La Vie En Rose for 2005 April 26 (entry 0)

(3) Tue Apr 26 2005 16:09 PST: My PK's article on Serbia is going to be extremely long. And half of it is footnotes. And, oh yeah, Serbia isn't the only part of the article. I suppose I'll get v good at using the machete.

Update: I thought by word count was 4,500, which is bad (good?) enough, but then I realised that wasn't including footnotes. It's actually 8,000 10,000. Wowo. That's half two-thirds of my MA thesis, right there. (But a lot of it is quotes, or cutting and pasting from summaries I've already written.) I know I'm adding too much for an article, but I can't tell myself to stop; I know it will be much easier to save it as is, then go back and edit, and have the longer version for future projects, than to go through the materials again trying to add more detail much later. So yes, once the article is finished, the book will be practically written. (Except for France, hahahahaha... ha.)

And, I'm stalking a super-cute pair of gold heels on eBay which I really don't need. I've wanted gold shoes ever since Christmas, when Leonard gave me a cute antique gold purse, so I can wear them with my black editor pants and a cute top--but the trouble is I don't have anywhere to wear them to, and even if I did I have black shoes & purse that would work perfectly fine. That and I'm going to try to only spend $20 a week (not including gas) in order to eventually afford grad school... soo--no bidding on gold shoes for Rachel. No non no.

Comments:

Posted by Susie at Wed Apr 27 2005 15:17

In need of a good editor: Bruce R. McConkie. J.R.R. Tolkien. Rachel Richardson.

Posted by Pooca at Wed Apr 27 2005 20:41

Buy the shoes this week, then don't spend the extra $5 every week until it catches up. Gold shoes sound fantastic!

*is a bad influence*

Posted by Rachel at Wed Apr 27 2005 20:58

I can edit myself. And I have Stacy. It will just take some doing.

I'm NOT going to buy the shoes. I'd rather go to grad school, and I don't have anywhere to wear them to, so I never would, so it's a waste of money.

Someone outbit my Corrs singles, too, at 5 am, and I lost the auction. Oh well--I don't need them anyway.