Field of Daize’s

Well, same old stuff. Got some good feed back off jimmy. the feedback was great, the news not so handy. It kinda confirmed my theory that this thesis is really suckfull.

Oh well,

Real word count : same
Shit count : 2136
Mood : fuck this thesis, can it hug me at night?

Cool, another idea.

Rythym in music is an external keeper of time.
Tempo is an internal keeper.

Same thing in comics. That is probably not that exciting, but it is to me, and I’m sticking by it.

Ok, it has been a slow day to get into work. But I have done something that I have allways wanted to do… and that is actually analyse a comic strip. It sounds dumb, that I should be doing this for the first time the week before the thesis is due in.

Funnily enough, direct annalysis and criticism is what I do best. In hind sight, I really should have focused on the comic strip art of ONE artist. But I though at the time (and still do, academically speaking) that an underlying rationale for all comic strips is needed.

My change of mind comes from teh time limiits of the thesis.

I feel like a ninja… I came up with one rather original line today, which I share with you :

Temporality is SIGN POSTED (signaled) by the panel. It is RECORDED by the figuarative positions of the characters, but it is INDEXED by temporal markers.

This is actually kinda the crux of my annalysis, and I’m rather proud of it. That may change in the next ten minutes.

Real count : same
Draft count : 2156
Mood : ninja

BLLLLAAAAAAGHHHH. I don’t know wether to laugh, cry or shoot somone, in a “Harley mad rampage around uni with a super soaker” style.

What the hell do I want to do with my life? This thesis is eating into my brain and my patients, and I find myself somewhat at the end of my nerves. Something has got to give.
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Here is a new word count game.

First Draft Word Count : 10,638
Rough Draft Wrod Count : 1135

Mood : what?

Ok, so this is the game. The aim is to get the rough draft count to about 5000, then to see how quickly after that the rough draft diminishes into first draft territory. This will keep me busy for a while, I’m sure.

I’ve decided that jaffles are my study food of choice. No fuss, and they have ample quantities of fat and carbs to keep me going. That along with my diet lemon coke.. and you have the recipe to my sustinance at hte moment.

Went for a walk today, and came up a little clearer for ideas on Chapter four.Now I just have to write it. Sent shit off to keith… damn… i’m going to fail this fucking thing. Swearing a lot more than I should lately.

word count : same-ish
mood : geng ge ge geng geng geng gen geng geng

Does anyone have THE CALVIN AND HOBBES TENTH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION???!!?!!?!?!!

I think that is the one. It has a massive essay by Watterson about his cartoons. If anyone has it, or anyone knows of anyone that might lend it to me for a week or so… I’d really, REALLY appriciate it. I need a quote or two from it for my thesis.

IN FACT…. if anyone has any copilation of Comic strips (not comic books) that they are willing to lend me for a while, I will worship the ground the walk on. I’m specially interested if you have the following : Pogo, Krazy Kat, Doonesbery, B.C, Wizard of Id, Hagar, Non Sequiteur, For Better or For Worse or anything else you might have lying around.

Extra karma points for any spanish or french comic strips.

THANKS (feel free to forward this on to as many people as possible)

Well, that was an exhaustingly frustrating day. But finally, I have a fairly decent-like Intro, Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and Chapter 3. I now have to write the REAL part of the thesis… chapter 4 and chapter 5. Oiy vey.

For shits and giggles, I strung up all the documents together. Without pictures, contents or references (but with 1.5 spacing), it is currently 34 pages long. That means that I should EASILY break the 50 page limit that science students (except for comp sci people) seem to have. I rock.

mood : too funked up to care about washing my greasy hair.
Word count : 10,421

As you can see by the time stamp… it is pretty late at night. Still, I feel pretty productive, even though my jaw is killing me from nashing my teeth. Stupid caffeine.

I’m trying to make some sense out of what I’ve written, because int eh morning I’m going to email my supervisor. I’m scared, and I want to have things just right. So I’m working on some things that are nigly but take time… like contents page and what not. I’m also re-editing stuff.

I have an extra paragraph now.. thanks to Daniel’s suggestion to make the introduction a bit punchier. So now I’ll have intro + Five chapters. Though it looks like the last two might collapse on themselves. Fuck I’m tired.

Mood : shaky sleepy.
Words : Fuck off.

Well, haven’t written in here for a while. Daniel looked over the notes, and gave me some pretty awsome advice. Also, some encouragment that maybe I aint’ going so bad.

Right now, I just spent close to a WHOLE day referencing the first three sections (intro and chapters 1 and 2). Fuck me dead.

Word count : 10302
Optimistic word count : 13819 (That is including references, footnotes and the gibberish I have for conclusion, chapter 3 and chapter 4)
Mood : coffee fucked.

Anyways, there is a new King Romulus up. For those of you that are worried…. don’t be… it is one that I’ve had on the server for a while ( I have another two left yet), just never got around to doing it. So, it hasn’t taken me any time from my thesis… in fact, it took all of five seconds to activate that file.

Well, havent’ written anything for a while.

I have just been reminded that I have to go and hand in an application for an APA scholarship thingy. I should do it… but seeing as though my progress is being severely fucked up by writers block, not to mention a lack of time or planning (or guidance), I doubt that I can get the D average I need to just be in the running.
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Wow, it has been so busy I don’t know where to start. I know where it MIGHT not stop…… at the thesis. I havne’t done anything in ages, and time is running out. I have this very strange feeling in my chest everytime I think of it, and I wake up nearly frantic. But I haven’t got the energy to do anything… life gets in teh way.
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Well, I have actually done a little bit of work, just haven’t catalogued it. But I hvaen’t done all that much. Got the first revision of my intro from someone, which was good. Now I have three people looking at it. Daniel and Jimmy are looking at it at the moment, which is good. Jimmy is great at being a blunt critic, one that takes little shit, and that makes my writing a lot clearer than my usual waffy pace.

Daniel is a conceptual guru, and he’ll be able to tell me stuff from a more specific art hisotory way. all I need is a grammar guru, and I’m set. I want to ask Lorien, but I feel a bit rude doing so. I’ll phone him anyways.

Anyways, I now have first drafts of Intro and Chapter 1.

mood : blah
wordcount : 9649

If you don’t belive in Santa, you are a twit. I now belive in him, and he looks surprisingly like my uncle.
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So, finally on the horse again. I meant to give my intro to a whole bunch of people to edit… ended up not doing so. I gave it to one person, and will be seeing her for coffee tonight. That will be good.

I have kinda finished the first chapter clean up, and going to do chapter 2 today. That means that I can get other people to look it over, and see what they think.

So now I just have to figure out chapter 3 and 4, which are theoretically teh meat and bones of the thing. Frick.

Current word count : 9715
Mood : busting to go to the bathroom, but don’t want to loose my computer.

Ok, so it has been a long time since I last wrote something. In cases such as these, people stop checking the diary, and kinda forget that it exists. That is cool, having an audience makes me write to an audience, and it makes the writing a little cornier.
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