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

[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....