Forward momentum and a discovery

I'm feeling so good about this meter thing, that I added a second one to consider the entire dissertation. Woo-hoo!

And then I realized that the progress looked the same. I forgot that I have to update the % as well as the numbers. Doh! I am an rhetorician, afterall. I don't seem to perform simple arithmetic functions well. Maybe I can find a calulator widget to build into the blog.

November 1

Ok, so I blew writing on the blog daily immediately. In my defense, I actually did work for about 15 hours yesterday. I knocked off just before midnight when I got to thinking that my brain had both the I.Q. and consistency of a jellyfish.

I wrote job letters like a crazy person, stuffed envelopes and managed to post 24 job applications yesterday. Although it wasn't directly dissertation work, it was intellectual work, and I managed to generate a crap-load of words. When I updated my writing progress, I was honest, though. I didn't include the addresses and stuff I pasted into the letters, and I didn't re-count words that became part of my letter template (my dissertation description, for instance).

Participating in the dissertation writing month is proving to be a great motivator. I've probably accomplished more getting ready for the month and on the first day than I might have in a week. One thing though. Shouldn't 4012 words look like a larger chink on the meter? ;-)