boah ey!

even after having spent four years in an english speaking country and having spoken more english than german for over 6 years now, there are some expressions that just fit better in german. "boah ey" is one of them. it pretty much sums up my feelings about the bloody paper at the moment: relief, being sick of it, a tiny bit of pride but also knowing that it's gonna be torn apart by my co-authors, being just glad that the most difficult step is taken - i have a complete draft!

now it can stand in the corner for a day, then spell checking, checking that i haven't written only complete and utter nonsense, and then off for comments.

things i realised once again while working on this manuscript: i just can't deal with ms word, that program so totally puts me off working on a document! everything started getting better again once i transferred the manuscript back into latex and could work in my favourite text editor again: vi :)
also, i need people's comments. as before, i feel that the text is not great (or rather rubbish), but i'm just useless at editing without the input from others. even if the input tells me to start all over again.
and did i mention that i hate writing? my aversion to making phone calls is still worse, but boy, it's not helping!

anyways, time to go to bed. cos the other thing that reconfirmed itself: writing just works better in the evening...