Off the Mark

I have just finished my "1st month of Thesaurus Construction.  There are 15 classes and thus one per week.  Turned in my 1st assignment this evening too.  It’s not due until noon-ish tomorrow but I need to go look at apartments tomorrow. 

My stupid mind.  Re: desire comment in title.  As soon as I got my assignments in I told myself to let the project(s) go even though they are long term, because I would be starting Thesaurus Construction in less than a week.  Well, as often happens when you give your mind permission to ignore something it takes off on its own really thinking about it. 

I’ve been doing meta-bibliography from many angles, reading about bibliography, finding things for the bibliography, getting ideas for articles, developing strategies, deciding on a scope and purpose ….  But I have to stop now! 

I took myself to Crane Alley to "celebrate" my "1st month" of class done.  I worked on some ideas and read some articles.  One of the meta-bibliography articles I recently collected is:  Paling, Stephen.  "Classification, Rhetoric, and the Classificatory Horizon."  Library Trends 52 (3) Winter 2004: 588-603.

I read over half of it before I got tired of chewing my steak and hit my 2 pint limit.  Actually, I stopped about 11 pages in cause it was serious work.  I think it’s a good article, but I need to finish it and re-read it when I can concentrate on it.  I do find it humorous that one of the main sources it makes use of is:  Tanselle, G. T. (1974). "Bibliography and science."  Studies in Bibliography, 27, 55–89. (Reprint-
ed in Selected studies in bibliography, pp. 1–35, by G. T. Tanselle, 1979, Charlottesville, VA:
Bibliographic Society of the University of Virginia)

Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote this involving just this article as I was finishing up my 2-week Summer I Bibliography class with Sid Berger.  My paper for Sid brought this Tanselle paper into dialgoue with others.  I look forward to getting to/back to this sort of stuff once Thesaurus Construction is over.

And where in the hell is my printed and annotated Hsieh-Yee?  (my previous comments)  Clearly, it was printed and written on.  59 pages.

Well.  That’s not even 10% of the ’simple’ things I want to tell you.  Why can’t we be allowed to work on the things we’re excited about while we’re excited about them?

I’ll check in when I can.