i suspect everyone who is not me already knew this

Usually, I'm pretty good at holding all the things I need to do in my head. When it gets to be a lot of things, it's sort of stressful, but manageable. But it's final paper week (1 group project, 12 pgs; 1 major revision of paper, 7-10 pgs; 1 paper, 10-12 pgs; 1 paper, 15-20 pgs;), and I had procrastinated and I was freaking out about getting things done, so I sat down and wrote it all out, and then assigned estimated lengths and days to it all, and then I actually sat down and did the things on the schedule, and, wow. Totally stress-free! I don't have to worry about when things are going to get done, because it's on the schedule, and things are less daunting when it's not 'do this research paper!' but 'take notes on these 10 sources and keep track of what references need to be hunted down'. Time management: it works.

...I think I need that "The More You Know!" banner right now.

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I'm in fandom, so I'm well familiar with the concept of fiction where the author's id is nakedly on display. I can think of examples of non-fiction where the id comes in to play, too - even written some: autobiographies, manifestos, personal essays. But never before have I written what is supposed to be an objective research paper where my id is so much on the page. I didn't even know you could do that.

( in sort of related topics, choose my future by ticky-box! )