i wrote the conclusion to my thesis on thursday night. i expected it to be much more cathartic an experience than it was, but i'm still glad that i've pretty much got the bulk of it done.

i asked the supervisor if it was at all realistic to expect to be able to submit my thesis before the 8 october deadline.

"it's not impossible," he says.

which means that if i elect to get no sleep and work on it every waking moment, it'll be down to the wire.

the first battery of corrections rolled in from my supervisor tonight. he's out of town, so he's got some funky-ass program that lets him scrawl notes on a PDF. he sent me the document full of barely-legible digitally rendered scribbles, but you know what? it's feedback, which is more than i've gotten in the last two weeks.

this weekend, i have to finish a paper for my text and context course, after having finally finished reading blockbusters and trade wars yesterday, a full week after i intended to be done with it. it doesn't seem like the paper should be that difficult, but for some reason, it's a bit of a time sink-hole for me right now. i aim to get it done tonight, meaning i should be up until 2 am. i also have to write a 5-page manuscript evaluation (requiring a partial re-reading of my manuscript) for my editing course and two TI sheets for the book publishing project. i'm expected to make corrections to my thesis in the meantime, something i'm not entirely sure where to fit. i'm way behind on my reading...oh...

went to dmac's for dinner tonight, though. shrimp and veggies in a green curry sauce on rice. and peanut-butter-cream pie. yum. oh yeah, and i got to see the incredibly (like, REALLY) phallic lava lamp that his parents brought him. what would his sigmund freud action figure say?

tomorrow, i go to the word on the street festival. first time i've gone, and i'm really excited about it. next saturday's sort of freaking me out, though. i'm sitting on a blogging panel for media democracy day and i have no idea what to prepare or what i should say.

i'm at my lab and the draft of my thesis is printing right now. the printer's taking its sweet time: one page every 12 seconds or so. somehow, the monstrous piece of garbage ballooned to 88 pages. maybe i inserted a few too many schematic diagrams.

anyway, i really shouldn't post if i don't have anything relevant to say. but maybe someone will post some encouraging comments about how i'll make it through this week without an aneurysm?

mpub's a lot of work, yes, but i'm still loving it. next saturday, i will be a corpse, but a happy corpse.