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Thesis Progress Update:

Introduction: Historiography
~~Chapter 1: Stead's Editorial Theory~~
~~Chapter 2: General Gordon~~
~~Chapter 3: Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon~~
~~Conclusion: Titanic~~

Total word count at this point: 44,384
Final draft due in to thesis supervisor: tomorrow
Final draft due in to the department: a week tomorrow
Cups of coffee purchased and consumed today: six
Number of those cups that contained decaf: one

Number of annoying cats on my lap, licking my elbow, resting the full of their not-inconsiderable weight on my forearm, stepping on my ovaries, and otherwise making it both painful and difficult to type: 1

In other news, I really need to try to stop thinking about the Tour de France now and go back to thinking about Stead. The Tour's over. It's time for me move on.

lazlet and

the_oscar_cat, I want you both to know that I blame you two entirely for my current difficulties with concentration.

...how many days until the next Tour, exactly? And what does one do to fill the time in between?

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Woo, you're just a word-producing maniac! Well done.

Re concentration: it's been a lifelong problem for me, especially when deadlines are involved. Let me know when you find the solution.

There's too many days until the next tour! To full those days, we watch DVDs of previous tours and footage from this years.

Really.

*squeezes*

I bought It's Not About the Bike. Then I made the mistake of trying to read it on the bus. I was crying by page three and people were looking at me funny.

I think I'm going to save the rest of it for home consumption.

After I exhaust the books, I will definitely have to look into the possibility of DVDs.

Touryayeomg!!1!

I still have my swimming to console me, at least for the next couple of days.

If it'd any consolation, the Vuelta [Tour of Spain] starts in September. ;)

*squeezes you*

You're so cute!!!

That is quite comforting, particularly as I will be back in North Bay and living with my parents' satelite dish by then. Surely one of the multitude of channels they get will be carrying the Vuelta.

New obsessions are great, and having a passel of lovely British girlies to mentor me into this one made it even greater. Also, unlike my usual preoccupations, I can even talk to my father about cycling, although most of our conversations so far have revolved around me trying to convince him that not every professional athlete is using drugs. He's a very cynical man. It's part of his charm.

I may need a cycling icon.

*ponders*

WAAHHH!

i wrote a whole post and then managed to kill it.

i will return with something similar soon.