elanya

How is neither 'ocean' nor 'water' in the top 1000 words, but 'mumble,' 'expression,' and 'interrupt' are? It think that's telling in and of itself, but these are apparently words from the contemporary fiction frequency list. In any case... my Upgoer-Five Elevator Speech:

I am writing about how the living around water makes people think about themselves and the people they live with. Do people who don't live around water think different things about who they are than people who do not live around water?

Things people had and used in the past can tell us how people thought about themselves. I want to get things that people left in the ground when they lived in places near water in the past. I want to look at these old things and see if they are different from the things that people who didn't live near water had. This will help me know if these two groups of people were thinking about who they were in different ways.

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IN other news, I had a good few days of writing early this week, and am doing meeedium at keeping up that momentum. The next few days are going to be odd, because Merc is coming down to sort out some house things before I get a new roommate (another friend of mine displaced by Life Issues). So that will take some adjusting.

However I think I can get done by August. I need to write an email to my committee and figure out when I can wrangle them all and start setting some dates. I will try and do that this weekend. Next week, I am going to get my proposal all squared away and start bombarding at least parts of my committee with chapters :p