One month already?

[twilight33]

I've been a graduate student for a month as of today. Thanks to a mini-invasion of moisture ants the past few days, we still have yet to have a 'normal' week for over a month and won't at this rate until around October 25th with more Texas, a conference and midterm papers (oh my).

Two very important things I've learned:

1. My laptop held outward is an awesome flashlight for walking down a hall and up the stairs as it's powering down, shutting off exactly when I get to the end table I put it on upstairs.

2. I have completely sold out to Thomson. I have stronger feelings for EndNote X than any sane person should, in addition to a horrible bias for Expanded Academic ASAP since it exports citations to EndNote although it always puts the journal name as a note.

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[nlguy.livejournal.com]

That looks kinda cool, actually. I'm downloading a trial version now (I said I was referred by a librarian ;).

[twilight33]

aww :) I'm a far cry from the real deal but if you hate hunting down & managing herds of PDFs and formatting bibliographies in multiple formats as much as I do, this makes life much easier.

If you want to buy it later, be sure to compare against AcademicSuperstore.com. They come in $10 cheaper plus no shipping/sales tax than most university bookstores.

You are such a geek....

[tim-wright.livejournal.com]

But Endnote is wonderful, in fact it has almost lifted me to orgasmic heights in moments of referential bliss (but there's usually a let down (call it a little death, if you will) as it is still a bit buggy with Word on the Mac, although I've been told the latest version is stabler.

And you should just see the faces of historians as you explain what Endnote can do for them—I think I'm personally responsible for a half dozen sales this quarter already.

Finally, dig into your manual, I think you should be able to remap that field to work correctly (you, alas, are not the only Endnote geek). ;)

Re: You are such a geek....

[twilight33]

I haven't explored the full depth and breadth of X yet, but I'm certain there will be aptly *censored* moments to come. Thank you for that lovely visual of Victoria & Albert for the next paper I write :P