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Damn my job uses a lot of paper... 18 pages of NSF project abstracts, 4 pages of feature article abstracts, 5 pages of brainstorm list, 20 or so pages of manuscript tracking database... all of which I'll be making 6 copies of for the meeting on Friday. Fortunately I've convinced them that duplex copying is a good thing.

Now I should get academic work done... must come up with what the heck I'm going to say during one of my sessions at Internet Research 4.0. They want something that resembles a paper to put on the website by Oct. 1. Fortunately they've said that outlines are fine for stuff that's not really at a point where it can be in paper form. And frankly, that's all this one is ever gonna be. The other presentation is the paper I finished last week, so all I have to do there is write an abstract and ship it off. I'm sorta holding off in the hopes that I'll get some form of comments from my committee members before then, though that seems really unlikely. And no, I haven't forgotten that I promised to post the paper online - I just haven't remembered to open it on X so that I can save it as a .pdf file.

My sister knows one of the kids who's in The All American Rejects. He was 2 or 3 years behind her in school. For reference, that means those kids are MAX 21 years old. <sigh> I have wasted my life...
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I just finished typing in the last changes to what had bloody well better be the last draft of the damn chat room paper.

Copies available on the In-ter-net tomorrow or Monday. I'll be sending it to my committee members tomorrow as well. I promised Bob he'd have a paper from me when he got back into town next week.

I feel like I should take tomorrow off or something.
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So I'm editing my chat paper and I was SO inconsistent in my use of tenses. Sometimes I describe my observations in present tense, sometimes in past tense. I feel like I should pick one. What do my dear readers think? Is it ok to talk about some things in the present tense but refer to things that happened during my observations in the past tense?

48 hours...

Aug. 6th, 2003 04:24 pm
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In 48 hours I will be at Pennsic. Things are very close to being ready to go - almost everything's laid out in the study, the newspaper and the mail have been stopped (thank you Matthew!), the clothes are all made and mended. Tonight, we go to fencing practice (assuming that it doesn't rain - *looking around for wood to knock on*) and then we finish laying stuff out and figure out where to pack it all. Tomorrow, I get everything ready to go for the Rose Editorial Board meeting at the ASAs - I have no idea how long that's going to take, but as soon as it's done I'm going home to finish getting ready for Pennsic. And then we leave early early Friday morning. I am conveniently going to be at a very good point to drop academic work for a week and a half as well, because I just finished marking up the latest draft of the paper I'm working on. Whoo!

Sociology Geekery )

So anyway, if I'm too busy to write anything tomorrow, everyone have a good week and a half - and I'll tell Pennsic and ASA stories when I get back!

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