elanya

No progress. I did try but I am coming up against some big problems, in my mind. It is really starting to get to me. I feel like I can't do this *well*. Like I just don't have the information I need to do this study properly and have it be at all meaningful. Dr E wants me to leave out any material that is out of period for the barcadares, so reasonably I should do the same for Nevil.... only nevis has a lot more later period stuff... cutting it out makes me feel icky, and also... All I can do that with is ceramics, based purely on type, and even that is sketchy (well and glass). just because something started being made earlier doesn't mean that it was discarded earlier. *sigh* the real problem comes from things like pipe remains. if I am looking at a particular period, theoretically I shouldn't look at pipes that come from a later period. but I don't actually have the information I need to tell the difference. meh meh meh. So I wind up with a huge percentage of pipestems from the site, but that could just be because it represents an accumulation over a longer period of time, rather than because they smoke a lot. Even with the ceramics...some of the wares were in production for a long time (1640-1800 for delft, for example), so how do I know that it isn't from later stuff? The pipestems date Barcadares's median occupation to 1733, and while I don't have a median occ. date for Nevis, I know that they spanned the 18th c, but that doesn't really tell me much

And I'm running out of *time*. I feel like I'm wasting time not being able to figure this stuff out. I'm ytired. i just want to go to sleep, but the problems will still be there tomorrow, and I don't know if they 8will* go away.

I do have another site that I could use, but even then, I just don't know. I don't know if I can get the informations I need, which is from Nevis Guy's MA, in time to be helpful. You know how bad I am at crunching. and I have so much other stuff to do now. I just want it to be *over*.

Also lets ignore the act that I still have to do my taxes, and my paper for Dr. Stewart, and that i am still relatively poor, and I still need a haircut and new shoes and to spend a million dollars on photocopies and everything and... Christ.

No wonder I am still having problems sleeping.

I think I am going to go curl up into a very small heather now ;_;

ETA (3:27) maybe I should just give up on the idea of having a control site. Maybe it isn't important. maybe there arejust no good sites. maybe I can be done with this shit sooner :p bah bah bah BAH!

Major thesis breakdown last night, but I see a few possible solutions. I am going to go spend an asston of money photocopying shit at the library.... or maybe I will just use an asston of space on my card thingy and scan the book, or the sections I want. haven't decided yet. It should be mindless and monotonous, in any case. Meh. Scanning is cheaper. Then I will go make sad sad eyes at the ILL people and see if they can get me Nevis Guy's thesis. this will probably be most of my day. I need to go to bed early tonight, but this should be facilitated by the fact that I didn't got to sleep until almost 5. Major props to Mr Cat and Scallywag for putting up with me last night. I should probably have something to eat, but I don't want to.

I went to talk to the Thesis Director guy and feel a little better about things. I will work on Thesis for the rest of the day. I may have something more to eat.

I engaged in a little retail therapy though, and bought a cordless IR mouse at the university bookstore for 30$. I also got some more discs for burning, wooh! I find it strange that the same company sells packages of 25 colored cds for the same price as 50 plain white ones. Maybe a dollar less. Sheesh.

I would like a nap but that is something I should not do. so, onto the thesis.

I am sure by now that most people have heard the gospel of Chuck Norris, but just in case, I am posting this here. Unlike the biblical gospel, however, this is a list of *facts* proven by a crack team of scienticians.

much progress was made today. I resolved the issues that seemed so overwhelming yesterday, and managed to fill about three more pages. I'd probably have achieved more, except that I am trying to operate on minimal sleep and therefore my brain is sloooooooow. I have had to remake my tables about a million times. I keep realizing that things are done wrong, and then I have to retabulate the data, and go back and change what I have written... at least it is usually such minor changes that I don't actually have to re-*write* anything. Anyway, I have the ceramics done. This will not be a long chapter unless I get the stuff I ordered on that other site, but it looks good, and it makes me happy. Yes, please don't let me forget that. I am doing a good job here, and good things, good, goodness, yes. I will be able to finish this chapter by next week, I think. There will be no question of this if I can keep up the pace I set today. however I probably won't get anything done this weekend :/ At least it is all writing now, and all writing about my analysis, so I don't need to reference anyone, wooh! that always goes faster ^-^.

Now, it is ten and my brain is not productive. I am afraid that if i go to bed now I will wake up around12 or 2 and not be able to sleep more, because it is still so early for me to be going to bed, even on such little sleep last night. Also, I don't have anything to do for the next hour, because other people have lives and I just have a thesis :/