Musings on my research

Sep 28, 2009 22:34

1. Why did I decide to insert stuff about gender roles in His Dark Materials into my thesis, two days before my draft is due to my supervisor?
(As a side point, can I talk about Will's "bad-ass" knife in my thesis? I have already called Odysseus the Lone Ranger and mistaken Metatron for Megatron.)

2. There are a lot of bolded sentences throughout this saying things like NEEDS MOAR WORDS and INVISIBLE PARAGRAPH IS INVISIBLE. I really must remember to cut these out before I email my supervisor.
It's just like all the footnotes I had to cut out after I'd sent it to Anne for editing. I cannot put footnotes saying "Land of the Dead Population: 2 Batshit Crazy Monks" in my SRS BZNS research.

3. I wrote about the Harry Potter Septology in one chapter. On reading this, my supervisor looked it up in a dictionary, where it did not exist. Then he googled it. I have been exposed as one of those Internet Fangirls.

4. I am most proud of my paragraph about Valiant by Holly Black. Why did I not write my actual thesis on her? It would have been more coherent.

5. I still haven't got to grips with Joseph Campbell.

6. Hannah gets to put acknowledgements in her thesis. Am bitter. Acknowledgements are my favourite things ever. But then, Hannah is going to be at university until the last bus home every night for this week.

lists, everything is better in lolcat, snape kills dumbledore: research

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