Dissertation Work is Cool

Today I worked (for enough hours to now have a sore back) on the dissertation. I worked on analyzing the movie version of Practical Magic, * got some screen shots for the essay which I will eventually have to redo with a DVD version (they come out much clearer & cleaner than the video screen shots). I also wrote a bit in the chapter, which will turn into a conference paper for the conference I'm going to in April. I got the shooting scripts for the two movies (Practical Magic & Witches of Eastwick). They'll come in handy when I'm trying to quote the films. It's amazing what the Internet can provide us nowadays. You think-- surely, somewhere, someone has done this work for me-- and yup. There it is. So far, I've noticed a couple of minor errors in the transcription of PM, but I don't mind too much. It'll save me some major major typing.

I is a good good girl. :)

*from now on, I'm doing movie & book titles in bold instead of italics. I don't like the way italics looks on the page-- it scrunches them together too much. However, in true academic nerd fashion, I have to say this cause it IS a departure from MLA format. I know. No one but me cares. Just FYI.