Dissertation fail you will, if being stupid you do not stop.

Its 9:14am and already I'm over an hour behind my schedule. How depressing is that? I'm never planning to start work at 8am again, ever. Especially not on five and a half hours sleep.

Possibly it's the sleep thing or possibly I've just lost it but everytime I quote Aristotle, I want to write it in Yoda!speak. "Writing about one man does not for a unity of plot make mmmmmmmm?"

It's exceedingly distracting. Especially since it's only the first line.

edit: Discovering the Hot Fuzz site has millions of clips and behind-the-scenes video blogs up? Yeah. Not conducive to work at all. (Jesus, I even built two hours flexiblity into my schedule... and it's not even 10:30am and I'm two hours behind already. So. Useless.)

edit: Word count of current section: 427
Overall word count: 1,603
Number of Joss Whedon-related references so far: 1 (Buffy).
Boredom levels (scale of 1-10): 5

Y'all are being very quiet lately. I will poke you indiscriminately until you all say something. *pokes flist*

edit the secondthird: Word count of current section: 498.

It amuses me greatly that I'm writing about heroes while listening to Poets of the Fall... singing about heroes. Is there a hero somewhere, someone who appears and saves the day, someone who holds out a hand and turns back time. It's so appropriate I'm going to see if I can quote it.

edit the third fourth: 844 words. This is utterly, utterly depressing given that I was meant to be on 2,500 by this time. Starting to suspect I've heavily overestimated my own typing and concentration abilities.

I have another hour that I built into my schedule before I start running over into planning time for the next section. Over 2,000 words in an hour. Yeah. Right. x_x

Focus. For godssake.

edit the... oh bugger this: Current word count: 967
Overall word count: 2,152. Passed 2,000 words, yay! Only 7,900ish left to go!

Think I've wandered off topic a little for a few hundred words. Nevermind; there's 10,000 overall. No one'll notice. *touch wood*

edit the something: Current word count: 1,101. Yay! Though I'm literally just starting the analysis now and I'm beginning to think I'm rambling too much in the introduction to the section. But it needs explaining, because it's complicated and it's not stuff the tutor will know unless they've read around a lot on the topic. So I don't know. Maybe I'll call L and ask how she's done hers, though I know we've got different structures.

edit the billionth: Oh this section is going to be too long. Each individual application of a Hero's Journey stage was, at most, meant to be limited to 250 words... and applying the first one to *just* The Odyssey has taken that much.

Yeah. This section may end up longer. Or maybe I'll end up having to cut the intro down. A *lot*.

Overall word count: 2, 698 words. Aiming to hit 3,000 within the next hour. Then I'll only have 4,000 to do by midnight to hit my initial target of 7,000 words for today. Yeah. Right.

edit the panicked: Oh god, I'm just plot summarising. That's all. The last 200 words are just plot summary. God. This will not do. Which means I have to delete them and go back. ;_; Oh for...

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It's just dawning on me exactly how long it's going to take to write this dissertation. Forget having Wednesday free for edits and rewrites. I'm only just coming up on 2,900 words now and I still have countless thousands of things I need to say and analyse and discuss. Which means I'm not on 2,900 words at all, because half of them are going to have to get cut out.

I may go buy myself a Hot Fuzz poster to stop myself panicking. Breathe, breeaaaaaathe. I have so much work to do. -_- Such. An. Idiot.

edit the one that's on a new post: 3,050 words and I have freshers being annoyingly loud outside my door. DEAR FRESHERS, SHUT UP, AM VERY BUSY AND STRESSED. Gggrr. Just wait until me and Kayleigh finish earlier than them in May. WE WILL HAVE VENGENCE.

I was meant to have finished this section half an hour ago but I still have at least a thousand, probably more, words to go. It's too long. So much is going to have to get cut out. ;_; It doesn't help that I mis-pasted into the main file a minute ago and thought for a second I'd passed 4,000 words. Yeah. That was nice.

edit the ninety-nine trillionth of the day: 3,654 words and I should make 4,000 by by stopping-for-dinner break at half eight. This is good but also exceedingly bad given that it means I'm already running hideously overlength.

Then again, it's better to have too many words than none at all because I write looooooong sentences in essays and can easily cut loads of stuff out. So, things are looking a tiny bit brighter right now. That is, they will be if I stop typing this and get a bloody move on with the actual thing.

Hot Fuzz poster is not in stock. Woe. Ordered it anyway. Yay! Think I am developing geeky love for Simon Pegg, though that could be dissertation stress talking.

edit the ninety-nine trillionth and one: Just realised the stacks of books beside me on the desk are almost/are over shoulder-height. Help help, I'm being buried alive by books! Aaahh!!!

Current overall word count: 4,013 words. Bite me alien boy!

No, that has no relevance I've just wanted to yell it triumphantly since Children in Need. Triumph over, I am horribly overlength and will be lucky to even start the second second by tonight but I really have to, regardless of sleep. I don't have time to leave it to tomorrow. Still, going to have dinner and bask in my minor accomplishments for an hour now. ^_^

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Something seems to have gone horribly wrong with Rizzo. One minute he's fine, the next I look up and he's floating on his side near the surface. He's down towards the bottom again now but still on his side and on a few darts around the tank he clearly can't stay upright or find any sort of balance. He was fine. Not overly active but I just assumed he was missing Gonzo.

I cannot cope with dead fish on top of the dissertation. Not when I've had them since first year and they're my uni fish. I really can't.

edit: Well he's upright again, though not looking anything like normal. I'm at a bit of a loss when fish go wrong. I'm much better with fluffy things. :-/