elanya

Well, I'm here before eleven - I'll consider that a win.

I have a bunch of things I want to do today, other than just working on artifact processing.

-talk to donny about teaching next year (again)
-talk to Kevin about money (again), ha.

...I'm sure there was more.

Anyway. I got an email from my dad this morning asking em about summer plans. Then I was talking to Ryan, who is moving, and both these things have been making me think.

I really really enjoy/prefer living on my own, but I know I can live with people. However I have a shit ton of Stuff, and two pets. I'm not exactly a slob, but I'm not the neatest person in the world either. I like having my own space, and then some. On the other hand, if the rent is going to go up again this year, as it has ever year since I moved in, then where I'm at is less attractive. Even if moving would mean having to paint my walls :p

I still don't know what I am going to do this summer. My grandmother is ill - still in the hospital after her fall a month or so ago. I'd like to see her, and maybe my dad. But there are also other peeps that I haven't seen in forever (Julie and Steve!) that I'd like to see (well, also Jodie and Stephen and Kiera, but that's even more of a pipe dream). And also Underworld @_@

Ugh.

Oh also I got my Glasscock rejection letter. Yeah, don't be discouraged from applying ion the future, my ass :p

Things to email Cindy:
signed and scanned application form [FIX AIRFARE TO MATCH DESCRIPTION - 2124]
project description/budget
Expedia quote
Malcolm housing e-mail.

Frickin' took long enough, but it is done -_-

I think that is all!

I have decided not to worry about Wenner Gren. I don't think I could make a proposal good enough in the time I have remaining that would be successful.

Instead i will worry about submitting a new INA application - they are due Nov....5? 15? I need to cvhurn out a no-more-than 5 page report on my last year though. This would be pretty easy, as I already have some materials prepared.

That's not what I meant by 'fail.' That refers to the fact that I aggravated my allergies last night with too many facefulls of wood smoke, then was up waaaaay late, and therefore when i got up to take J to the dog park, I was very sniffly despite a claritin.... Merc gave me a sudafed and since I got home all I have done is sleeeeep. I got up because it was three and I have gotten nothing done all day. I am still stupid tired (in all senses of that word combination), and do not see any real productivity n my future today. Fail -_-

I am about to have lunch, maybe that will help. If I feel competent I may at least try some sewing/costuming stuff,. but that's not always the best thing to do ill either -_-

Also... I forgot to take my camera to the dog park. And I'm still sniffly. :/

I have one section left on my NSF - the data access plan.

and that's it!

Then I can concentrate on my upcoming prelims D: First written is on the 6th
However..... I haven't heard anything from Dr. D, and he is never around when I check D:

I was going to do a proper progress report but I keep forgetting and now I am toooo sleepy ;_;

zzzzz

Questions i need to e-mail people about

NSF:
schedule, importance of involvement of supervisor, publications

Bahamas:
formality of permissions (get on this now!) - e-mail or written?

Tonight:
Summary, my biosketch, budget review

Things to fix in NSF:
include references to my field experience when discussion the survey - Whitton and Bath, also buttermilk

I actually had to check what I had done at the last report to see how much I've done, bleh. I'm losing track - but I'm going to fake some optimism and say that it is because I've just been doing soooo much :V

read:
The rest of South
Most of Greene and Morgan
Gould's Social History of Ships
The La Belle book
half of the wrong book on the Pepysian Navy (ARGH, just realized that :p)
about a quarter of Sweet Negotiations, a rather random inclusion on my At. Hist. reading list

Wrote:
Hypotheses for HIAS
started an e-mail to GT

Other: Attended a seminar on NSF grants...

Not enough on NSF, or other grants

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...

No Wenner Gren for me....

So, I guess I won't be doing my fieldwork in the spring at this point. I won't have time to process NSF money by then.

So, hmm.

The upside is that the reviewer comments could be helpful for strengthening my NSF proposal. If I can figure out how to respond to them, anyway.

*sigh*

I am sick. I feel better tonight than I have all day, but still kind of crappy. Thankfully(?) I was able to pretty much sleep all day, or at least doze, wth my puppy curled up at my feet. She is sitting beside me on the bed as i type this. Total sweetheart.

In order that my weekend not be a total write off, I have been looking over an NSF application prepared by one of my colleagues. I may poke around a bit more at mne in a bit. or I may do some history readings.

I also submitted Cursed Wreck to Arkham Tales, a new lovecraftian horror mag that curtana put me on to a while ago. This was prompted by my finaly receiving my first copy of Cemetery Dance magazine, which I ordered.... Dark aeons ago ;p I thiik they are more likely to like Shadow of a Place, and it isn't ridiculously long, the way CW is (7200 words! Yikes!). I should get it ready and print and sibmit it. I'm still waiting to hear back about Keep Off the Grass, but that (probably rejection ;p) should come any day now. I still don't know where I should try Soul Proprietor.

I started writing a Steam Punk story on the way to TO, but I haven't looked at it since. And I have all my TF fics and abandoned serials.... :/

I would like to try and set up a more scheduled creative writing time, but I think I'd do better at it if I had some external support. I suspect it will be a nice break from working on grants and so forth. Speaking of, I should get to work on something like that, shouldn't I :/

So then - gonna read 2 history articles and then poke at NSF.

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