I'm Alive

I love my internship. I still don't have an apartment, but I am not living in a cardboard box, something a lot of people seem to be worried about. I have a very busy weekend ahead of myself. More later.

I'm Done!

Yay, I've finished my first year of grad school.

Lots more to do before I start my internship on Monday. I probably won't be around for awhile.

It's 3:30 am

I am reminded of that Hilary commercial: It's 3am, who do you want to answer the phone? Well, if anyone is calling, I am still up, fighting with this paper. I have been working on it for what, 18 hours now? I just have to write one more section and then I told myself I could go to bed. I think I am deluding myself though. I plan to edit the paper, run a whole bunch of errands, take a quick trip to campus, pack up my entire apartment, and drive 6 hours on four or so hours of sleep tomorrow. I just do not think it can be done. As much as I really want to head home tomorrow so that I have all day Saturday to run more errands before moving to DC, I just do not know if I can take the drive tomorrow. Especially if I'm already starting to respond to political commercials in my head...

Yay California!

It's about time that more states than my beloved Massachusetts start recognizing something that is so fundamental that we shouldn't even have to discuss it:

California Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Struck Down

Paper Writing OCD

I never realized that I was so particular about how I write my papers until today. I am trying to cut out a few steps, and it is just turning into a disaster. I've never had so much trouble writing even one paragraph in my life. This doesn't bode well for the remaining 19 pages I still have to write in the next 24 hours...

In case you are curious (play along here) this is my process. It is best completed at a rate of one to two steps per day:

1. Find all sources
2. Write outline backbone
   
3. Read sources, adding content to outline as I go along, including all quotes and citations
   
4. Edit outline, rearranging information until I'm happy with it
   
5. Write rough draft
6. Edit 2 times, first time ripping it apart, the second time more for grammar and sentence construction
   
7. Write bibliography (Thank you Word 2007 for doing this automatically)
8. Edit 1 more time
9. Write cover page (I seem to have developed a problem remembering this step lately)
10. Print paper and turn in