It is done! Done, done, done, done, done! *dances ( Read more... )

I have written exactly 311 words of my 3000 word essay - the introduction. Possibly the longest introduction I've ever written, but that's not the point. The words culture or cultural appear in this introduction 10 times. The words Wales or Welsh appear 14 times. I multiplied it up. If those words appear with the same frequency throughout the essay ( Read more... )

Ooh, sunshine! I'm back from home (croydonjohn, I waved at you from the train on the way past Aberdyfi), and Aberystwyth seems to be experiencing some kind of heatwave, which makes a pleasant change! It also gives me a different excuse to eat ice cream, since I can now eat solid food again, which pleases me enormously - apparently the reason I couldn't open ( Read more... )

It's essays that do it, I'm telling you. The last essay screwed up my elbows, and the very thought of this essay has caused one of my wisdom teeth to come through sideways and dig into my cheek, which hurts quite a bit, and somewhat restricts my ability to move my jaw. So I'm on the porridge-and-soup diet till Monday, when I'm off to the dentist. ( Read more... )

Hm. I can't quite decide if that was the weekend from hell or one of the best weekends I've had for a while. My elbows (both of them, oh yes) packed up on Friday night, after I'd typed up about 500 words of my essay. Excellent. Not only could I not type, I couldn't write either, and thus couldn't write out the rest of the essay to give to someone ( Read more... )

Well, I promised myself I wouldn't post today until I'd finished my essay plan. And it's not finished. But I have an excuse - with impeccable timing, I've managed to screw my left elbow up again, to the point where it's hurting constantly anyway, and doing anything with it just makes it hurt more, so I can't write any more tonight. I can type with ( Read more... )

Hm, this essay's strange. Apart from it all getting self-reflexive whenever I try and plan out points (one particular point renders all the other ones meaningless, so it argues against itself), all the books and articles refer to the author of the book I'm writing about by his first name, which is just weird. I mean, you wouldn't write an article ( Read more... )

Library problem solved, thankfully. I had a horrible feeling the "your request could not be processed" bit that the online catalogue did both yesterday and this morning might have something to do with someone else having reserved all the relevant journal issues (essentially got them out of the library, although you can't actually remove them from ( Read more... )

Argh! Stupid National Library. All I want is 8 measly articles to read, and can I request them? Can I heck. "Please contact a librarian," it says. croydonjohn, you're a librarian, any ideas? I would go up and see the librarians at the National Library, but the whole point of their magic computer system being available on the internet is that I can sit here ( Read more... )

I appear to have done everything on my to-do list for the day. Don't quite know what to do now! (Well, yes, I do - either continue the productivity and work on my Writing Project or stop for the day and watch West Wing... no contest, really!) I'll update this first though. I've had a lovely weekend, so this might turn out to be vaguely cheerful, ( Read more... )