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I have a colleague whose work I have read, who I've corresponded extensively with, but have never met. She's becoming one of the reasons that I love myself an online academic community -- the facebookers who are also dissertating alone makes me feel like I have comrades in arms. But I also appreciate exchanges like the following:

W: two pages. just two! and an edit. and then the folks get here. please, oh please, let this get done today...

N: two pages.. can be 5 minutes worth of work, or like climbing a tall mountain in flippers.

Indeed it can.