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May 13, 2005
No Time!
I'm running out of time--there are just too many things to do and not enough time to do them and still get 10 hours of sleep a night. Spare me your pity.
I started off the day with a thesis meeting with our advisor. He basically told us to condense the first three chapters (60-ish pages) of our thesis draft into "5 to 8" pages of literature review. Not to mention rearranging most of the rest of the paper. Some of his points were very good (we have a lot of redundancy) and some of it was silly, but at least we have a better idea of what the committee will be looking for.
Afterwards, I ditched my thesis partner to go downtown with Roya. We had pizza at a new (to us) place across from Wayne's Coffee. Roya talked me into trying a "seafood" pizza, which we both regretted later. From dinner, we walked up to the movies and bought our tickets for Bride and Prejudice, a Bollywood adaptation of Jane Austen's novel.
The movie was a mix of lip-synched musical numbers and complicated dance routines. It was possibly my worst nightmare, and yet somehow I managed to really enjoy it. I just kept thinking how this would have been such an awesome movie to watch when I was about 10 years old. I just know I would have re-enacted the scenes later on in the privacy of my bedroom, much like I did with The Pirate Movie so many years ago.
We biked home, and I've spent the last 4 hours working frantically on my thesis. I'm in the middle of a breakthrough, but I just don't have the stamina to finish it tonight. So far, I've gone from 60 pages to 33--and I think I need to call it quits. Tomorrow, if I'm very good, I can get in a couple hours of work before going downtown to meet Archie. We're hosting a May Birthdays Party for the class, and there is much work to be done.
If this party is anything like the last party at Bredgatan, I will be in no shape to work on my thesis for the rest of the weekend.
4 a.m. Update: Now that I'm on a roll, I can't seem to shut down the computer and go to bed. I'm down to 22 pages, and counting...
