The Chewy Decimal System | On Indexing the Cambridge University Press Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression, Volume 2

Well. I can cross that off my bucket list.

The middle of anything kind of sucks. A road trip. A play. Sex. It’s acceleration, elevation, and homecomings that provide the payoff.

I’m kind of addicted to the buzz of indexing chapters – seeing the nebulous plans of February Chewy – approaches, systems, notations – prove fruitful for July Chewy. Moreover, there’s always the high of the home-stretch.

Ten hours go by and you’re immersed in the workings of an assembling watch.

Adderall has been a wonderful discovery. It does enable you to focus. Especially when crush a humid soft pill beneath your Triple A card and snort a blast every couple chapters…

I have to now find something to fill that time, make use of that energy, swell that spirit.

Might as well try and write this.

I would read the individual chapters sitting in taverns, as soon as someone asked me what I was reading I knew I had about 18 seconds to explain before eyes glazed and began looking past my shoulder for an exit strategy.

Great gig if you’re incarcerated in solitary, though the hourly pay is likely less.

At some point,entropy happens. Laundry collects. Diets drift. One day you realize you haven’t eaten a banana in two months. You bail on flossing your teeth and dishes grow mold. You’ll get it all done once you’re done. Once this project – possibly the most significant thing you’ll ever do professionally with the oldest instution of publishing and learning and shit, likely one of only a dozen people in the entire world who has read it all cover to cover, if not almost twice, like a monk in a tower scribing scripture in quill-perfect fashion for an hourly rate of parking meter money – once it is in the rearview mirror, once it is D.O.N.E.and you have traversed the Gobi Desert and the Himalayan taverns, once you have crushed this MO-FO with righteous attention and discipline and focus and adderal and whiffadoodole, once it is in the past tense – boy will things be different. Big changes. Watch the aura glow. Things are gonna starting happening for me now.

There is a wonderfulness to being nearly done. With anything and everything. And this especially. I want to elongate it. Make it last. This feeling of seening the sunrise on the horizon on a full Montana midnight drive.

Total: Phases 2 and 3 = $2000
Phase #1 – Annotated Review of Chapters 2-43 and Index Creation and Assembly

Duties Completed

  • Perform two (2) complete readings of Word file chapters 2-43 for Cambridge University Press Handbook on Violence and Aggressive Behavior, Volume 2
  • Identify and annotate potential terms, names, organizations, afflictions, acronyms, etc. and note chapters and paragraphs in which they appear
  • Cull potential terms, names, organizations, afflictions, acronyms, etc., assembling a comprehensive master lists, one for authors, the second for subjects
  • Create a chapter location list/map for specifying where terms are found in the original Word document chapters
  • Create two alphabetical index lists, one the authors catalogue and the second the subject catalogue, authors catalogue running 115 pages with some 12,000 words and subject catalogue running 85 pages and some 28,600 words, both noting what chapter each entry can be found in the original Word file
  • Proof and review each index catalogue for incomplete names, name spelling discrepancies, eliminating name repetitions, acronyms with no full organization or associations, etc. and accuracy of term/entry location
  • Review author and subject catalogues against the original compilations lists containing the map of author entries in order of appearance, paragraph by paragraph, proceeding from chapters 2-43 in order of appearance, essentially the road map of specific locations where names appear in the Word documents to guide with cataloguing once the pagination is complete and page number identification commences
  • Final review for comprehensive accuracy pertaining to authors and subjects, making sure both are all-inclusive, correct, and without redundancy. (Three full reviews of finalized version.)