My dissertation is printing out with vertical lines down the right side of every page that has a picture on it.  I am rather annoyed.  On the other hand...  It's about to be done.  I hope.  If I can wake up tomorrow morning in time to figure out how to fix it.  I'll see what they can do at staples with photocopying or I'll run down to Penn and try ( Read more... )

So, I just printed out my entire dissertation, the first step towards compiling it.  Only problem?  I know that there's a huge checklist to check for formatting issues but I somehow conveniently forgot to actually DO any of those things.  Bah.

320 sheets of paper printed for nothing.

Fun fact?  It takes a touch over 25 minutes to print this baby

Just finished the edits of things I wanted to fix and my advisor wanted me to fix.  TOmorrow I'll do the ones my second reader wants, which are extensive, and then turn it in to my readers again, hopefulyl for the last time.  Holy shit, I might actualyl do this!  Oh my go,d I'm so tired!  I tun this in at 10 AM on Wednesday, so I've got 80 hours to ( Read more... )

Ach.  I'm getting old.  I've never before had to increase the size on my document to see my footnotes for proper editing.  On the other hand... OMG I'm worrying about where the commas and the periods are!  That's _very_ close to the end!  Yee haw ( Read more... )

I should be in bed, but I'm way too excited.  I put the whole thing in one file and put in all the right formatting (or enough so that my advisor and first reader can both get a taste of it.  No pictures but I'll send them along later.  The total weighs in at 271 pages, without most of its footnotes, or any illustrations or bibliography.  78,680 ( Read more... )

DONE!!!  HOLY SHIT!!!  I have a complete copy of my dissertation, all edited nice and pretty.  OMG ( Read more... )

I've got houseguests. Of the four-legged variety. It's kinda fun having creatures here, even if they are cats, not dogs. I think I can forgive them. Right now Zebedee is sitting in my lap, walking over the keyboard, climbing off my lap. They're soft little things. And they say hello when I come back home. They don't know quite the right ( Read more... )

Anybody in the Philly area, Haverford is looking for refs for November 11th.  Pay is $200 for the day.  Email Chris Spencer if you can ref.  And please pass this on to any Philly(ish) area refs you know.  They're pretty hard up, since there's the Dallas NAC and some big meet at Vassar.

Rough draft of intro done!  Weighs in at 34 pages right now, which will probably grow a bit in edits, and which is a bit longer than I expected.  My punch list is 21 items right now, some of which need some pretty extensive reading, but who the hell cares?  WAHOOOOOO ( Read more... )

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Hrmph.

ETA: This is a pretty good approximation of my thoughts on the matter.