sarahmichelef

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...

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?