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Oct. 27th, 2003 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesIt rained yesterday. It's looking like it'll be a wet winter. (Yes, I know it's not winter yet and I'm jumping to conclusions.)
It's very difficult to get excited about writing a paper when most of the sources you need and/or want are either missing or unhelpful. You'd think the guy who came up with the theory of dynamic equivalence would have written more about it than the mere fact that it exists, wouldn't you?
I also, this weekend, fixed most of the problems with my Research & Writing paper. I still have two or three things to fix, but that won't take forever and the revisions aren't due until next Monday anyway. I didn't particularly like this paper in its original version, but I really don't like it now. It'sdefinitely better than it was, but I'm tired of it.
On to less depressing stuff...Dave Barry, back when he was still writing hysterically funny stuff, wrote a piece called "Garbage Scan" about not being able to find anything worth listening to on his car radio, and putting it on Scan, and how everything ran together grammatically and made perfect nonsense. That happened to me yesterday. I had the TV on, but wasn't actually watching it, and I heard a Food Network programming commercial run into a local car dealership commercial in such a way that it sounded like you should ask the car dealership for advice on cooking a turkey.
I think it's a sign of being in the Midwest that you can't buy a quart of buttermilk. I had to buy a half gallon. Fortunately I like buttermilk, so it's not a horrible thing.
I have to decide what I'm going to do with the time between Christmas and Arisia. I know I want to be in Boston for the week before Arisia, but that still leaves me a week in between in which I'll be doing nothing, and it would be nice if I could come up with a way to make some money that week. Hmm, there's also about a week between the end of exams and Christmas...
Hooray, the sun is coming out! Maybe now I'll actually wake up a bit. It's been a very groggy morning so far.
It's very difficult to get excited about writing a paper when most of the sources you need and/or want are either missing or unhelpful. You'd think the guy who came up with the theory of dynamic equivalence would have written more about it than the mere fact that it exists, wouldn't you?
I also, this weekend, fixed most of the problems with my Research & Writing paper. I still have two or three things to fix, but that won't take forever and the revisions aren't due until next Monday anyway. I didn't particularly like this paper in its original version, but I really don't like it now. It'sdefinitely better than it was, but I'm tired of it.
On to less depressing stuff...Dave Barry, back when he was still writing hysterically funny stuff, wrote a piece called "Garbage Scan" about not being able to find anything worth listening to on his car radio, and putting it on Scan, and how everything ran together grammatically and made perfect nonsense. That happened to me yesterday. I had the TV on, but wasn't actually watching it, and I heard a Food Network programming commercial run into a local car dealership commercial in such a way that it sounded like you should ask the car dealership for advice on cooking a turkey.
I think it's a sign of being in the Midwest that you can't buy a quart of buttermilk. I had to buy a half gallon. Fortunately I like buttermilk, so it's not a horrible thing.
I have to decide what I'm going to do with the time between Christmas and Arisia. I know I want to be in Boston for the week before Arisia, but that still leaves me a week in between in which I'll be doing nothing, and it would be nice if I could come up with a way to make some money that week. Hmm, there's also about a week between the end of exams and Christmas...
Hooray, the sun is coming out! Maybe now I'll actually wake up a bit. It's been a very groggy morning so far.
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