Academic Awesome and Other Observations

[oloriel]

Whoa.

A black man leads America, a gay woman leads Iceland, and a female head of government scolds the pope, and the pope obeys.

These are the days, guys.

(Edited for the nitpicker.)

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I am ridiculously euphoric today because I made some major headway on my term paper (considering that the term ends tomorrow and the paper is due on March 31st). I will have to turn in my membership card to the Procrastinator's Club. I ploughed through the mini-corpus we assembled in class, and got through two thirds of it, and found loads of data half of which supports my thesis and half of which contradicts it, which is awesome because it means I can do discussion and conjecturing. I could probably fill those 20 pages ALREADY.
But of course now I've tasted blood and want MOAR. Our corpus is, as I said, very small - a bit over 45,000 words, and only two texts per genre - and while I already have useable results, I want them to be at least vaguely representative, so now I am shooting for the stars (which in this case means the Helsinki Corpus). If I can prove my point using THAT (1,500,000 words, although to be fair only the Early Modern English part (551,000 words) is relevant for me, and only a fraction of that), it actually means something (other than "Look, I spent some time cooking this up, but it's by no means representative").

I have five points on my to-do list for the term paper that need to be done between yesterday and Wednesday next week.
Four of those? ALREADY DONE.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Now I just need to get access to the Helsinki Corpus. Prof. K. alread agreed to send me the relevant parts if I send him a list, so I will get them somehow, but I secretly wonder whether I have any chance to harrass e-mail Prof. Nevalainen herself and somehow cajole her into inviting me to Helsinki to do my research supporting my noble quest.
...
...
Maybe not.

BUT! Now I found a list of all texts the Helsinki Corpus is compiled of, which means I can actually be precise when I send Prof. K. my list, which is a really good thing because that makes me look like someone who knows what she's talking about.
And, and.

This paper is going to be WRITTEN. YES I CAN.

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ETA: Biography, other

ROPER, WILLIAM, THE LYFE OF SIR THOMAS MOORE (CEBIO1)

Does this count as martyr's biography? I THINK IT DOES. Which is awesome because it'll give me a Catholic martyr's biography (so far I only have Protestant). HAH.

ETA II: Proceedings, trials

THE TRIAL OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH (CETRI2B)

*squee*

Comments

[yoodi.livejournal.com]

> A black man rules America, a gay woman rules Iceland, and a female head of state scolds the pope, and the pope obeys.

These are the days, guys.

My thoughts exactly.

[yoodi.livejournal.com]

Habe dich mal zitiert, ich konnts einfach nicht besser ausdrücken.

[cowboy-r.livejournal.com]

The American president does not rule. He leads, but he doesn't rule.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Yes. The Icelandic prime minister doesn't "rule" either, and the Chancelloress is not in fact our head of state (which is the Bundespräsident, who hasn't said a word on the matter). We call it poetic licence.