I didn't feel like

blogging yesterday, I suppose. I don't really feel like it today either, but I will. Today is a writing day.

I forgot to mention that my thesis is totally more about writing and memory than I had realized. And it will only be even more so by the end of it.

After going through Castle twice - once for always and once for never - I finally realized that it would be much more efficient to track all the terms I wanted to trace at once with a spreadsheet, so that's what I did yesterday. It was still as tedious as it sounds, but it means that I've read the novel like four times in the last three days. And of course, I'm about sick of it, but I've also noticed some interesting trends that I want to talk about in my paper. I need to go back over the book for the occurrences of "might," though. And then I need to analyze the data. The sheer number of "would"s is as I expected. The other advantage of the spreadsheet is that I was able to track the words by page number, chapter, and total all at once.

I need a snack. I really need to go to the grocery store, and I definitely want to get out of my apartment (as always - I'm antsy), but it's chilly and I don't want to take my laptop into the city. Really I just want to run away to Mexico. Can I? Can I do that? Wouldn't that be nice? If you walkaway, I walkaway...

If I work for the next few hours, I can reward myself. That's vague. Mm, I have an easter basket full of chocolate from my sister sitting on my desk. A little sugar to start off the evening sounds fabulous.