Countdown:
24 hours and 12 minutes to my manumission from Mayan. Seven pages into a 5 to 15 page paper. Still have things to say, and feel ridiculously, foolishly clever for having anything to say at all. If you had told me in highschool that I'd be writing graduate papers about mythology, text structure, and word choice I probably would have squealed with
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Once it's finished and handed in, you'll have to let us know how it turned out!
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I think it's pretty decent, really. It's just a case of balancing out the knowledge that you're playing in somebody else's sandbox with the silly, liberating feeling of writing about a text (no, really, the choice of this verb over that one is really significant! It means they're trying to emphasize the difference between a divine birth and a regular birth! Trust me!). And of busting my ass putting together 16 pages of figures in adobe InDesign (and of course, I just realized that I number the last figure wrong. Oh well.)
And it just occurred to me to appreciate the irony of writing a paper about divine births right before Xmas. . . .
Two courses left to go.
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