Numbers

I just noticed jumping_off has 72 members now, about twenty more than there were last time I checked. This makes me happy.

lifein1973 has around 1400 members, so that means that the percentage of people who didn't like the ending is around 5 percent. We're a bigger minority than I thought! (I thought we might be around 1 percent.)

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I still haven't written the last page and a half of my frelling paper. I have just about reached the right stage of "don't frelling care, but time's kind of pressing now" to be able to write it, even if it's utter shite, and not mind so much.

Edited for wonky maths.

Bwahahahaaa!

Okay, so I didn't continue writing my bloody paper after all, because I remembered I just have to *talk* about it tomorrow, not hand in the written version. I can take a day or two more on the written version.

But. I was worried I wouldn't be able to reach the necessary length of ten pages. And just now I realised - dude, I can change the font! I'd typed it in Times New Roman, but Arial is also acceptable for uni papers!

So, I changed the font, and hey presto! Six and a half pages became a full seven pages. I think I can fill another page and a half with what's left of my notes, and possibly expand the introduction a bit. I should be fine.

Now I just need to whisk up a halfway decent handout before tomorrow afternoon, which is entirely manageable. Also, I'm still in that pleasant 'I really don't care *at all*' state where I'm convinced that all I need is a 'pass' - the grade doesn't really matter. It's true, too. This is a very small part of my qualification for the M.A., and won't have any influence whatsoever on the final grade. Sure, it would be nice to actually do a *good* presentation, especially as this seminar is held by my advisor. But, on the other hand, I think she probably understands that I'm under a lot of pressure right now and can't really put all the much energy into that paper.

(And yeah, I know, if I were an ideal student I would react to all that pressure by actually *working* hard... and some of the time I do, but I get these long stretches of basically freezing in terror - masquerading as indifference - for weeks at a time.)

Going to bed now.