*blink*

As if to make up for last night's total failure to approach PBALG, today I was sitting in the fishbowl, typing away, well, not quite madly, that would imply rapid progress, but as madly as I could muster, and the guy sitting next to me (who I've never seen before, incidentally) starts chatting me up. His name, it transpires, is Shawshank ("You know, like the movie"), he's pre-med, a senior, and his penchant for misusing words ("Is that iPod thing endurable? Like, could you drop it on the ground and soak it in water and stuff?") is almost as endearing as his idea that, if I want to get into publishing after graduation, the best thing for me to do would be to move to New York and get a job working for the New York Times. Or, failing that, start my own newspaper.

How surreal.

Anyway, back to thesisland. I'm aiming for the general vacinity of 50 pages total by the time I go to bed. Won't happen, but I want to get as close as I can.

Trying hard not to look at LJ's timestamp...

Does anyone actually still read these damn things? For the love of god, why?

Okay, new plan. This one actually seems sort of realistic, amazingly.

*Tonight: Get to page 45 (I'm at about 42 1/4 now and I've just recaffeinated, so that's not at all unreasonable).
*Tomorrow: Meet with advisor. I should be able to get enough notes and revision ideas from that meeting to generate another 5 pages tomorrow night, putting me at a nice round 50. Also, talk to advisor about how to go about writing an abstract, about which I am completely clueless.
*Friday: Send out drafts to Proofreading Harem. By the by, it's possible that I will send a few of you smaller pieces to proofread later in the weekend instead of one huge draft on Friday, so that I don't send out the exact same thing to 5 different people and get, for the most part, exactly the same corrections. If any of you are particularly opposed to this idea, or would prefer the long draft to a shorter chapter or vice versa, go ahead and let me know. Also on Friday: Get to work revising Alice argument, particularly making sure that the arguments in my first and second chapter match up.
Weekend: Revise revise revise! Work on conclusion and abstract.
Monday: Should have thesis drafts back from people by then. Do nitpicky proofreading/citation stuff. Finish conclusion and abstract if I haven't already.
Tuesday-Wednesday: Anything that still needs to be done. Do all the "Front Matter" stuff--abstract, table of contents (don't forget to come up with clever chapter names!), short titles, etc. Works Cited/Consulted. I'll probably still be doing some last-minute editing stuff at this point, but hopefully no more major writing.
Thursday: Basically the same thing as Tuesday-Wednesday, but I need to get the fucker bound before I go to bed, even if that means 3AM at Kinko's.
Friday: Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeep for as long as possible. Turn in two bound copies to the English department before 4:30, eat some pizza at the little reception thingy, go to bar, get happy. Come home and sleep for at least 12 hours.

Again, life has a way of not going according to plan, but this seems--almost--doable.

Hi ho, hi ho, it's back to work I go.

Hmm.

Posting this now because I'm pretty sure that if I wait until tomorrow, all evidence will be gone...

I just got up to go to the bathroom and discovered that someone has plastered Angell Hall with bright pink flyers that say:

BEWARE!!

Professor Raymond MacDowell
*Seduces students
*Knowingly transmits STDs

Avoid at all costs!

...with a picture of the guy in the center.

I wonder what the story is behind that.

44 1/2 pages

Eh. Close enough. My second chapter is now at 12 1/2 pages--the combination of additional content and heavy revision should get me to 20 pages in the next couple days without much trouble, I think.

I go kathunk now.

EDIT: Note to self--must remember to buy a hardback copy of Coraline for my advisor and get it signed for her at Penguicon. She deserves it after the crap she's put up with from me over the past six months or so.