Well, apparently cramming is good for something.

Have realized, while cramming for today's midterm (t-minus 168 minutes) that I am, yes, really in the right school and headed for the right profession, as I finally got around to reading an assigned article from a few weeks ago, Marcia Bates's "Rigorous Systematic Bibliography."

I mean, how can you not love this? Or at least, how can I not love it?

Every blind lead in a bibliography, every misfiled catalog card, is a clog in the flow of information. We have blocked information transfer, not aided it. A mistake, therefore, in handling or describing information is not just a mistake, it is a small defeat of the very purpose of our profession.

I was so excited about that part I had to quote it to iuliamentis, and then spend a couple of minutes convincing her that I was SERIOUS about being madly in love with it. But I am.

And then, um, I ( went a little off the deep end )

But! I think I scored a convert. So I win.

PS: naked curlers.

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So the really hilarious part, of course, is that we're not actually being tested on Rigorous Systematic Bibliography until the final. But the midterm is over and I'm not dead, so I'll call it a win.