![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Its infections. I keep wanting to make posts title 'The day I did X'. Today would be 'The Day I e-mailed a German movie producer and asked if I could dig holes in his lawn.'
Today I finally got off my kiester and e-mailed Harbour Island property owners about permission to investigate their properties. I sent out about 25 e-mails, for properties I thought had potential and that i could find contact info for. I have had about 5 'yes I'm interested' or more enthusiastic replies already. One guy called me on the phone, which I was not expecting when I woke up out of my nap when the phone rang :V Still he owns 2 and a half places I'd like to look at, so score! Another guy just responded to my intro letter by saying "No problem!" I think I'll ask him if he wants more info, although he didn't specifically ask for it. His blanket acceptance confuses me!
I realize that I'm most likely to get any positive responses pretty quickly, but still, I'm feeling very encouraged. So far, most of the respondents are clustered in what i suspect will be a very productive area. So, score!
I also e-mailed some of the bahamas archaeology peeps to get things sorted there. they want me to have an advisor type person who's worked in the Bahamas before, and i'm getting that worked out now. So really I've spent half my day e-mailing for my dissertation and I feel very productive! i just have one more follow up e-mail to send, for now, and then I'm off to work on my August Writing stuff for the day. Hooray!
Still no response from the German movie producer. I'll let you know :V
Today I finally got off my kiester and e-mailed Harbour Island property owners about permission to investigate their properties. I sent out about 25 e-mails, for properties I thought had potential and that i could find contact info for. I have had about 5 'yes I'm interested' or more enthusiastic replies already. One guy called me on the phone, which I was not expecting when I woke up out of my nap when the phone rang :V Still he owns 2 and a half places I'd like to look at, so score! Another guy just responded to my intro letter by saying "No problem!" I think I'll ask him if he wants more info, although he didn't specifically ask for it. His blanket acceptance confuses me!
I realize that I'm most likely to get any positive responses pretty quickly, but still, I'm feeling very encouraged. So far, most of the respondents are clustered in what i suspect will be a very productive area. So, score!
I also e-mailed some of the bahamas archaeology peeps to get things sorted there. they want me to have an advisor type person who's worked in the Bahamas before, and i'm getting that worked out now. So really I've spent half my day e-mailing for my dissertation and I feel very productive! i just have one more follow up e-mail to send, for now, and then I'm off to work on my August Writing stuff for the day. Hooray!
Still no response from the German movie producer. I'll let you know :V
encouraged
(no subject)
I'm sure you'd prefer to spend your time digging and finding things rather than explaining archaeological procedure and what you're looking for to tourists, but if it looks like your landowners might want to use you as a tourist attraction maybe you could set aside some 'visiting hours' where you do a bit of interpretation about your work?
Your landowners would probably love you even more if you help contribute to successful vacations for their tourists, ensuring return visits. ^-^
(no subject)
I'd like to give a talk at some point, as well, and give people a chance to see what all we've found, and such. We'll see how it goes!