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another breakthrough
Dec. 10th, 2002 12:55 amgreat moments in paper-writing:
when you realize that the idea you set out to refute actually has a lot in it, and your paper is going to turn at the ninth hour (as opposed to the eleventh, of course) from something attacking a theory into something supporting it.
i'm actually fine with this. it was getting awfully frustrating, looking for evidence that doesn't exist in support of a concept that has no legs. (i can't feel my legs!) this will not be a useless paper by any stretch; it will give historical support to an idea that gets a two-page brush-off in this 20-year-old textbook, and it will still get in some digs against relational grammar (like, dude -- if grammatical relations were all about location, we'd call them grammatical positions, wouldn't we?).
in other news, the university's website has been down all evening. the webmail has therefore also been unavailable ... so i have no way of knowing whether le boy has responded or not. which is irksome in its own way -- but right now, i'm so caught up in the paper i don't actually mind so much.
when you realize that the idea you set out to refute actually has a lot in it, and your paper is going to turn at the ninth hour (as opposed to the eleventh, of course) from something attacking a theory into something supporting it.
i'm actually fine with this. it was getting awfully frustrating, looking for evidence that doesn't exist in support of a concept that has no legs. (i can't feel my legs!) this will not be a useless paper by any stretch; it will give historical support to an idea that gets a two-page brush-off in this 20-year-old textbook, and it will still get in some digs against relational grammar (like, dude -- if grammatical relations were all about location, we'd call them grammatical positions, wouldn't we?).
in other news, the university's website has been down all evening. the webmail has therefore also been unavailable ... so i have no way of knowing whether le boy has responded or not. which is irksome in its own way -- but right now, i'm so caught up in the paper i don't actually mind so much.
