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[guanin]

If I ever express the determination to get a PhD, punch me. God, writing a thesis sucks. Would someone please explain to me what the hell is the sodding point of changing a period in the bibliography into a coma in the footnote? Why is this asinine punctuation so important? It's not like it's grammatically relevant. It doesn't give the reader any more or less information about the source. It's one of the most pointless things I've ever seen in my life and yet you get marks off if you get it wrong. *crawls into a hole and cries* I hate this thing. It's a good thing I actually care about the subject.

I really hope no one gets me clothes for my birthday. No one in my family seems to have any sense about the clothes I like. And yet despite pointing out every time they see me that I've lost weight even when I've gained weight (I don't know), somehow what they get me is always two sizes too big. Yet I can't seem to find the polite way of telling them not to buy me clothes. Please. Do not buy me clothes. On a good full day of shopping, I might get two shirts. That's how picky I am (of course, I often find more shirts I like than just two, but they're a bit out of my price range; another reason why I need to be mom and make my own clothes already).

I want to make icons. Unfortunately, I can't justify the time. Damn.

I hear over in ecclescult that CE shows up in a scene with a waistcoat (ETA: in GI Joe; me brain dead). I think I melted in my chair a bit.

I bought a biography of the fourth Duke of Norfolk, i. e. the guy CE played in Elizabeth. It wasn't that expensive. Just 9 pounds. That’s a pretty fantastic deal for an out of print history book, the average price of which seems to be $30 if you don't care for it that much or $50 and above if you do. Not that I have a very high opinion of this guy since you really can't get any stupider than conspiring behind the Queen's back, getting caught, not getting executed only because for some reason the Queen didn't want to kill you, then going right back into the conspiracy when it was so obvious that you were going to get caught again and this time no excuse was going to keep the axe from your neck. *shakes head* Complete idiocy.

I'm going to go watch something simple now because my brain is mush. And I only wrote 550 words. Which is cool. I'm on schedule. But my brain shouldn't hurt this much.

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I hear over in [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] that CE shows up in a scene with a waistcoat. I think I melted in my chair a bit.

You heard right, my friend. There is a waistcoat. It is purple. He looks...rather on the dashing side in it, although admittedly it's not my favorite look of his. In the movie, definitely. Overall, eh.

I'm sorry the thesis is giving you trouble. Citations are hell, especially. There's so many different formats and I never get them right, no matter what I do.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Mmm. I'm still not sure that I'm going to run out to see this, though. I might wait until it gets to the cheap theatre. Or I might give in. I'm not sure.

It's actually going a lot more smoothly than I expected. And by smooth I mean horribly convoluted with little details that need double checking all over the place. But better than the other Aztec religion ones I wrote.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Ugh, citations are really ridiculous in their tiny little details that are absolutely crucial you get right, for no apparent reason. With luck you may end up memorizing the correct way to do them, so at least you won't have to worry about that.

Getting clothes as presents is almost uniformly awful. I remember last Christmas, Mom got me this truly unpleasant pink sweater. Pink! Not that I expect you to know this, but I never wear pink. Mom said it was purple. She was wrong.

I hear over in ecclescult that CE shows up in a scene with a waistcoat. I think I melted in my chair a bit.
Hee, well, if you decide you want to suffer through go see GI Joe, I say wait until you can do it as cheaply as possible. Yeah, CE may look pretty sleek, but in hardly enough scenes to make it all that worthwhile.

The bio of Norfolk IV sounds pretty cool. Let me know how it is, and if you find out anything interesting.

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They're awful. Who invented these things? *throws evil eye* I've got the Chicago style miniguide onscreen half the time just to rememebr where a coma goes.

I hate it so much. Last Christmas, all I got was clothes. All awful. *sigh* At least dad decided to give me money afterward to make up for them. Ugh, I hate pink, too. I never wear it, either. I don't even like seeing it on other people, which gets problematic.

I'll probably wait till the cheap theatre. Or perhaps until I can have free use of a fast forward button.

The title is Tudor Tragedy, which already gives me an idea about the angle the biographer is taking. And part of his life was tragic. His three wives all died in childbirth. That's harsh.