What's making you happy today?

[Clodfobble]

Sweet! Make sure you do it better than he did... I hear that dude was such a slacker, he was always on some messageboard during work hours.

[casimendocina]

I reckon....now I would never spend my workhours doing such a thing.

[lookout123]

39 straight rounds dead through the X from 25 feet. felt good.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by monster

hehe Americans say yarn where Brits would say wool ....sounded so old fashioned and quaint when I first heard it. it funny, because I think that about a few word, phrases and customs ....and yet that the stereotypical New American view of Olde England. it amuses me (in a good way) the way the two countries are on different points of the trend cycle on so many things.

We also say "wool" when referring to yarn. I remember the first bathroom graffiti I saw as a kid that I thought was funny: Someone had written "My mother made me a homosexual" below it someone else wrote "If I buy her the wool will she make me one too?"

We also used yarn to mean story a lot. But then my mom is English/Scots so, who the fuck knows what the hell was going on.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Sweet! Make sure you do it better than he did... I hear that dude was such a slacker, he was always on some messageboard during work hours.

Probably downloading bittorrents too.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by lookout123

39 straight rounds dead through the X from 25 feet. felt good.

Not for the X, I imagine.

I'm to busy in the cellar to download torrents.

Actually, one of our colleagues had been doing that until she got "the message" from the IT department.

[Cloud]

I'm excited! I think I'm going to drive up to ABQ on Saturday for more piercings!

Nothing like a few new holes for Christmas!

[Sundae]

Misfits is on again tonight.
And I have bread & cheese for supper.

I like Thursdays.

[DanaC]

Well...I was supposed to turn up at my supervisor's tomorrow with a 'complete' first chapter. I won't be doing this: it still needs a conclusion. I have however managed to get 5500+ words down on paper...albeit they're not right good. It needs extensive rewriting, and I am not much looking forward to delivering the cartload of caveats and disclaimers that will accompany this first draft...

BUT... a week ago I was struggling to see my way past 1000 words, and wondering what the fuck I am doing. The first draft is as rough as sandpaper and I am far from proud of it (really isn't up to my usual standards at all). But the process has been absolutely invaluable. I think i know how to rewrite it to a much better standard. In the process of writing I have rediscovered my 'voice' albeit a little late for tomorrow. I will be spending a good amount of the Christmas break rewriting this beast but at least now I feel I have some sort of a clue. I am sooo grateful to my supervisor for setting me this deadline (even though i haven't quite hit the target). Much better to go through that hell before I have to produce a finished and polished product.

The last couple of weeks have been a nightmare. I lost all confidence in my ability to write cogently. Hell, I lost confidence in my ability to think cogently lol. Some of that lack of confidence comes through in the work I've done, but at least I know why and I think I know how to make it better. Right now, i don't think it'd pass muster as a second year undergrad piece of work; but with a rewite I think it has the potential to be rather good.

More importantly, the process of writing this first chapter has broken me into my subject. I can see the rest of the thesis taking shape now, in my mind's eye. Much less frightening that an amorphous mass of unclear, and ranging ideas that don't quite fit together :P

This was always going to be one of the most difficult parts of the thesis: the military side of a military-domestic equation. If I can get this right, the rest will flow.

I'm slightly annoyed at myself for not getting to grips with this sooner, and so not managing to write a conclusion. But right now, at a little after midnight, I'm just pleased there's enough to take with me in the morning. And I am ecstatic that i can now go to bed :P

[toranokaze]

Way to go Dana.

Well after five years, and over twenty thousand dollars, I am a full Bachelor of Science.

[ZenGum]

Congraduations Tiger!

Well done Dana, it sounds like your supervisor knows what they are doing as a supervisor. I am confident that you'll get that thesis-beast in a headlock before it is due. (Probably about 12 hours before it is due, but that will do.)

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Congraduations Tiger!

Well done Dana, it sounds like your supervisor knows what they are doing as a supervisor. I am confident that you'll get that thesis-beast in a headlock before it is due. (Probably about 12 hours before it is due, but that will do.)

*grins* he knows what he's doing, and he knows me. Which is great, because I can't play him.

Tora, way to go! That's totally awesome. You're full of good and cheering news

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

I am confident that you'll get that thesis-beast in a headlock before it is due. (Probably about 12 hours before it is due, but that will do.)

Yeah, 12 hours or more. Then she'll watch 3 episodes of Dr Who, take Pilau for a walk, and screw around in the Cellar, for 11.5 hours.

[DanaC]

Ohhhhhh.....you know me so well lol

[toranokaze]

an evening (or morning) well spent