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October 30, 2007
sick of myself
175: do you think it's actually possible to bore yourself to death while responsibly reporting on minutia?
meeting w/esteemed advisor scheduled for next week. here's hoping: (1) useful methodological suggestions are forthcoming to illuminate the yet-un-started Chapter 4, & (2) methodological suggestions & other bits of vetted academic brilliance don't result in my being told to scrap many many pages.
not yet.
i'm a firm believer in the value of some good old-fashioned herd-culling. chop that shit to bits. but i'm still at the generation stage. let me make a gazillion pages, say everything i'm trying to say, see the (steamy) heaps of progress-made, and THEN go surgical on what the wide-lens identifies as excess.
Posted by ttobryan at 08:40 PM | Comments (0)
October 28, 2007
171, bitches.
i think i'm going to make like jason & call everybody "bitches." especially everybody i like. or everybody i want to witness even my itty-bitty victories.
Posted by ttobryan at 08:50 PM | Comments (0)
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inching, inching.
(for pwm, who doesn't care but who loves mathematical details, that's a 16-page introduction, a 51-page chapter 1, a 64-page chapter 2, and 33 pages so far of a chapter 3 that just keeps getting longer and longer, although parts of it might end up in chapter 5 instead. or for academom, who thinks in these terms instead, that's 57,432 words.)
Posted by ttobryan at 10:42 AM | Comments (0)
October 10, 2007
(don't stop, don't think, don't ask)
total count to date (not counting the TOC where the counting happens): 157.
it's a slow, slow hill some months. well. the months wherein nothing happens at all don't really count as slow-going, as that contains its prerequisite for going at all. but: 12 pages in the past 36 hours, which hours, i might add, were otherwise very full, and haven't been characterized by much sleeping.
but i am still out here.
Posted by ttobryan at 08:08 PM | Comments (0)