gillpolack @ 2012-07-07T00:08:00
I have fixed all but the very last few footnotes in my dissertation. Those last few depend on a revision of that chapter, so I can leave them tonight without guilt. Unless I want to feel guilt, being Jewish and all.
Alas, I finished work too late for G&S, for footnotes are slow, but there is tomorrow. Tomorrow is editing of novel and also all the writing I didn't get done today, so I might fit Pinafore in between. No, I *will* fit it in between tasks, for I need breaks and singing and dancing.
I'd forgotten what long, long complex nests of tasks there are at this stage of a big scholarly project. My systems are not as good as they once were. This is partly because someone lost me some of my reference cards, last year, trying to be helpful, but also because one really does have to think quite differently for a novel to an academic thingie. Doing both at once interrelated was a lot of fun (and I may well try it again, for it meant I learned in spades), but it was hard to systematise. The bottom line was that when it came to a choice between noting things for scholarly apparatus and writing a better novel, it turns out that I focus on the novel. My systems worked perfectly when I focussed on library research for the dissertation (well, until cards got lost). Anyhow, this makes the fiddly things very fiddly indeed when one is looking at the exit sign and wondering it it's achievable. It is. I'm very glad I had that tough training as an undergrad, though - this is the time it really, really pays off.
And now my hard work pays off for I am entitled to one night's sleep. Voucher not transferrable.
Alas, I finished work too late for G&S, for footnotes are slow, but there is tomorrow. Tomorrow is editing of novel and also all the writing I didn't get done today, so I might fit Pinafore in between. No, I *will* fit it in between tasks, for I need breaks and singing and dancing.
I'd forgotten what long, long complex nests of tasks there are at this stage of a big scholarly project. My systems are not as good as they once were. This is partly because someone lost me some of my reference cards, last year, trying to be helpful, but also because one really does have to think quite differently for a novel to an academic thingie. Doing both at once interrelated was a lot of fun (and I may well try it again, for it meant I learned in spades), but it was hard to systematise. The bottom line was that when it came to a choice between noting things for scholarly apparatus and writing a better novel, it turns out that I focus on the novel. My systems worked perfectly when I focussed on library research for the dissertation (well, until cards got lost). Anyhow, this makes the fiddly things very fiddly indeed when one is looking at the exit sign and wondering it it's achievable. It is. I'm very glad I had that tough training as an undergrad, though - this is the time it really, really pays off.
And now my hard work pays off for I am entitled to one night's sleep. Voucher not transferrable.
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