I just shot my research paper down to Bloomington via the wonders of the Internet. A hugely frustrating experience. I literally worked on it all day yesterday, from 7:00 AM until 1:30 AM this morning, and had almost nothing to show for it. I’d crank out 5-600 words in a section, decide I hated it, delete it all, then move to another section and repeat. At 10:00 PM last night I literally had less words saved than I had when I cracked open the Powerbook in the morning. I managed to get about 6000 words together, though, and while I think it’s probably the worst paper I’ve ever written that I’ve actually put great effort into, it is now done.<\/p>\n
Now I have six days off before the summer session starts and I spend three days a week in B-town studying how to write for magazines. Assuming there is no baby this week (knock knock!), I’m even going to read a book for pleasure for the first time since January! Whoo-hoo! Expect a reader’s notebook before next week. Also, with Pearl Jam’s new album dropping today (It arrived in my mailbox Friday, after I left for KC, and I’ve not had a chance to really listen yet), I’ve got a little something about them I’ve been working on for awhile. But for now, a nap is in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just shot my research paper down to Bloomington via the wonders of the Internet. A hugely frustrating experience. I literally worked on it all day yesterday, from 7:00 AM until 1:30 AM this morning, and had almost nothing to show for it. I’d crank out 5-600 words in a section, decide I hated it, delete it all, then move to another section and repeat. At 10:00 PM last night I literally had less words saved than I had when I cracked open the Powerbook in the morning. I managed to get about 6000 words together, though, and while I think it’s probably the worst paper I’ve ever written that I’ve actually put great effort into, it is now done. Now I have six days off before the summer session starts and I spend three days a week in B-town studying how to write for magazines. Assuming there is no baby this week (knock knock!), I’m even going to read a book for pleasure for the first time since January! Whoo-hoo! Expect a reader’s notebook before next week. Also, with Pearl Jam’s new album dropping today (It arrived in my mailbox Friday, after I left for KC, and I’ve not had a chance to really listen yet), I’ve got a little something about them I’ve been working on for awhile. But for now, a nap is in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grad-school"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15388,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/15388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}