OK, I’m going to try this again. I was posting just a few minutes ago while I was destroying lunch (Goddamn you, rice, goddamn you!) and we had a series of strange power surges or something which caused both Knave and Brannagh to reset a few times. Buster, having a battery, was unaffected. At any rate, the point of the post is to go on at silly length about the thesis some more, like y’all aren’t sick of hearing about it anyway.

So, I’ve e-mailed my first chapter to my committee members for picking apart, and I should hear from them eventually. Oooh exciting! Also, I’ve blocked off the rest of this afternoon to get some work done on the chapter for the review of the literature. I’m up to twelve pages on it and expect another ten or so before it’s done. If I can make good headway with it, then maybe I can take a crack at chapter three tomorrow and get some of the methodology fleshed out. Oooh excitinger! Plus, if I can keep going at this rate, I’ll make my March 1 deadline and just be done with it (until revisions). Oooh excitingest!

And in response to the message on the previous post about “Why not just use a centralized FTP server for the thesis and not have to lug Buster around?” Not possible. I mean, it’s possible to put up an FTP server and use it to constantly have to download and then have to remember to upload it so I can just redownload it again later, but let’s face it folks: if I’m so braindead and stupid that I can’t remember something as large as a COMPUTER, how am I going to remember little things like saving it back to the server rather than my harddrive? Besides that, I use Word Perfect on Buster though he also has Word. Brannagh only has Word Perfect, and my machine at work only has Word. That means constantly saving it as a Rich Text Format document, thereby fucking up the formatting every time I save it between programs. The formatting’s perfect on Buster as it is, and I don’t want to fuck that up. I hate switching between programs anyway; all the shortcuts are different and that pisses me off. Plus I hate using Word. Reason three why it’d never work is that one of the all-time biggest reasons why I use Buster at work is because he has no access to the internet. Sure, I could download ISU’s bastardized version of McAfee and that @#$%^&* Cisco Clean Agent piece-of-mother-fuck-goddamned-retarded-shit and install them on Buster so I could access ISU’s network, but god-fucking-dammit I had a hundred million problems with those programs and ended up completely wiping my machine to get rid of them. Besides, without the internet on Buster, I’m less likely to waste time checking my e-mail or reading comics or looking up dumb shit like the name of that actress who played in that one old movie with that guy back in the 1930s and then who her kids were. No internet means no fucking around. It’s another reason why there are no games installed on Buster aside from the ones which come with Windows. So while it’s an awesome suggestion which would probably work for anyone else under any other circumstances, I’ve gotta say that there’s no way in hell it’d work for a computer-retarded, braindead little twerp like me. I mean, I pretty much used that method with another project by using Google mail, just sending myself the documents and then redownloading them and resending them when I needed too. It’s a great idea, really, but I don’t trust it with my thesis. And as the recent power surges have taught me, battery back-up is nice, and we can’t afford a UPS or two, even less so for one for the office. I’ll stick with Buster.

And now that I’ve waxed on long enough, I need to go get more of this *rice* dish freak that I made and get back to chapter two. Time for caffeine!!

Thesis counter: 27/39       Insult of the day: connasse (women only) ‘idiot, bitch’