I hate bureaucracy

[lollardfish]

My thesis is not done. Although MS Word assures me that the left margin is 1.5" wide, it is in fact about 1.3" wide, and that is not acceptable. I'll have to reprint the whole thing, and reformat it. In fact, because that might push it too close to the 2-volume length, I am going to have to reformat the thesis from double-spaced to 1.5 spaced, and re-do the entire table of contents. This is infuriating.

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[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

"This is infuriating."

Dang! that's a lot of paper! And printing time, and general aggravation, and and and . . .

I'm so sorry.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Paper use:

Each chapter individually x 3 (one for me, one for each advisor) = 400 x 3
Six full copies of my thesis (committee + me) = 450 x 6
One misprint yesterday = 450
One half mis-print = 250
And then today's copy = 450

So a very conservative estimate on total paper usage for my thesis in the last few months is about 5,000 sheets of paper!