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trinityofone ([personal profile] trinityofone) wrote2005-12-07 04:24 pm
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'Why We Slash' beta help?

So. I have a draft of the Why We Slash paper. (Yes, I know I haven't fully finished responding to the responses, but I'm really running out of time here, and y'all already know that I suck.) I don't hate it as much as I initially did, but I'm still not sure that it actually, you know, makes sense or says anything. I have to turn it in the day after tomorrow; is there anyone who'd be willing to look it over? Normally, I'd ask my mother, but despite her professed interest in the topic, um, no. It's about 10 pages long, and uses the phrase "blow job" more than any other academic paper I have ever written. (Which is to say, once.)

I also have to bang my Victorianism paper into shape. This is the one that's sekritly about how Holmes and Watson are so very, very gay for each other, and...I'm sensing a pattern here. And the scary truth is, I have written a lot of papers about--sexuality? homoeroticism?--in literature. I mean, there was the Portrait of a Lady paper about how Isabel Archer is incredibly, incredibly repressed, and how the only person in the world who possibly knows more about repression is Henry James himself. Not to mention the one about how in East of Eden, Lee is the Eve to Adam Trask's Adam. (And I still want Lee/Adam, people! You litslash folks are falling down on the job!) I guess you could say I've identified my area of interest. Now what do I do with all this? I mean, like, in life. *deep thoughts*

Confidential (by which I of course mean completely, gloriously public) to:

[livejournal.com profile] plainsong_x: I have acquired the book! THE BOOK HAS BEEN ACQUIRED BY ME! And the edition with the cool cover that you liked, too. (We're talking Exquisite Corpse here, for all you people who are BRAZENLY LISTENING IN on our PRIVATE CONVERSATION.)

[livejournal.com profile] isiscolo: So I went to the bookstore today specifically to get a computer book. I got there, I poked around in fiction and history for a while, I picked up the above piece of serial killer wacky fun, and then I walked out, having completely forgotten what had been my sole purpose in going there in the first place. *headdesk* So, goal for tomorrow, really! Seriously, though: all I need is a tweed jacket with patches on the elbows and I'd be the quintessential absent-minded professor. (Oh, and a degree. One of those might be helpful.)

And [livejournal.com profile] sdraevn: Damn you! You've got me listening to Bon Jovi and liking it! *is ashamed*

No, seriously: her John/Rodney mix is fantastic. Check it out: Weird About Each Other.

I should probably do some actual work now. But yeah, please let me know if I can put your mad beta skillz to work. Thanks!

ETA: Okay, I think I'm cool on betas! Thank you all so much!

[identity profile] dizzyditz.livejournal.com 2005-12-07 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Good luck on your papers! And sweet lord woman do you link to past entries. It must be a writing-lots-of-papers-major thing.

[identity profile] trinityofone.livejournal.com 2005-12-07 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I like cross-referencing and alphabetizing; what can I say: I'm a geek.

Hey, I know you're mostly checking LJ from the library these days, but do you have any way to download something onto your own computer? Or the computer of a sympathetic friend?

[identity profile] dizzyditz.livejournal.com 2005-12-07 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes: I always carry a flash drive. What would this be?

[identity profile] trinityofone.livejournal.com 2005-12-07 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Prezzie for yoooouuuuuuuu! (http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0GWW8T7XHWXBB34TSRKCPC9SYH)

To feed your obsession with Barty Crouch, Jr. ;-) Will probably take about half an hour to download.

[identity profile] dizzyditz.livejournal.com 2005-12-08 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
!! I know what this is!! *bounces*

I tried to download it, realized that it was bigger than my flashdrive, so I shall try again to download it in the microcomputing facilities here and zip it if possible while I read an article about the determinants of Spanish industrial exports. Yayyyy!

[identity profile] dizzyditz.livejournal.com 2005-12-08 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Good lord the English can't pronounce things to save their lives. "Jack-a-mo?"

[identity profile] trinityofone.livejournal.com 2005-12-08 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
I think that's so they can get away with calling him Jack. ;-)

[identity profile] dizzyditz.livejournal.com 2005-12-08 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
That was fantastic! Must find a way to get the full version now. Thank you so much!

[identity profile] trinityofone.livejournal.com 2005-12-08 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
I have two more episodes, although it may take me a couple of days to upload them for you. (My computer crashes at the end of each upload because yousendit HATES ME.) But I'm glad you liked it! I have David Tennant-->you firmly associated in my mind now, 'cause YOU SAW HIM FIRST. *g*

[identity profile] dizzyditz.livejournal.com 2005-12-09 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
♥ Thank you *happiness*