PhD proposal status update
Aug. 26th, 2009 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drcuriosityDeadline: 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
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
