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gah
8:00p: you'd think I don't want this fellowship, it's so hard for me to get words on the page to apply for it.
ghah.
9:45p: continues to bonk head against outline. Outline now 700 words. Need a sense of how to begin conclusion, then canstart to write fill in the remaining bullet points with prose.
10:15p: okay, got a conclusion paragraph, cannibalized from rambling in intro. Total now 820 words. many bullet points still in skeleton. argh, it's like pulling teeth.
10:50p: now over 1000 words, and I've not finished filling out the skeleton. argh. need to write it all and then cut cut cut.
but I have a phrase I like:
"Weblog-based communities, however, need not be bound by [geographic] constraints: a student of contemporary theater in Flint may contact a playwright in Seattle as easily as Ann Arbor." I'm going to try to keep that one if I can fit it in.
11:45p: okay, now it looks basically in shape. another pass over it tomorrow to cut stuff out and I'll be okay. It's fine right now except for the references, which make it too long. and it's probably full of stupid gaffes so I really need to read it over.
.... on the good news I realized I'm only competing wtih the humanities department nominees; no more than two from each of the following:
Asian Languages and Literature
Classics
Comparative History of Ideas
Comparative Literature
English
French and Italian Studies
Germanics
Linguistics
Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
Scandinavian Studies
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Spanish and Portuguese Studies
I was afraid I'd be scrounging against every department in the Arts and Sciences college.
ghah.
9:45p: continues to bonk head against outline. Outline now 700 words. Need a sense of how to begin conclusion, then can
10:15p: okay, got a conclusion paragraph, cannibalized from rambling in intro. Total now 820 words. many bullet points still in skeleton. argh, it's like pulling teeth.
10:50p: now over 1000 words, and I've not finished filling out the skeleton. argh. need to write it all and then cut cut cut.
but I have a phrase I like:
"Weblog-based communities, however, need not be bound by [geographic] constraints: a student of contemporary theater in Flint may contact a playwright in Seattle as easily as Ann Arbor." I'm going to try to keep that one if I can fit it in.
11:45p: okay, now it looks basically in shape. another pass over it tomorrow to cut stuff out and I'll be okay. It's fine right now except for the references, which make it too long. and it's probably full of stupid gaffes so I really need to read it over.
.... on the good news I realized I'm only competing wtih the humanities department nominees; no more than two from each of the following:
Asian Languages and Literature
Classics
Comparative History of Ideas
Comparative Literature
English
French and Italian Studies
Germanics
Linguistics
Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
Scandinavian Studies
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Spanish and Portuguese Studies
I was afraid I'd be scrounging against every department in the Arts and Sciences college.
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Some things are just hard to get out on paper. If you've got an outline, it sounds like you're well on your way, though.
I hope the beach vacation was fun and relaxing!
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I think I need to give it to the department tomorrow. I might run a draft atcha some time tomorrow but I'd be more likely to hit you up for what you think a CV needs to look like. I've got lotsa facts, but I don't know what order they need to be in.
beach was lovely. especially Monday night; we saw a sunset that you wouldn't believe. Well, maybe you would; you live in the PNW too.
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