Productivity!

[icepixie]

Ways to know you've taken your digestion metaphor too far:"These non-English British people will not go quietly into that good colon."

*headdesk* Yeah, I'll be deleting that before I turn it in. Right now it's going to sit there and amuse me.

(I have roughly fifteen pages done! I say roughly because I'm writing it in single-space, and I've hit the middle of page eight, but I have some set-off quotes that won't be double-spaced once I switch it. And I also have one section on Glendower that's basically a collection of bullet points rather than actual paragraphs, but anyway. Fifteen pages! I think I'll need five to seven more to finish it up, which I should totally be able to do today and tomorrow. WIN.)

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[alto2.livejournal.com]

I have some set-off quotes that won't be double-spaced once I switch it.

Were you also taught that long quotes aren't double-spaced? I'm so sure that I was, and I think one of the other teachers on the hall (the one who's my age!) was as well. I was confused when a student brought me a paper for her AP course a few weeks ago and her handout saying that long quotes should be double-spaced (and not indented on the right, which I could also swear I was told to do). Checked the 6th ed. MLA handbook, which agreed with her sheet, then came home and checked my 3rd ed (which was current when I graduated high school) and it also agreed! I am so confused, because I could swear I learned to single-space long quotes--and because I've done it that way for three semesters of grad school and no one has so much as batted an eye.

So I'm terribly curious to know if others were taught the same thing as me, or if I'm just losing my mind and hallucinating these memories...