So I watched 10 episodes of Battlestar Galactica today

[guanin]

I really needed the break, okay? Seriously. This morning my brain felt like it was melting after getting a full night's sleep. And I really am good for time. I have 18 days left. I've got 9,040 words out of 11,600ish, because I don't want to toe the line to closely to the 12,000 mark due to the danger of going even one word overboard (5 marks off). I can get those final words in 4 days. Then revision, sending it to dad so he can weed out unacademic language, and ta da! And I did get some work done today. I did the appendix. Which took forever (and was incredibly boring).

By the way, have I mentioned that I hate living near skunks? Yeesh. Every single night here you smell one. I did not miss that.

Comments

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Hey, 9,040 words is fantastic, much more than I'd ever be able to devote to something academic. And you have been working very hard. So you totally deserve a break to enjoy a new show.

Skunks are bad, but at least they're not as heart-stoppingly terrifying as cicadas. Which we have. Which fly at your head. Yeah...

[guanin.livejournal.com]

The whole thing is the equivalent of four essays, one of which alone leaves me completely exhausted, so writing four back to back is... yeah, pretty much insane. I never want to do anything like this again. It's too much.

Luckily I missed the summer in which cicadas invaded around here, but I hear that they were driving everybody crazy.