October 18, 2005

phew. draft1 done

Posted by dogpossum on October 18, 2005 5:38 PM in the category conferences

Draft #1 of the paper for the CSAA conference is done. I've yet to source some decent footage of social dancing to insert (though I'll do that easily over the next few weeks: have video camera, will film), and the supes has to look through it for me (not til after the weekend she said, but I understand), but it's looking pretty dang ok.
Once that's under control, I can get back to the chapters. The final chapter has been rewritten/replanned to discuss schools and other institutional bodies in Melbourne swing culture, rather than a discussion of camps and exchanges, mostly because the camps/exchanges thing just wasn't working. The schools chapter, however, seems to make more sense. So I've absorbed the important parts of that camps chapter (well, I will absorb them - when I get back to editing) and I have to write that schools chapter. It should go ok. Once I get back into it. I'm feeling pretty low-stress and keen to write. I think I'm going to thank Firefly for that.
[BG, btw, is getting sillier and more desperate for plottage by the minute... man, I should not have watched the two together]

On a slightly different tack, the mlx5 stuff is rolling along smoothly. Want to buy a Tshirt? Completed a final draft of the final pamphlet (program and whatnot) and it's looking pretty dang sweet. Alls I really have to get sorted now is the volunteer roster (not so hard, really: Brian's ob-con tendencies in that department mean that I've a good idea of how many people are needed when. Now all I have to do is
match personalities/availabilties and jobs.
... oh, and do all the little jobs that have accumulated.

I'm quite looking forward to the MLX weekend: it's going to be fuuu-uuun.

Meanwhile, I have a few sewing projects that need finishing, and I'm about to go to yoga (in about an hour and a half). I haven't been in a while because I've been busy and distracted by other things (mostly the couch), and I'm looking forward to it tonight. Isn't my life exciting?

Posted by dogpossum on October 18, 2005 5:38 PM in the category conferences