The Dissertation March

Just before midnight, and I've completed the first-pass of footnote and reference style cleanup and "pretty" bibliography building for the dissertation (i.e. I always have a working bibliography for every writing project, and at the end go through and construct the final bibliography both from cites and from notes, in order to doublecheck everything. Michael Bellesiles, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Stephen Ambrose might try it sometimes! But it's easier to steal, I guess). That only took about 10 hours, all told, and there was even time for a workout.

Of course, I still need to proof the damn beast, and write a conclusion, but that's not as onerous as style and cite checking. GAWD.

I guess I should post some material to Reductio now, huh? Lots of goodies stored in the PDA -- way too much to post. And I once wondered if I would have enough "quality" material to post if I abandoned the less selective one-line weblog format. Ha! Funny. *smacks himself on the head* What was I thinking?!

No time for anything more elaborate tonight, but here's a term for Jim Bennett: Popular Sovereignty.

[Posted at 23:37 CST on 02/23/02] [Link]