Okay on Paper, not so good on Training

Dr. May approved my study of "black" in Jane Eyre. I took Chris' advice and searched a full text version of Jane Eyre. I also employed the technique Dr. DeRosa taught me in passing. I replaced all instances of "black" and "dark" with highlighted versions of same and saved those in my computer. Boy I hope we have a lot of available memory on this thing.

I'll delete all of these after I transfer the data to my actual copy of the book. It seems counteractive, I know, but really -- I can't write a paper on the computer without hard notes -- and there's no reason to print out some 1000 pages of computerized text. I'd be better off to skim and transfer.

Sorry to all of those people out there who believe in everything electronic replacing paper and books. I just don't think I can embrace that theory for my own scholarly studies.

Lia is learning "heel" (thanks, Tom) really well, still. But she seems to have regressed on peeing/pooping in the house. Some of this is most definitely my fault (and in theory, it is always my fault if the dog messes in the house). I think, though, that some of these "accidents" are more like "tests." That dog is really smart. She knows what I expect of her when we go outside. I was busily mopping up one area where she had an unattended accident (when Dad was watching her) and then the little snot squatted right in front of Dad and I and peed in another spot. I yelled at her, but Dad spanked her -- I was very much unhappy about this -- I do not want that dog beat. I have bought into the "showing her the spot when you catch her" theory -- but I will not let my Dog get beat -- which led to another whole issue, of course. Big fight with the parents and another "get the fuck out" ultimatum. Great. We'll see if this blows over.

Gotta go. Working on still more Linguistics homework (spent 4 hours at Denny's last night and another 3 hours with Chris this afternoon -- I probably have another 4 hours to work before I'm totally caught up). I also have to work on Vanity Fair. I tried to watch the movie -- boring with a capital "Reese." I'll try again on that tonight if I am given the chance. I promised Chris I would join him for some "sitting around the fire and drinking on a nice summer evening" tonight at his parents' house.

Lia sits on my feet and licks my legs. Cute -- but somewhat annoying. Dutch is barking at the back door. He is doing much better these days -- seems to have regained some of his spark.