thank you, wikipedia

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having realised i probably need to read thoreau (for tangential course related reasons) i took myself to wikipedia for the Bare Life Facts and feel this is clearly a VITAL one:

Thoreau also wore a neck-beard for many years, which he insisted many women found attractive. However, Louisa May Alcott mentioned to Ralph Waldo Emerson that Thoreau's

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[hellison]

12? that is ... not many! Upper limit on mine is to be 20!

HALP2WEEKSLEFTANDHAVENOTWRITTENHALFOFITHALPHALP

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i know! i have spent the last few months assuming it was 20,000 and then - no!

what's your LOWER limit? i bet you've written more than half of that. also, appendix material can sometimes be JUST as relevant in the main text. not that i have ever cut & pasted such things across... *helpful*

[hellison]

lower limit is 15 and ... yeah between methods/results and what i've done so far of discusson i think i'm on about 9k, the problem is now i have to do the stuff that needs THINKING - discussion and lit review!

hence today spent doing appendices which since it is (in theory) map sciencey stuff is mostly tables, graphs and twenty fucking three individual viewsheds ;p

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twenty fucking three individual viewsheds

ahhh, lovely viewsheds! there's a report done for HS in 2008 on the setting of the WHS that has... a lot of viewsheds. a lot a lot. it's sort of epic, but i can only imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth it must have caused the authors! it includes "sensitive ridgelines" too - which always reminds me that i might have read rather too much porn because oh the mental images. (especially re: garak/bashir!)

[hellison]

and now *i* have mental images of weevils scampering along sensitive rigdelines. Those damn things get EVERYWHERE

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oh thank you so much for reviving THAT image in my mind. years of self-therapy: undone!

[hellison]

Well if I can't get the little bastards out of my head, I don't see why anyone else should ;p

[hellison]

oohooh i just counted, have 10,150 words. There is going to have to be culling at some point. but HALF WAY OMG YAY

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*\u/* (or in - allegedly - esperanto, i skuu vin la pom-poms de la cheerleader!)