FREEDOM!!! sort of...

I handed in my SSHRC and OGS applications today and now I'm free!!! Sort of... Thank god! Oh, it feels so good to be done. My friends in other programs had later deadlines (by two weeks!) and I was so jealous, but now, I'm living it up! Yay.

I should maybe foreground this by saying that I have been up for about 48 hours now, not because I wasn't done, but just because I couldn't sleep knowing that there might be other things I could change, edit, or fix up. I worked on it right up until the moment I had to leave for class, and even then, I was hesitant to click on that oh-so-final print button.

I emailed my edited draft to the professor who told me to reorganize everything (see post from September 30) on Friday, asking if he could take one more look at it to see if there was anything horrible about this draft that I should change. I got a response one hour before I had to leave the house. I was deeply afraid of opening this email. What if he said the whole thing was horrible and that I should reorganize everything again? Oh god. Panic set in. I opened it anyways. It said that this version was "MUCH stronger" (I liked the caps, that gave it a nice emphatic touch). Thank god. I don't know what I would have done if he hated it.

I've spent the entire past two nights combing through both proposals, and I really still don't know when you cross the line from constructive editing to deconstructive knit-picking. Hopefully OGS and/or SSHRC will give me the fame and fortune I'm after (HA!)...