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!