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...I strongly suggest they do a PhD. The general crass impenetrability of what I am being asked to create would hold up a charging rhino with galloping diarrhoea, that can see a free toilet and all the bog roll its heart could desire just a few steps beyond.

It's the dryest text since the diary of the first crossing of the Atacama desert was published.

I have to proof read in short stints, as any more than five minutes concentration on the subject and I find myself falling asleep. I have to stay up late and write while Emma sleeps alone, which is bloody inconsiderate on its part. Every time I take a draft to my supervisor, he makes wholesale changes that upon being told about appear obvious, but are vague and unimportant until he shows me them.

It's not impossible, and with the level of help I am receiving, not even all that hard, but dear God, it's boring.

Gosh

Date: 2007-02-02 05:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dbexx.livejournal.com
See, I didn't know you were actually supposed to READ PhD creations . . .
I was always under the impression that they were dry, highly specialised academic texts, that when one finishes, one forgets about.
Now, I didn't get through any kind of degree, so I may be wrong, and I get that its frustrating, but you're not writing prose here, dude.

However you have my whole hearted sympathy for the inconvenience, and having to work when Emma sleeps.

The thing I called you about btw? I recieved apologies, without being asked. I was very gracious. But I still feel like accepting an apology for something of that sort, and going back to trust again are poles apart.

Caroline wrote a nice thing on her 'let me write a story about you' meme that I posted on. You should read.

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