The Albatross thinks it'll go for a walk.

[truepenny]

Heard back from my advisor. Boiled down, the results of the ensuing conversation were that I have about two more days' worth of work to do, including another FUCKING trip to the FUCKING library.

If I sound bitter, it's because I am.

It honestly is a perfectly reasonable and doable amount of work. It's not even difficult. I just so don't want to do it.

*sigh*

I dug my own pit, so I should really quit bitching about the mud.

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[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

Your icon for this post is admirably chosen.

Albatross!

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Sorry. Was watching Monty Python's Flying Circus earlier and thought of you with every call of "Albatross!" Don't worry; you'll soon be done, and once you've unloaded the albatross you can get back to hawking gannet on a stick.

this happens with every one and their diss.

[rutemple.livejournal.com]

I recognize this: this is the moment that made me realize that doing technical editing on these things is so very much a midwifery practice. You are indeed at the stage analagous to any woman who has been pregnant far too long, whose labor is going into the Nth hour, and you are So Ready To Be Done. Now. Please.

This too shall pass; you may even yet pass back into loving the manuscript before it's delivered, and yes, it shall be delivered.

But I swear to you: everybody goes through this stage. Not that perhaps it helps any in this case to know you're not alone. But it does pass. I'm just saying.

Off to tell someone in my sphinx-like way that they missed the part in the APA reference formatting that specifies thou shalt use two-letter abbreviations in the state part of thy press locations, and must spell their URLs exactly perfectly, no third / after the http: and without omitting the . after the www ...

Have I mentioned how much I love your phrase about combing the hair of and making sure the zippers are zipped on a manuscript before sending it off? O how I wish some of my clients would finish dressing theirs...

[oracne.livejournal.com]

[pat, pat, pat]

After the two days, it will be Almost WisCon.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

sympathies, expressed in whatever form you would most like them.

[pameladean]

Eeeeeee! It's Zeno's Albatross!

But yes, you'll have a grand excuse to celebrate at Wiscon. I can't come. You can have my fun too if you'd like it.

Pamela

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

It's Zeno's Albatross!

I was cursing Zeno just last night. Either that's a really obvious joke (for certain values of "obvious" we have in common), or just for a second my mind was working like yours. The second possibility makes me feel smart, so it's the one I choose.

[lalouve.livejournal.com]

The last few weeks of dissertation writing, I used to spend the entire day steeling myself to the two hours of work I got done between 7 and 9 pm. I still don't much love my dissertation, but I did survive it; there is a tine after the PhD, when one can go do all the other things life has to offer. And what's the use of digging your own pits if you can't bitch about the mud?