dis and dat

[truepenny]

I'll take it out before the dis goes to the committee, but just at the moment my conclusion is titled: Buttercup is marry Humperdinck in little less 'an half an hour.

The Equus section is now its own thing, a coda, rather than part of the conclusion. Because it isn't really part of the argument about revenge tragedy. Things feel tidier this way, and it isolates the conclusion, like a steer being cut out from the herd. Or something.

Faced with writing the conclusion, my brain has devolved into a sulky teenager. I don't wanna talk about it, it mutters and slams its bedroom door shut.

In the interests of constructive procrastination, I'm going to go look at the university's format guidelines for dissertations, which they have obligingly posted online.

Bah.

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things left in the submissions

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

My parents have both sat on review boards for grant commitees and organizations along those lines. Sometimes they've mentioned odd lines that have been left in the proposals.

Such as a grant proposal that was evidently being shuffled between collaborators, and one left in a section titled "Bob, put a little more bullshit in here."

Sulking brain

[kate_nepveu]

My brain has been doing that all day with trial prep stuff. Which is bad, because it's tomorrow.

OTOH, I am energized now by sheer bafflement at how the case is developing.

Maybe the guidelines will be so weird that the outrage will give you energy? Or something?

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I still like that line. Probably your committee is to stuffy, though. Committees seem to be, even if they're individually non-stuffy.

[calanthe-b.livejournal.com]

Faced with writing the conclusion, my brain has devolved into a sulky teenager. I don't wanna talk about it, it mutters and slams its bedroom door shut.

~huggles~ I can't think what to type, I'm laughing so hard. Not laughing at you, mind--just in sheer hysterical recognition of the syndrome, coupled with a with that I could express it that well!

And I love your conclusion title. Speaking of which, you may be happy to know that I have managed to sneak a quote from the Tough Guide into my Introduction...