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I would have posted last night, but roomie was embroiled in his wrestling e-fed, and if I had tried to evict him from the computer chair, there would have been a huge, ridiculous row, and I would have spent the rest of the night alternating between pangs of guilt and self-righteous indignation, so I let him play, and this morning, he happily agreed to let me have free rein of the Internet all day. Whee!
In truth, there was nothing to report last night. I watched Fraggle Rock and CSI and ficced. I meant to read the rest of Dracula yesterday, but the Super Secret Project was on a roll, and I didn't want to mess with the mojo. Hopefully, I'll finish my linguistic homework in time to read tonight. I want to start Jonathan Strange & Mr. Morrell before the coming week.
The aforementioned linguistics homework will be a pain in the ass. Not because it's hard, but because it's tedious. Constructing trees for compound sentences with multiple complements starts out simply enough, but it soon turns into a Gordian knot of phrases and clauses and branches and traces and inflection marks, and after you've performed inversions and Wh-movements, you've got three trees for the same construction and a blinding desire to put out your own eyes with a dull pencil. But you can't, because now you've got to write the rules and the lexicon set for the monstrosity you've created. It's a bit like performing delicate bowel surgery with a dowel and a rusty bandsaw, and I don't wish it on anyone.
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pandora_nervosa has been stricken with another bout of Crohn's. Feel better, sweet, and enjoy the smut so many of your talented friends are drumming up for you. I'd write some pr0n, but you know me-the mindfuck must come before the joys of inserting the bits into the bobs, and even if I started right this second, I'd get to the bump and grind right about the time you qualified for Social Security.
I'm going to post the Nevillefic to FA and FF.net in a few days. The only change will be the removal of the portion wherein Augusta Longbottom flips her top over the gum wrappers. Thanks,atheilen, for pointing the discrepancy out. You will be credited as a beta in my Author's Notes on FA. Thank you for helping my story improve.
Super Secret Project Word Count: 6,112
In truth, there was nothing to report last night. I watched Fraggle Rock and CSI and ficced. I meant to read the rest of Dracula yesterday, but the Super Secret Project was on a roll, and I didn't want to mess with the mojo. Hopefully, I'll finish my linguistic homework in time to read tonight. I want to start Jonathan Strange & Mr. Morrell before the coming week.
The aforementioned linguistics homework will be a pain in the ass. Not because it's hard, but because it's tedious. Constructing trees for compound sentences with multiple complements starts out simply enough, but it soon turns into a Gordian knot of phrases and clauses and branches and traces and inflection marks, and after you've performed inversions and Wh-movements, you've got three trees for the same construction and a blinding desire to put out your own eyes with a dull pencil. But you can't, because now you've got to write the rules and the lexicon set for the monstrosity you've created. It's a bit like performing delicate bowel surgery with a dowel and a rusty bandsaw, and I don't wish it on anyone.
Speaking of bowels-yes, I know it's a horrible, tasteless segue; shut up-poor
pandora_nervosa has been stricken with another bout of Crohn's. Feel better, sweet, and enjoy the smut so many of your talented friends are drumming up for you. I'd write some pr0n, but you know me-the mindfuck must come before the joys of inserting the bits into the bobs, and even if I started right this second, I'd get to the bump and grind right about the time you qualified for Social Security.I'm going to post the Nevillefic to FA and FF.net in a few days. The only change will be the removal of the portion wherein Augusta Longbottom flips her top over the gum wrappers. Thanks,
atheilen, for pointing the discrepancy out. You will be credited as a beta in my Author's Notes on FA. Thank you for helping my story improve.Super Secret Project Word Count: 6,112
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