slower and not so much going...

[karenor]

my paper is up to a whopping four pages. i've been working on it pretty much nonstop since 9am. i have two quotes that are over 8 lines. is that bad? i've written on the marxists, the structuralists and have just begun to write on the formalists. so i have to fill that section up and write a conclusion. i'm aiming for 6 pages, the assignment is 5-7, so i could be kinda brief about the formalists if need be. i'm worried about the big quotes tho... also, i'm typing in arial, cuz it's bigger than times new roman, and i feel guilty abou it. but it's not THAT much bigger. also i'm leaving the margins at 1.25. fuck mla.

on friday, with my drunk friends (i wasn't drunk, unfortunately, i can't be) i declared quite simply, that "MLA makes me want to die". someone said i should put it on a t-shirt. i should! and wear it to theory class, or possibly graduation (you know, if THAT ever happens...)

i've spent more time looking up how to cite things than actually writing the damn paper. ugh.

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[about-worth.livejournal.com]

you've beat me. so far i have THREE!!!! *cheers* not very good, but they're there.

wouldn't it be great if none of us turned in our papers next week? we all boycot the whole thing? would he flunk us all?

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[karenor.livejournal.com]

now THERE'S an idea. we can just whine a lot tomorrow...he's a fairly reasonable guy. and he gave a fairly UNreasonable assignment. graduate level does not mean "less time than necessary to do stuff" sheesh. i doubt he'd bend tho. he thinks all this theory crap is as natural as breathing.

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[about-worth.livejournal.com]

i would be so happy if he gave us an extra week...just 7 more days! we get that much additional time for the final papers...

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[karenor.livejournal.com]

at this point it makes no difference to me. i have another huge paper i have to do between when these are due and a week later.

the final is worth more, i guess that's why we get more time. i imagine they'll have to be longer too...yikes.