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First Paper
Dec. 31st, 2010 07:32 pm* So I have a paper due the 17th of Jan, and my prof finally deigns to meet with me and luuuuuuuurves my topic: v. good. Then he's like 'you can knock out Copperfield and reread some Milne, a Frost poem, and Proust's Swan's Way, three articles of Benjamin, some Laplanche, some Freud, and then write 6,000 words in like, three weeks, right?'
* Gulp.
* I DID NOT REALIZE COPPERFIELD WAS 900 ODD PAGES, WTF, PROF?
* I thought we were homies.
* :(
* BUT I TOTALLY CAN, MAYBE. I could scale down and /not/ reread the Proust, which would be bad because then I'm overloaded on texts-originally-in-English, but good because I'd /have/ to deal with the Proust being read in translation, and guys, I have /no idea/ how to reckon with that, short of like, re-reading a /different/ version of Swan's way against the one I have. Which--maybe.
* My schedule is:
1. Complete Copperfield within the next days (currently at 265 of 882 (not including the footnotes and biographical material I'll want to glance over for that). Makes notes /as I go/.
2. Plan a day for re-reading Milne and reading the Frost. Make notes.
3. Plan a day for finishing the Laplanche and the Freud. Make notes.
4. Make notes on the Benjammin.
5. BY JANUARY SEVENTH be working on writing, leaving ten solid days to write and revise the 5,000-6,000 word piece. The word limit is not much, but I want it to go through the Prof and at least two betas/revisions. It should get a Distinction.
* Cambridge PhD aps are ideally due the 15th of Jan, but CAN be accepted late.
* ...guess what's getting turned in late. Priorities, Cam-bitches.
* Gulp.
* I DID NOT REALIZE COPPERFIELD WAS 900 ODD PAGES, WTF, PROF?
* I thought we were homies.
* :(
* BUT I TOTALLY CAN, MAYBE. I could scale down and /not/ reread the Proust, which would be bad because then I'm overloaded on texts-originally-in-English, but good because I'd /have/ to deal with the Proust being read in translation, and guys, I have /no idea/ how to reckon with that, short of like, re-reading a /different/ version of Swan's way against the one I have. Which--maybe.
* My schedule is:
1. Complete Copperfield within the next days (currently at 265 of 882 (not including the footnotes and biographical material I'll want to glance over for that). Makes notes /as I go/.
2. Plan a day for re-reading Milne and reading the Frost. Make notes.
3. Plan a day for finishing the Laplanche and the Freud. Make notes.
4. Make notes on the Benjammin.
5. BY JANUARY SEVENTH be working on writing, leaving ten solid days to write and revise the 5,000-6,000 word piece. The word limit is not much, but I want it to go through the Prof and at least two betas/revisions. It should get a Distinction.
* Cambridge PhD aps are ideally due the 15th of Jan, but CAN be accepted late.
* ...guess what's getting turned in late. Priorities, Cam-bitches.
