PhD proposal status update

[drcuriosity]

Deadline: End of the month, slightly before the time I get on a plane
Current approximate word count: 3,500
References in bibliography: 18 (so far)
Footnotes: 9 (mostly URLs)
Own prior work cited: enough
Other people's work cited: not quite enough yet, but getting there
Publications on the go: more than strictly necessary for the first six months of a PhD
Cups of water: many
Caffeine supply: dwindling
Food: vegetarian samosa and pinwheel
Perceived food tastiness: nominal
Tabulated data: none yet
Pretty pictures drawn: four
Urge to curl up in a ball and hope it all goes away: high but falling
Urge to be curled up in bed with a beautiful woman at the end of it all: maintaining high level
Urge to reformat list as HTML table: rising, but threshold not met
Urge to reformat list with colons inside bold tags: succumbed
Chances of getting along to the 48 Hour Party: negligible
Packing completed: 5%
Cowbell?: more required
Pony?: not yours
King?: still not

Comments

[amphigori.livejournal.com]

*COWBELL COWBELL COWBELL*

Go go go! You can do it! *Cheers*

[drcuriosity]

Ah, but can I do it and still be sane at the end of it?
Oh, wait - too late for that already ;-)

[pleiadeslion.livejournal.com]

Awesome post.

When I used to write plays I had this software called Final Draft, and one of the things it could do was give you a report on the number of profanties used, where they appear and exactly what they are.

If those are the vege samosas I'm thinking of, they are quite simply awesome.

[drcuriosity]

That sounds like a useful word processing feature, in plays or anywhere else.

I don't know if they're exactly the ones you're thinking of but they're roughly tetrahedral, filled with curried tasty goodness and around the size of a reasonably big fist. We seem to be fairly well-off for Indian food on campus, I think. I'm also pleased to see the cafes marking products that are vegetarian and/or halal as a matter of course, now.

[leinahtane.livejournal.com]

everyones gotta have more cowbell!! lol i used to have the sticker on my drumset.

[drcuriosity]

Good man :-)

[drcuriosity]

And I didn't even need to go to Miskatonic ;-)

[selina-fox.livejournal.com]

Perceived food tastiness: nominal

Nomnomnom!

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[drcuriosity]

Nomnomnominal :-)

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