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feuervogel) wrote2019-01-27 07:50 pm
feuervogel) wrote2019-01-27 07:50 pm
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*pokes head up from Thesisland*
Hello!
It's about 3 weeks into the semester, and I have a rough draft of one chapter of my thesis and part of another. I need to collect my data once I send the revised draft of chapter 1 to my advisor (and then to another member of my committee for feedback on his specific area). I should also finish the draft of the second chapter and send it off. I almost have enough information to write up the part where I explain how I'm collecting my data. (I just need to try logging in to the corpus server and see if I can access the one I want.) My completed first draft is due around March 1 so my advisor can get feedback to me before spring break starts a week later and I revise it over break and give him a close-to-final version the week of March 17, get final comments, and send it to my committee so I can defend the week of April 1.
It sounds like a lot (it is!), but I already have about half of the 50-page requirement for the linguistics department, and that's without any tables or graphs because I have no data yet. So I'm making good progress. It helps that I write fast, at least when I know what I'm trying to say. Revision is much slower, of course. Most of my revisions so far have been "explain this better" or "add more detail here." (Which is a lot like my fiction revision process...)
I've also drafted and revised a conference abstract that's due by Feb 1. My advisor is going to give me feedback on that again and I'll poke at it until the deadline, probably. I'm trying to get two of my friends who are also looking at old Germanic languages to submit abstracts, too, so we can all go together and be roommates and it'll be fun.
I'm planning on going to 4th St Fantasy this year, partly because the timing is better than for Readercon, and partly because I know so many people who go and speak highly of it that I want to give it a try. I'll need a roommate, and I'm planning on flying from RDU and getting Ben to take care of my cat. And I want to go through my stuff again while I'm there; maybe do some KonMari on that shit. I definitely want to organize a lot of it better and into fewer containers. I might pick up some plastic tubs to put books in, but that would be either a lot of tubs or a few v heavy ones. Which I guess isn't that different from the current box situation but the boxes are already full and cost nothing. But they aren't waterproof or bug-proof, so ... idk.
Will I see you at 4th St? Let me know!
It's about 3 weeks into the semester, and I have a rough draft of one chapter of my thesis and part of another. I need to collect my data once I send the revised draft of chapter 1 to my advisor (and then to another member of my committee for feedback on his specific area). I should also finish the draft of the second chapter and send it off. I almost have enough information to write up the part where I explain how I'm collecting my data. (I just need to try logging in to the corpus server and see if I can access the one I want.) My completed first draft is due around March 1 so my advisor can get feedback to me before spring break starts a week later and I revise it over break and give him a close-to-final version the week of March 17, get final comments, and send it to my committee so I can defend the week of April 1.
It sounds like a lot (it is!), but I already have about half of the 50-page requirement for the linguistics department, and that's without any tables or graphs because I have no data yet. So I'm making good progress. It helps that I write fast, at least when I know what I'm trying to say. Revision is much slower, of course. Most of my revisions so far have been "explain this better" or "add more detail here." (Which is a lot like my fiction revision process...)
I've also drafted and revised a conference abstract that's due by Feb 1. My advisor is going to give me feedback on that again and I'll poke at it until the deadline, probably. I'm trying to get two of my friends who are also looking at old Germanic languages to submit abstracts, too, so we can all go together and be roommates and it'll be fun.
I'm planning on going to 4th St Fantasy this year, partly because the timing is better than for Readercon, and partly because I know so many people who go and speak highly of it that I want to give it a try. I'll need a roommate, and I'm planning on flying from RDU and getting Ben to take care of my cat. And I want to go through my stuff again while I'm there; maybe do some KonMari on that shit. I definitely want to organize a lot of it better and into fewer containers. I might pick up some plastic tubs to put books in, but that would be either a lot of tubs or a few v heavy ones. Which I guess isn't that different from the current box situation but the boxes are already full and cost nothing. But they aren't waterproof or bug-proof, so ... idk.
Will I see you at 4th St? Let me know!
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