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it has been a hard slog. i have models of accountability running around in my head, and far too much Rousseau for someone who knew next to nothing about him six months ago. i've spent the whole day trying to wrap this essay up, and i'm still at least two days away from it. with any luck i'll have this draft, the third draft, finished tomorrow morning in order to email it away to various persons who will undoubtedly email it back absolutely torn to shreds. which is good. but right now i am not looking forward to it.
i will take tomorrow afternoon and evening off. joshua gets back tomorrow evening. hurrah. that will be exciting. but i wont be able to spend much time with him as of yet, because come tuesday i will have to start on the second essay - Rousseau meets Kant in a definition of the subject. this is much more familiar ground for me, but still it is gonna be tight. ten days to read the necessary secondary material and write the essay. it's the six thousand words that are killing me on the first draft. i can knock out an idea pretty solid in about three to four thousand, and from that get a pretty neat and tight two to three thousand word essay. but the first drafts of these six thousand worders are just scraping into six thousand. they take much more time going back over the argument, rehashing it, and making sure it is flowing on logically and soundly. i don't think i have ever worked on anything so sustained ever.
for my sake i should set down a bit of a timeline. if it is really finished on the 26th i have to send out the 3rd draft on the 25th. which means i have to draft over the weekend of the 21st and 22nd. which means i have tuesday/wednesday/thursday/friday to read and take notes. phew. they are gonna be four hell of a days.
doable, but i have totally made this more difficult for myself than i needed to. remind myself to post about living in the blue mountains. wow. something different.