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I am presenting at the NeMLA (that's "Northeast Modern Language Association" for those not in the biz--and, yes, I just used "biz" to mean "dorks who read books all the time but like totally professionally") at my alma mater, Rutgers. My paper is utter and complete drivel but, oh well. If the humiliation doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger....right?

My paper is about deception, Darwin, detective fiction, and women. It was vastly under-developed at 25 pages. Now I have to pare it down all the way to 9. And I just wrote four new pages when I was supposed to be cutting. Whyyyyyy am I epic fail?

I feel like this cat is my spirit animal right now:
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I don't know how many other English grad students are out there but GUYS. There's going to be a CONFERENCE ON ADAPTATIONS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. I think my little Victorianist heart just exploded. Now I just need to figure out a paper that would get me in...I only have one paper on detective fiction right now and it's more about physiognomy/Darwin and the genre as a whole than Sherlock. And I SO want to go a conference on Sherlock.

PS -- Still at the conference but am now grading papers in a coffee shop. I make unhappy faces at my undergrads.

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