On "high impact research"

[highlyeccentric]

So I'm finally Doing Things again. At the last minute, as per usual. Scholarship application due in on friday, Awesome told me off for not getting her help on it earlier, several versions are now kicking around and being edited by different people, and I am generally scared. This putting-down-on-paper all my silly daydreams of being Academically Awesome, and not only having to believe it myself but also convince someone ELSE of it, this is weird and disconcerting.

Awesome gave me instructions to use all kinds of "buzzwords", like the awful one in the title of this entry. This causes me to reflect. Here's me trying to convince the arts faculty that my crush on Wulfstan has the potential to be "cutting edge".
Me. "Cutting Edge".

Yeah, I'm cutting edge all right. The cutting edge of a very rusty old sword.