Sooooo sleeeeeeepy.

[rivka]

My two morning research participants didn't show up today. I spent the time plowing through the last twelve pages of editing my Discussion section. My afternoon subject obligingly showed up early, which meant that I could leave work early, so I came home and typed up the changes I'd made in the morning and shipped the Discussion off to John. That's a complete second draft done. Then I collapsed on the bed with curiousangel and took a two-hour nap. Mmmmm. I've now forced myself to wake up so that I won't throw my sleep schedule off completely, but I'm still feeling remarkably sleep-focused.

That's a complete second draft done.

Things left to do:
- Put the sections together and fix all the formatting - line spacing, page numbering, etc.
- Proofread tables and clean up table formatting.
- Clean up figure (graph) formatting.
- Come up with a better first sentence than "Don't call me Ishmael."
- Interleave figures and tables into the Results section, because John doesn't want them in appendices.
- Dig up the last few references I need.
- Make sure that all the references cited in the text appear in the reference list, and all the references on the reference list are cited in the text.
- Add a couple of lines each to the Introduction (citing more evidence for the effectiveness of analog research) and the Results (reporting the correlation between social isolation and family stress).
- Write up the acknowledgements, dedication, table of contents, and abstract.
- Read the whole thing straight through and see if any other changes need to be made. The Discussion in particular may need more tweaking.
- Incorporate any last-minute edits of John's after he gets the second draft back to me.
- Print dissertation, make copies, put them in a FedEx box, and send it to John.

Um. I think that's it.

I can do that.

Comments

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

Almost there, Soon-to-be-Dr. Rivka!

Yay, you!

[thbeatnik.livejournal.com]

It looks like you had a very productive afternoon.
Good job!

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

You left off the last bit:

- Celebrate.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

"I think you can, I think you can, I think you can...."

[boxofdelights]

Woo hoo!

[dedoc.livejournal.com]

Yes. You surely can.

Thinking of you,
good thoughts and all manner of prayers.

go get 'em!

[ex-helygen254.livejournal.com]

*shakes her pompoms*

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Oh, is that what they're calling them these days?

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

So what's wrong with "Don't call me Ishmael?" Worked fine for Herman Melville.... : >

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Heh. My advisor prefaced his criticism of my first sentence with "although we shouldn't aspire to be Melville..."

Ever since then, I haven't been able to let go of the idea of starting off with "Don't call me Ishmael." Damn him!