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Well, that was a rather unproductive Friday. I spent a lot of time achieving not much on the Thesis. Standardizing Guelderland/Gelderland was the height of my acomplishment....
I went through boxes and folders and heaps and heaplets of old photos, trying to find some images.... but didn't. I did find a picture of my little niece Helen, taken when she was about 2 (i.e. about the time we were married). She gets married next month, so I added that one to the pathetically small batch to scan for the thesis.
Read the regulations for submission, and realise that I am probably going to get into serious trouble as I am NOT planning to print out the images. The regulations are a bit vague: they say photographs 'should if possible' be on A4 paper. It's probably not the end of the world. They seem to have a contingency for recieving Bad Theses, slinging it back at students and giving them a month to sort out the formatting errors.
The word count is just So Much of a Problem that I give up. Tightening up where it is beneficial will still be done ... but there is no way I can fit the horrendous number of words that my illustrations an bibliography include inside a 90k limit and have anything sensible left. The fact that without these hangers-on, I am looking at 96k or so is I feel 'within tolerance'. If they think otherwise, fine, I'll take referral, and present them with just a bit of the thesis. Probably just looking at the unstable substrates, the fire and new town stuff, and adoption of the technique and non adoption. I.e. cut out chapters 7 and 8 altogether. Or maybe just do the literacy stuff. Sorted. Except it's infuriating because it's a waste of time: my examiners can perfectly well imagine what I would cut out to get down to the word limit (I would do this now, given 3 months, rather than 2 weeks!).
Oh well *looks at Radio Times* oh, it's QI 'The quiz where points are awarded for the answers'. Well, now I look again, there _is_ a second half to the sentence.
I went through boxes and folders and heaps and heaplets of old photos, trying to find some images.... but didn't. I did find a picture of my little niece Helen, taken when she was about 2 (i.e. about the time we were married). She gets married next month, so I added that one to the pathetically small batch to scan for the thesis.
Read the regulations for submission, and realise that I am probably going to get into serious trouble as I am NOT planning to print out the images. The regulations are a bit vague: they say photographs 'should if possible' be on A4 paper. It's probably not the end of the world. They seem to have a contingency for recieving Bad Theses, slinging it back at students and giving them a month to sort out the formatting errors.
The word count is just So Much of a Problem that I give up. Tightening up where it is beneficial will still be done ... but there is no way I can fit the horrendous number of words that my illustrations an bibliography include inside a 90k limit and have anything sensible left. The fact that without these hangers-on, I am looking at 96k or so is I feel 'within tolerance'. If they think otherwise, fine, I'll take referral, and present them with just a bit of the thesis. Probably just looking at the unstable substrates, the fire and new town stuff, and adoption of the technique and non adoption. I.e. cut out chapters 7 and 8 altogether. Or maybe just do the literacy stuff. Sorted. Except it's infuriating because it's a waste of time: my examiners can perfectly well imagine what I would cut out to get down to the word limit (I would do this now, given 3 months, rather than 2 weeks!).
Oh well *looks at Radio Times* oh, it's QI 'The quiz where points are awarded for the answers'. Well, now I look again, there _is_ a second half to the sentence.