Vagaries of spelling

I before E excpet after C or when sounded like "A" as in "neighbor" and "weigh"

Or in Bodleian.

Because it's the Bodley, or the Bodleian library

But still.

As if spelling wasn't difficult enough for me.

I've been compiling my to-do list for the semester, in happy little columns: Donne paper, Marginalia paper, Bronte paper, Materials and Methods, Textual Editing, and Cultural Inquiry. The purpose of the exercise is to make me less stressed, not more, because then whenever I sit down (as I often do) and think, now I know there's stuff I need to do: what is it? I can look at my list. And when I think (as I often do), now I musn't forget I need to do this, I can write it down. Hopefully this will prove more successful than my thesis to-do list, which often made me so stressed I didn't look at it and thus didn't do lots of the things on it. But my goal is to make this in little pieces, and then I'll be able to toggle between things. Like my PhD applications chart.

In theory.

We'll see. I'd been planning to go to the library early today and spend the whole day there and get lots done. (or Donne?) But I've actually done some good work this morning--I'm going through Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte and transcribing the passages that have to do with reading. Somewhat tedious, somewhat nerve-wracking because there's so much other info on the Brontes, and I keep thinking, should I write this down? What if it's important later and I can't remember where it came from? But I think the basic fact of research is that that's GOING to happen, and better to have it happen than to waste time writing down extraneous stuff and thereby making my notes totally illegible for the purpose they're meant to serve, AND getting buried in the task.

I need to get Endnote. Perhaps today.

Ok, and I need to stop blogging and get to work.

Sorry if this post is unforgivably dull.

I shall liven it up with a bon mot.


uh....

Pneu.
Ca, c'est un bon mot.

My computer doesn't do accents.

And that was a horrible pun. If you don't speak French, feel thankful.

Caroline lent me Cosmo in French. All sorts of slang.... and stuff they don't teach you in school...
Ok I'm really going now.