*races across the finish line*

[icepixie]

The paper is done! DONE, I SAY! Well, it still needs about four to six hours of revision, but I need a few days away from it before I can do that, so that's for later this week.

It weighs in at a few lines less than twenty-one pages. My works cited page is in fact two pages, including seventeen works cited and three more works consulted, because one cannot write a paper on the Henriad without in some way acknowledging Greenblatt's "Invisible Bullets," one just can't.

ETA: I just realized how much this reads like a birth announcement. Hmm.

Comments

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! :D

[icepixie]

Thanks!

[asinpterodactyl.livejournal.com]

Hey, I just finished a paper myself! Let's celebrate together!

*dons silly hat*

[icepixie]

Yes, let's!

*also dons silly and and dances around*

[asinpterodactyl.livejournal.com]

*prances about like a ninny*

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Wooooo!

I'm always impressed by people who finish papers early enough to edit them. I still can't. ^_^

[icepixie]

I'm always impressed by people who finish papers early enough to edit them. I still can't. ^_^

Well, I can't turn this in yet, because half of my footnotes still trail off into a line of asterisks. Come to think of it, at least one of my paragraphs does as well. :D

And if you're getting A's on all your papers and whatnot, I rather doubt you have to worry about finishing them in time to edit...

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, yeah. I'm always afraid I'll turn in a paper that still says, "As [dude] says in his [year] article, [quotation]. This [noun from quotation] is evident in mm. [x], where the low strings [do something]."

But: ahhh, footnotes. How I've missed you.

[icepixie]

Ahhh, yeah. I'm always afraid I'll turn in a paper that still says, "As [dude] says in his [year] article, [quotation]. This [noun from quotation] is evident in mm. [x], where the low strings [do something]."

This is my secret fear. And it's why I give myself time to edit.

But: ahhh, footnotes. How I've missed you.

It's weird to be in a position to actually use them when writing an MLA-style paper. I've finally hit the point in my academic career where I can have things like, "[xyz] [page numbers] has an interesting discussion of [something related to what I'm discussing but which I don't want to quote]," or "For a critical overview of [whatever issue I'm touching on], see [XYZ]."

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

I've finally hit the point in my academic career where I can have things like, "[xyz] [page numbers] has an interesting discussion of [something related to what I'm discussing but which I don't want to quote]," or "For a critical overview of [whatever issue I'm touching on], see [XYZ]."

It's nice, isn't it? (I'm hitting a new low by footnoting critical discussions of Whitman in a music paper.)

[icepixie]

(I'm hitting a new low by footnoting critical discussions of Whitman in a music paper.)

Personally, I would call that a high.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

In the 420 sense, sure.

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your birthing!

[icepixie]

I should tie it up with a little pink-or-blue bow.

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Knit it booties!