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I finally figured out what I want from my parents for Christmas.
Little late, though.
Maybe I'll get it for my birthday.
This goofball index is driving me crazy. Bruster's co-author is the most longwinded man I've ever read and the book is written for people who already have a good degree of understanding of the topic, which does not include me. So in order the make the index, i have to read the chapter first, then again, then maybe once more to really understand it, before I can start chopping it up to decide what's important.
And I think I'm overindexing it. I've already got 300+ entries and I'm not even halfway through chapter one. But I figure it's better to have too many than too few. The extras can always be taken out later. It's hard to know when to stop an index entry too, and I kind of wish that this was a cntrl-f type assignment, where I can just get a list of words and phrases and find them in the text. But it doesn't work that way. It's all a little too discretionary for me, and the idea that I might be doing it wrong freaks me out a little. Of course, the idea that this thing is going to - hopefully - get published and my name might be on it and people might actually look at and use my index freaks me out a lot. But it's kind of cool at the same time.
And really freaking tedious as well. As Inigio Montoya once said, "I hate waiting."
Little late, though.
Maybe I'll get it for my birthday.
This goofball index is driving me crazy. Bruster's co-author is the most longwinded man I've ever read and the book is written for people who already have a good degree of understanding of the topic, which does not include me. So in order the make the index, i have to read the chapter first, then again, then maybe once more to really understand it, before I can start chopping it up to decide what's important.
And I think I'm overindexing it. I've already got 300+ entries and I'm not even halfway through chapter one. But I figure it's better to have too many than too few. The extras can always be taken out later. It's hard to know when to stop an index entry too, and I kind of wish that this was a cntrl-f type assignment, where I can just get a list of words and phrases and find them in the text. But it doesn't work that way. It's all a little too discretionary for me, and the idea that I might be doing it wrong freaks me out a little. Of course, the idea that this thing is going to - hopefully - get published and my name might be on it and people might actually look at and use my index freaks me out a lot. But it's kind of cool at the same time.
And really freaking tedious as well. As Inigio Montoya once said, "I hate waiting."