Waffling... drama and food
Nov. 5th, 2007 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kennahijjaThere's one busy weekend behind me...
A bit over a year ago, me and random acquaintance (RA) had the following conversation:
RA: Hey, would you mind proof-reading my thesis once it's done? Not for subject matter (which is about 200 sea miles outside my intellectual comfort zone), just grammar, commas, that sort of thing?
ME (being me...): Sure. Throw it at me whenever it's ready.
(fastforward to one-and-a-half weeks ago)
RA: Remember that thesis? Here it is! (plonks into inbox) Um... could you do it in a week? It's... a wee bit late.
ME: Sure. (I mean, that's over a week, even if it's 100+ pages).
(fastforward to last Friday night, me in bed about to go to sleep)
ME (being me): The thesis! Oh *f**k*!
Spent most of Saturday and all of Sunday night editing, realising that my grip on German commas wasn't helped by an all-English environment. But on the upside, I shoved in a nice little break trip to the National Gallery on Sunday - not much sleep as a consequence, but well... At least it's off my back now :).
That said, this lunchtime I experienced 'treacle tart' for the first time firsthand and outside a HP book. Which was an interesting experience. It doesn't even taste bad (though I failed to figure out what it might have been made of). But the consistency?!? I expected sticky, but not *this* sticky... Probably not an experience to be repeated ;).
Oh, and if anyone has a surefire recipe on how to get yourself to write when you're tired and un-inspired and would rather do anything else, do share!
A bit over a year ago, me and random acquaintance (RA) had the following conversation:
RA: Hey, would you mind proof-reading my thesis once it's done? Not for subject matter (which is about 200 sea miles outside my intellectual comfort zone), just grammar, commas, that sort of thing?
ME (being me...): Sure. Throw it at me whenever it's ready.
(fastforward to one-and-a-half weeks ago)
RA: Remember that thesis? Here it is! (plonks into inbox) Um... could you do it in a week? It's... a wee bit late.
ME: Sure. (I mean, that's over a week, even if it's 100+ pages).
(fastforward to last Friday night, me in bed about to go to sleep)
ME (being me): The thesis! Oh *f**k*!
Spent most of Saturday and all of Sunday night editing, realising that my grip on German commas wasn't helped by an all-English environment. But on the upside, I shoved in a nice little break trip to the National Gallery on Sunday - not much sleep as a consequence, but well... At least it's off my back now :).
That said, this lunchtime I experienced 'treacle tart' for the first time firsthand and outside a HP book. Which was an interesting experience. It doesn't even taste bad (though I failed to figure out what it might have been made of). But the consistency?!? I expected sticky, but not *this* sticky... Probably not an experience to be repeated ;).
Oh, and if anyone has a surefire recipe on how to get yourself to write when you're tired and un-inspired and would rather do anything else, do share!
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Date: 2007-11-05 07:32 pm (UTC)You mean you actually know the rules and don't just put them wherever it looks good?
Ergh, my natural sciences thingy is showing, I suppose. *hugs English*
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Date: 2007-11-05 07:39 pm (UTC)I wouldn't go that far... I just have a pretty good comma instinct that seems to agree with the rules. *hugs English* There, commas actually make sense!
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Date: 2007-11-05 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-06 06:15 pm (UTC)Alcohol in any shape or form will put me right to sleep (not that I have any...). Otherwise, Baileys in real coffee (not that I have any either...) would be my first recourse ;).
Heh - 'vottle' would make a nice measurement unit, don't you think?
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Date: 2007-11-05 07:51 pm (UTC)