Symptoms of sickness
My prof e-mailed me this afternoon with a response. He said it was done through a cough-syrup haze, but he tried his best. He was happy that I had something written, since just getting it down on paper is apparently the hardest part. He's always too nice, but that's why I like him. I thought he was going to be upset that I didn't take his advice and slacked off and then sent him a half-baked proposal. But he's my professor, and according to him he's just a figment of my imagination, and he's the best.
So my proposal is now half corrected by me. I took the abstract out, and I'm going to write it at the end. The statement of significance was revised with suggestions from my prof. The whole middle - well - it was difficult. That's why it's only half done. Ms. Milne, my grade 12 English teacher would be so proud of me. I got the book from grade 12 on essay writing, and I wrote down key points. Now I'm working on linking all my sentences, giving transition sentences and making it all be more coherent. The problem? I'm sick... but not sick in an obvious way. Yeah, half my nose is stuffy. I feel hot but don't have a fever, in fact my temperature always lands below 98.6, somewhere around 98.0. I am so tired, even though I got 10 hours of sleep and then had a 2 hour nap. The sickness is all in my head - not that it's psychological, it's just my head feels like it's in a cloud of cotton. The world seems muffled and I keep not making sense. I fear for my proposal.
But I don't think I told you the good news yet. A few days ago, there was another tragic stranding of Humboldt squid. Ok, that's not the good part, that's the sad part. The good part is that Josie said she would get me stomachs along with measurements! Now I will have data from two strandings. Oh the ecological implications! So the lab part of my project is looking good. I put a rather large stomach in ethanol to defrost a few days ago and I can't wait to open it, but I have to do this proposal, two essay proposals, two midterms, and several assignments in the next two weeks and then it's lab time! Well, I'm super excited.
Ok, I've just checked and my proposal has not corrected itself, so I better get back to that.
So my proposal is now half corrected by me. I took the abstract out, and I'm going to write it at the end. The statement of significance was revised with suggestions from my prof. The whole middle - well - it was difficult. That's why it's only half done. Ms. Milne, my grade 12 English teacher would be so proud of me. I got the book from grade 12 on essay writing, and I wrote down key points. Now I'm working on linking all my sentences, giving transition sentences and making it all be more coherent. The problem? I'm sick... but not sick in an obvious way. Yeah, half my nose is stuffy. I feel hot but don't have a fever, in fact my temperature always lands below 98.6, somewhere around 98.0. I am so tired, even though I got 10 hours of sleep and then had a 2 hour nap. The sickness is all in my head - not that it's psychological, it's just my head feels like it's in a cloud of cotton. The world seems muffled and I keep not making sense. I fear for my proposal.
But I don't think I told you the good news yet. A few days ago, there was another tragic stranding of Humboldt squid. Ok, that's not the good part, that's the sad part. The good part is that Josie said she would get me stomachs along with measurements! Now I will have data from two strandings. Oh the ecological implications! So the lab part of my project is looking good. I put a rather large stomach in ethanol to defrost a few days ago and I can't wait to open it, but I have to do this proposal, two essay proposals, two midterms, and several assignments in the next two weeks and then it's lab time! Well, I'm super excited.
Ok, I've just checked and my proposal has not corrected itself, so I better get back to that.