Typewriter Day/Pink Day/Blueberry Festival (North Carolina)/Rhododendron Festival (Tennessee)
2007-06-23 @ 11:43 p.m.

The essay is chugging along okay, although I'd be really glad if it would just do itself overnight. It's like an exercise in stitching together quotations and citations. I can hardly get a word of my own in edgewise! I like what I've written so far, although I had to change some bits to get the flow right. I'm very conscious of the word count, which for once is something to keep below rather than surpass, so I have to discard a lot of evidence because it'd make my whole argument too complex for a 1500-word essay that is essentially a review of published literature on the subject. Have covered the James-Lange theory, doing the Cannon-Bard theory now. Next will be the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory, the Lazarus cognitive appraisal theory, and the facial feedback theory. Might throw out the last one because of word count constraints, and because I don't really think it works as a theory on its own. Maybe just a short paragraph to describe it as the most recent research in the field?