Notes and a Rant

- act_three now has over thirty members! And people are participating! Whee.

- I wrote some angst-o-rama Red Dwarf fic. It currently resides over here at reddwarfslash.

- My English teacher is requiring spectacularly anal levels of organization to go into this research paper.

This includes: Cards for every single piece of information that might be used within the essay with what source it came from and a letter denoting whether it was a direct quote or paraphrase. Those cards are to be separated into used and unused. Also, citation cards (and a Works Cited at the back of the paper), multiple rough drafts, and, for every source, photocopies of the actual pages that I got the information from along with a photocopy of the copyright page. All of that, along with the final draft, are to be sealed into a manila envelope when the assignment is due.

Really. What the shit is that all about? This is an advanced English class. I don't think there really needs to be such extensive precautions taken against plagiarism, if that's what this is. I just think the teacher is an anal pedant.

I don't organize that way! I'd rather just write the damn thing.

Man, I'm going to lose all of those fricken cards.