Getting nowhere, slowly
Apr. 8th, 2010 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceIs funny thing: I swear when I quit work at the Lit & Phil this morning, my wordcounter said 8250 words or thereabouts. I came home, I had lunch, I worked on and off this afternoon; I have written another page, that much at least. And what does my wordcounter say? 8250 words, or thereabouts.
Different instances of the same WP, running on different OSs: is it possible that they would miscount the same text, to a 300 word disagreement?
[Also, on a regular calculator, how do you find out what percentage of 8250 300 would be? What buttons would you press, in what order? I used to be able to do this on a slide rule - hell, I can still do it in my head, which is how I know I'm not getting the right answers here - but I never learned to use a calculator, we didn't have 'em when I was a kid and I've never really had need of one since...]
Also also, "getting nowhere slowly" feels like a dreadful summary of my whole damn career to date. Maybe it's just because I have this pulsing headache, such that I'm walking around with a permanent flinch, only waiting for the next pulse to strike; maybe it's just because I will keep googling for responses to Jade Man's Skin, despite knowing ever so much better; but today it really does feel like the struggle naught availeth. I suppose I ought not to care about sales figures or critical attention; I really ought not to count Amazon numbers or other people's ubiquity of notice as against my own; but the internets bring all this stuff into my house and make it all too easy to review. Especially when I really should be working.
*depresses self unbearably*
Different instances of the same WP, running on different OSs: is it possible that they would miscount the same text, to a 300 word disagreement?
[Also, on a regular calculator, how do you find out what percentage of 8250 300 would be? What buttons would you press, in what order? I used to be able to do this on a slide rule - hell, I can still do it in my head, which is how I know I'm not getting the right answers here - but I never learned to use a calculator, we didn't have 'em when I was a kid and I've never really had need of one since...]
Also also, "getting nowhere slowly" feels like a dreadful summary of my whole damn career to date. Maybe it's just because I have this pulsing headache, such that I'm walking around with a permanent flinch, only waiting for the next pulse to strike; maybe it's just because I will keep googling for responses to Jade Man's Skin, despite knowing ever so much better; but today it really does feel like the struggle naught availeth. I suppose I ought not to care about sales figures or critical attention; I really ought not to count Amazon numbers or other people's ubiquity of notice as against my own; but the internets bring all this stuff into my house and make it all too easy to review. Especially when I really should be working.
*depresses self unbearably*