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Got four answers down, so halfway. Save that I can't imagine any of them will be as excruciating as the Durkheim one :p Should finish up tomorrow. Ugh.

Dinner, then hanging out wth Claire for a bit. May watch tv and chill, may do some marking (oh yes, I have exams to mark too, didn't I mention?), may freak out and try and read stuff for Kevin prelim :p

Honestly Shelly said not to worry about the marking, but I;ll have guilt I'm sure -_-

ETA: decided to split the differnce between studying and relaxing and watch master and Commander :V

No actually that is totally what my Tuesday prelim is on ^-^

I'm online because I need access to Durkheim.

But this question makes me think that there is an interesting paper to be written about the relationship of cinematography/cinematic structuring of the presentation of relationships in the media and the production of the concept (social fact?) of slash fiction.

I mean, not that the idea that how scenes are filmed affects how people perceive on-screen relationships (even in relation to slash specifically) is *new*, but I think it would be interesting to use Durkheim and maaaaaybe Bourdieu to examine it.

Prelim for Donny tomorrow. I'm studied out :p

*looks over notes anyway*

read:
Mancall - the Atlantic World and Virginia (bits of...it's 600 pages!)
McDermott's Carpenter Thesis
Vickers Farmers and Fishermen
Teensy both of South

wrote:
still plucking away at NSF, but only have two sections that needs serious writing - which will give me 9 pages out of a total possible ten. I should probably beef it some? I revised a lot of stuff and took out some and added more I really did write more than just half a page since the last report!

Busy times ahead..... but now I sleep!

-make notes on the middle ground
-think of questions, e-mail Dr. Hatfield - both of which took waaaaay longer than expected -_-
-e-mail mr. M to say that I don't have the funding atm, to come at the earlier date and am now looking in to later summer dates
-check and see when school starts next fall - Aug 28, basically
-e-mail Cindy to see if she knows about the courses you need to take as an international student to be able to teach? e-mailed ISS
-Look at HIAS and make some rough plans for changing stuff, and try and meet with Kevin and Donny tomorrow?

zzzzzz, come on tea, what am i drinking you for anyway :V

(oooh, watch me quickly do all the easy stuff so that it will look like I did stuff :V)

Not so much this time around. Lots going on - too much, really. Need to be less social -_- Need to be less internet-y

So:
Read Jack Greene's Pursuits of Happiness
Read most of Richard White's Middle Ground
Read part ( a small part) of material Life in America
Read a smaller but proportionally larger part of the ship carpenter thesis
Wrote about a page and a half on NSF project Description, for about 7 1/2 total pages, some of which is good and some of which is less so.

I found out that I didn't get the Wenner Gren, which is not surprising, I guess. I'm not sure if it is better not to have made it to round two or not... At least I have comments to work with.

I really need to figure out what i am going to do with my project now. I really can't see me raising the extra ~$9k I need before spring. Ugh.

On the other hand... I think I need a dal to rally, so I am going to go read. Yes...

I think I'm going to start doing these again, to make myself more aware of all I have, and haven't been achieving. I'm not going to write out the latter though - it will just make me cranky. So expect at least one per week.

So for last week, then:

Reading:
Jack Greene's Pursuits of happiness
the VanHorn thesis on 18th century ship construction
first 60 pages of Material Life in America

NSF:
I don't think I got a whole lot done this week - I went over bits and tried to smooth them out some
I did start working on the historical background section to make it more relevant.
My draft summary is done, as done as it can be until I get more of the project description done

School Logistics:
Sent emails to schedule my prelims. have yet to hear back from any proffs :p
Also had bi-weekly meeting with Dr. H and set up a more formal format for the next ones. E-mailed her a reading schedule.
Talked to Kevin about prelims and such
Sent reading list to Donny, revised list to Kevin

HIAS:
Replied to some random e-mails.

I need to print my schedule and take it home. While I am a few hours behind after yesterday, I forgot that I'm not actually scheduled to work on Wednesday mornings. That's okay. I have stuff I can do for a bit while I'm here, and make up my missed time from yesterday, and then just put in my afternoon hours and be done, whee! Or I could just start work early and also *leave* early and work on stuff at home... also appealing!

But since I have extra time, I figured I could tell you all about it. Aren't you thrilled? I mean, come on. You know you want to know as much as possible about the minutia of my life ^-^

I just found an article in the Journal of maritime Archaeology: Coastal societies, exchange and identity along the Channel and southern North Sea shores of Europe, AD 600-1000, by Chrisl Loveluck and Dries Tys.

Is is all talking about how coastal communities do not seem to have valued commodities in the same way as the societies they were nominally part of.

So yes... These are exactly the same themes as my dissertation, only approached in a different way and in a different time/place.

I'm excited! Now I must finish reading it. Hopefully it is not made of poop!

ETAs:
"Ease of access to maritime communications now suggests specifically coastal attitudes to commodities, which developed because of situation on major waterborne thoroughfares and the perceived marginal situation of coastal dwellers, in relation to inland settlement and social hierarchies."

-This also seems to reflect the findings of the article on the Lime street privateers from the 16-17th centuries in London. Badass!

-Oh, *also* Trussle's dissertation on the consumer revolution in Port Royal :D

I have now pretty much managed to get everything done that I had planned to do yesterday :p Well, I could work on HIAS some more, I suppose, but that's a given. I've felt really drained and cranky all day, save for a few highlights. The weather was gorgeous today, and I biked home, then took Jola for a long walk along bee creek. I ventured further down along the creek and found where that path sort of hooks up with some parts of the botanical gardens. There is als a shortcut to c=goodwill down that was, so extra score. On a whim, I let J run off lead for a bit, and she was good, never getting too far out of site and more or less coming when I called her, without harassing anyone. She was bounding all in and out of the creek (the muddy, algae riddled creek -_-), which was super adorable also. And she then proceeded to roll in lots of grass to dry/clean herself off. How considerate! The chowder I made last night turned out pretty tasty, even if it is not as thick and creamy as I was hoping. My lemon cake is moist and dense and delicious.

So there's that.

Nevertheless, I'm feeling tired and cranky. Part of it may be the fact that I didn't get to sleep until late last night. I think there is more though. Not that I can be helpfully specific :p I don't know, but I feel very emotionally drained and my patience is not what it should be. Maybe it really is just rehashing all these tax problems. Ugh. Maybe I should aim to go to bed early.