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You guys I am freaking out. I'm giving this paper in Brighton next week and my presentation is not finished and I am in full-on panic mode.
It's supposed to be 20 minutes so to me that's 10 typed pages. Right now I'm down to 12.25 that I'm pretty sure is coherent and flows. I've reworked it so the stuff I visually dissect in the last third shows up 1st thing at the beginning (for coherency and continuity and so we have something interesting to look at at the start). But still cutting 2 more pages, oh noes. (Although cutting is better than blank page, right? right?)
The panic is bad enough that D. has taken pity on me and is doing some (very brief) last minute translation and (slightly more extensive) last minute scanning as there is no way in hell I'm taking my precious reprintsacross the ocean out of my apartment.*
Note that everything would have been fine if this wasn't the culmination of my 6-week summer course. I'm giving the final tomorrow, spending tomorrow afternoon grading and then I fly out Saturday night. (Note I'm not giving the paper until Wednesday so I may have some time to refine it once I'm there, I found the European power adapter for the MacBook, thank god, but I'm a little worried that I won't have access to a printer. I'm staying on campus at the University of Sussex, there's got to be printing somewhere, right? I have three days to find it.)
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*The paper is on Yugoslav Dada and I'm using my beautiful expensive 300 limited edition reprints of these journals from the 1920s for my source material.
It's supposed to be 20 minutes so to me that's 10 typed pages. Right now I'm down to 12.25 that I'm pretty sure is coherent and flows. I've reworked it so the stuff I visually dissect in the last third shows up 1st thing at the beginning (for coherency and continuity and so we have something interesting to look at at the start). But still cutting 2 more pages, oh noes. (Although cutting is better than blank page, right? right?)
The panic is bad enough that D. has taken pity on me and is doing some (very brief) last minute translation and (slightly more extensive) last minute scanning as there is no way in hell I'm taking my precious reprints
Note that everything would have been fine if this wasn't the culmination of my 6-week summer course. I'm giving the final tomorrow, spending tomorrow afternoon grading and then I fly out Saturday night. (Note I'm not giving the paper until Wednesday so I may have some time to refine it once I'm there, I found the European power adapter for the MacBook, thank god, but I'm a little worried that I won't have access to a printer. I'm staying on campus at the University of Sussex, there's got to be printing somewhere, right? I have three days to find it.)
:whimper:
*The paper is on Yugoslav Dada and I'm using my beautiful expensive 300 limited edition reprints of these journals from the 1920s for my source material.
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