procrastination
Jan. 14th, 2004 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jawnbcI'm in my loverly office @ work1 (there's a work2 too), where I have on a sweatshirt because the air con is sew fookin' cold. If I leave my office, off comes the sweatshirt, because the common areas and outside are sew fookin' hot. And not in a Nelly it's-gettin'-hot-in-herre-take-off-all-your-clothes kinda way.
A while back I committed to writing a couple of dictionary entries. This is an academic/scholarly dictionary, more about terms and concepts than word definitions. One of the entries--on marginality--is interesting, fun and challenging. The other--on facilitation--is pedantic and plate. Paradoxically the latter is to be 2500 words and the former 1500. Were it up to me I'd swap those lengths. But it ain't, thus so it shall be. Yesterday they were outlined and framed; today I'll edit and grind and cram them into penultimate (or pen-penultimate) form. Due date: 15 January, in Canada, electronically. It need also be said that academic work--at least substantive academic writing, IMHO--requires many hours of think-work, before Word is booted up and reams of paper are ingested. In that sense I've been working on these for many months. If anyone leading a pathetic and boring life is interested in either of these entries--for a peruse more than feedback--lemme know, eh?
OK here's the plan: A good thorough edit through each, then off to McDo for lunch, then more editing. Then pick up dry cleaning on the way home, then a quiet evening with the boyfriend. Who makes me feel like a man every day. Often a dilated one.
A while back I committed to writing a couple of dictionary entries. This is an academic/scholarly dictionary, more about terms and concepts than word definitions. One of the entries--on marginality--is interesting, fun and challenging. The other--on facilitation--is pedantic and plate. Paradoxically the latter is to be 2500 words and the former 1500. Were it up to me I'd swap those lengths. But it ain't, thus so it shall be. Yesterday they were outlined and framed; today I'll edit and grind and cram them into penultimate (or pen-penultimate) form. Due date: 15 January, in Canada, electronically. It need also be said that academic work--at least substantive academic writing, IMHO--requires many hours of think-work, before Word is booted up and reams of paper are ingested. In that sense I've been working on these for many months. If anyone leading a pathetic and boring life is interested in either of these entries--for a peruse more than feedback--lemme know, eh?
OK here's the plan: A good thorough edit through each, then off to McDo for lunch, then more editing. Then pick up dry cleaning on the way home, then a quiet evening with the boyfriend. Who makes me feel like a man every day. Often a dilated one.
