sjester

I'm going to have to make sure it's okay with Dr. Otero that I give the Honors Program a bound copy of my thesis early next week instead of this Friday. And I have a damned good excuse for it: I won't be able to get final comments from my advisor before Friday. And final comments are important.

And this delay in getting comments is why, on Wednesday night before the putative due date for my thesis, I stil have about half of it written. Well, half of what I'm going to turn in for the purposes of graduating with honors. Half of this week's battle has been keeping this project at a manageable size. There is so much that I can't even begin to cover in the time I have. So I've resigned myself to merely scratching the surface, and I think I'll keep working with this idea even after I graduate.

I got very little writing done yesterday. The half-page that I did knock out I wrote while sitting in the English department library. Tried to write after getting home, but that was completely unsuccessful on account of it being really fucking hot in the house. And I have a terrible time doing anything in the heat, because I'm either sapped of energy or really irritated at being uncomfortable and thus generally irritable. So for this evening, I've escaped to the Flying Guppie to write for a bit. And I have another half page. I wasn't able to use my preferred method for dealing with getting stuck and staring at my computer screen, which is to print out a copy and handwrite the next bit until I get going again. Because the printer at our house sucks. It's an old printer with continuous feed paper. And it got horribly jammed and was way more trouble than it was worth. So, yeah. I'm very glad we have two brand new reams of paper in the Scribendi office, because I will definitely be taking advantage of this fact tomorrow.

So, now that I won't be giving my advisor my rough draft until Friday, that means I won't be doing revisions tomorrow evening. Which also means that I have something like more time for studying for the Latin exam I'm taking Friday. (Decided to take it early in case we're going to Denver this weekend.) Assuming I finish before tomorrow's study session commences. Which means I should get back to writing, so that tonight I can dispatch one of the two major points I have left to discuss.

Oh, and my thesis laurels arrived today. Time to earn them...