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Published On: Dec 09, 2003 10:43 AM
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Published On: Dec 09, 2003 10:43 AM
Finishing the masters paper
Finishing the final paper for my MS degree is like
pulling teeth, but this big ol' molar has GOT TO GO.
My brain is
tapioca.
I've spent the last two days sitting at the laptop, doing my best to unthaw the part of the brain that once dealt with that field called "Statistics". The final paper has 5 more pages on it. (All that effort for 5 pages! I hate writing math stuff.) But we're chugging along.
I'm happy that over the last month I was able to bring in some extra money. (More than half came from the acting gig, believe it or not!) Although part of my brain is screaming that I should be cold-calling and bringing in new clients, the other part of my brain is telling me to shut up and focus on the paper.
And so on I type.
The only break has been mid-day going to the gym. I've found it SUBSTANTIALLY increases the amount of time I can type before my wrist and shoulder start falling apart again. In an hour I'm going to go have dinner with some friends. We've got a traditional Sunday dinner which I try never to miss because this group is a bunch of really cool people. (Alley introduced me to them.) It's good anyway because after 8 hours of math typing I'm really in brain fry.
I was hoping to send a draft off to Hari tomorrow. I've got a lot to still do about the ACAS software Dave and I did. That'll take a full day at least. Then there are about six places where I couldn't deal with the mind-numbing typographical layout so I just typed "put a section in here that walks though such-and-such step by step". I think it'll take another day to get those filled in.
So hopefully Wednesday I'll be beaming it over to Hari and see if he thinks it'll pass the test (with obvious fixes and updates).
God I'm anxious to get this thing behind me.
I've spent the last two days sitting at the laptop, doing my best to unthaw the part of the brain that once dealt with that field called "Statistics". The final paper has 5 more pages on it. (All that effort for 5 pages! I hate writing math stuff.) But we're chugging along.
I'm happy that over the last month I was able to bring in some extra money. (More than half came from the acting gig, believe it or not!) Although part of my brain is screaming that I should be cold-calling and bringing in new clients, the other part of my brain is telling me to shut up and focus on the paper.
And so on I type.
The only break has been mid-day going to the gym. I've found it SUBSTANTIALLY increases the amount of time I can type before my wrist and shoulder start falling apart again. In an hour I'm going to go have dinner with some friends. We've got a traditional Sunday dinner which I try never to miss because this group is a bunch of really cool people. (Alley introduced me to them.) It's good anyway because after 8 hours of math typing I'm really in brain fry.
I was hoping to send a draft off to Hari tomorrow. I've got a lot to still do about the ACAS software Dave and I did. That'll take a full day at least. Then there are about six places where I couldn't deal with the mind-numbing typographical layout so I just typed "put a section in here that walks though such-and-such step by step". I think it'll take another day to get those filled in.
So hopefully Wednesday I'll be beaming it over to Hari and see if he thinks it'll pass the test (with obvious fixes and updates).
God I'm anxious to get this thing behind me.
Posted: Sun - October 19, 2003 at 05:31 PM