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[d_aulnoy]

Aaaaaaand ... the Goblin Market paper is done. I've given it the pretentious title of "Rates of (Ex)Change: The Goblin Market and Voodoo Acounting". (I seem to be having more of a thing for parentheses then usual, even.) It was an interesting piece to write, and I think that some of it's even sent me off in new directions dissertation-wise, but, man, is it weird writing non-academic papers: I find myself twitchily including citations even when I don't need them. When I finished the first draft? I was at 6,300 words, or 800 over my limit. By the time I finished cutting them out? I was within 200 words. Freaky.

Speaking of "freaky", my computer shut down on me when I was half-way through the first set of line edits. That hasn't happened to me since the Crapple, and it had me most truly and sincerely wigged: I envisioned losing my dissertation, having to retype the paper by midnight off of my one hard-copy in a frenzy of hunt'n'pecking, and searching frantically through all of my random fire-hazard inducing piles of paper to find drafts of everything from my c.v. to my thin folder of fledgeling fiction. After trying fruitlessly to restart it, I went screaming for Roommate B. like an exorcised banshee, and was met with a USB key and the use of her laptop to get the paper off of my e-mail, cleaned up, and off to the editor, bless her little heart.

TPB thinsk I need this: http://www.swissknifeshop.com/page/SKS/PROD/SBUSB/qts/gawusb
I think he might be right.

But before I can go running to a CompUSA tomorrow, I'm taking my class to the Renaissance Faire by the Cloisters tomorrow. Hope I'll see some of you there ....


P.S. -What's up with the lack of rich-text, by the way? Given my sad lack of HTML skills, it makes for bleak and colorless posts ...

Comments

[cataptromancer.livejournal.com]

wait -- did you stay in on a saturday night, too? it makes me feel a lot better about myself

of course, I've got a cold

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Yep, I did. And so do I. Damnit. Stupid cold.

Hey, did you go to the falconry thing despite being illish? That sounded nifty, and I was sorry to have to miss it ....

[schrodingersgnu.livejournal.com]

Is "acounting" deliberately misspelled?

[schrodingersgnu.livejournal.com]

Oh, and unless you actually need the knife and scissors, you can find a 512MB key for $20-30. I know, I know, you like knives, but still...

[freddiemac.livejournal.com]

One can NEVER have enough knives or scissors...that's why I suggested it to her... ;)

mac

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Oh, goddamnit - I just paid 70 bucks for a 512MB key. Sigh ...

[damascene.livejournal.com]

eBay, poppet, eBay.

About six weeks ago I bought a 2 GIG stick for my othersweetie for $95, including shipping.

freddiemac's right, though, one can NEVER have enough edged weaponry and tools, especially the easily-carried kind, so that nifty little purse-widget might be just what you want to have in mind when someone asks you what you want for your birthday.