, hurrah for Advisor.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

oooh, I like the new icon!!

[trochee.livejournal.com]

thanks! I am considering making it a default.

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

Go! Go! Go! Yakisoba!

(Awesome.)

[trochee.livejournal.com]

mmm... yakisoba.

i think it's a little too late for me to get that.

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

When does Best of Bento close? They might be open a little while longer.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

you know, it doesn't matter that much. I'm close enough to done with that chapter that I hope to just wrap it up, cite a few papers from another book, and take a bunch back to the library and call it a night.

woo-hoo! decadent me! may even be done before 10p!

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

He was not.

Done before 10 pm.

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

I heard it was within the range of 10pm... like much closer to 10pm than, oh, 2am.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

ASHITAKA!!!

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

You are the champion, my friend.

It's better when read like Captain Kirk

[xaosenkosmos.livejournal.com]

We are all, the champions, my friends.
We will all, persist, in fighting, until the end.
We all, have no time, no time for losers, for we are, we are all, the champions.
We are all, in fact, the champions, the champions, of the world, my friends.

Re: It's better when read like Captain Kirk

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Hee.

[ex-caracola454.livejournal.com]

Yay! I bet it's the bestest, too! You're such a star. And you're going to Maine? Deets about your travel plans, plsthx!