Halley questions the week’s seven-day length, and I for one am with her. Actually, it’s more that April (well, post-friends’-wedding last weekend really) is one continuous work stint.
You know, I like it. It’s liberating. I don’t get to ignore laundry or bills or my teaching for too long; but most tasks can be put off if they need to be – and these days there are tangible results after every encoding stint, spurring me on. This, these days right now, is when I get to actually say what I’ve been waiting so long to say about the Roland corpus. I say it by putting angle brackets around my argument. By this coming weekend, I’ll have enough encoded that we can start playing with the semantic patterns that emerge. It’s been a long time coming, but now that it’s less than a month to presentation, the work is flying, exhilarating. I feel focused, and remember once again why I love my work so much.
