working, working...

[juldea]

7:30: thesis statement

8:00: rough outline of next few paragraphs, first sentence of first paragraph

8:30: rest of first paragraph (rough) (begin page count: 2/3 page)

I just tore off a piece of cardboard from the kleenex box and it came off in the shape of the state of Indiana...

9:00: second paragraph (rough) (almost 1 1/2 pages)

Break project: My hair is long enough to make pigtails! Well, kinda. More like little hairbrushes on the side of my head. They're really really cute. If my camera were working, I'd take pictures... but it's not.

9:30: Working on third paragraph (rough) (just past 2 pages)

Ahh, if only professors meant, "...including title page and sources," when they gave a page limit. I'd almost be done!

10:00: Finished (rough) (just past 3 pages). Obviously I will have to split down into more paragraphs once quotations and other book information is added, but for now these 5 paragraphs do. :)

12:30: First book scanned, quotations and footnotes added. I didn't pay much attention to making it flow with the rest of the paper yet, I just inserted comments where appropriate. I forgot how much space footnotes take up. (over 4.5 pages)

With that, I'm going to bed. Well, as soon as I reconnect and read my friends' page and email ;)

Comments

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

Wow. I never had to have a title page or footnotes. It sounds so... 1970's to me to have footnotes. What class is this for?

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Title pages have always been what I've done... remember when you showed me the MLA format of putting all your information on the first page, and I was delighted by the space it took up? That's because I've always put that information on a front page instead.

As for footnotes, I remember this particular professor likes them, and I'm doing all I can. ;) This is for the Modern Middle East class, HIST 3950.

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

I don't remember that specifically, but I like it too. ;)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Hehe. It sticks out in my mind; I was very happy. I might rewrite this one to be in the same format, if I can find instructions online.

[flyingindie.livejournal.com]

I have discovered that most music and art papers require footnotes. They're all about Turabian, for some reason.

[dayeaux.livejournal.com]

Indiana, eh? Sucky state. Hear there's a decent college there, though. If you don't mind nazi-like religious fanatics running certain male dorms. The weather sucks monkey balls, though.

Good luck on getting it all together. I have confidence in you.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

You can't talk about sucking weather before coming to Boston. We're supposed to get EIGHTY INCHES of snow in the month of January.

EIGHTY INCHES

That's like... over six and a half feet.

I hope it's not true. Jim read it in the farmer's almanac.

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

Well, Boston is cold and snowy. Duh? It's like me moving to Texas and being upset about all the 100+ degree days in summer. I'm sure I'd bitch too, but really, I know how hot Texas is, and I'm sure you knew that Boston would be cold, right?

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Right. I knew there would be cold and snow in Boston. But eighty inches is, to me, excessive. Actually, to everyone it's excessive. Even people who live in Boston. So I reserve the right to bitch about it.

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess I don't see the functional difference between a lot of snow and a LOT of snow.

But yeah, bitch away. :)

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

Plus, speaking as someone who has the heart of a 6-year-old when it comes to snow, that sounds like FUN!
Realistically, yeah, it will suck. And it would suck for the real me too. Good thing the real me is having a mild, dry winter so far.