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Material Culture and Maritime Identity: Identifying Maritime Subcultures through Artifacts.

Piracy was a significant facet of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century maritime culture, yet archaeological contributions to our knowledge of piracy are few. They are fewer still in reference to pirate interaction ashore. Material from a handful of land sites with known piratical association, contrasted with artifacts from contemporaneous non-maritime sites, provides a starting point for investigating whether or not material culture assemblages can provide any insight into differences between pirates (and other maritime cultures) and those of the general land-based society. Where these differences do exist, they may provide insight into issues of identity within these groups.

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I plan to go through my ECU thesis stuff, push it as a starting point, and then maybe talk about how it can be further tested in the Bahamas :V

I just spent an hour trying to pick the lock on my chest. No luck. I guess I'm just not a Rogue! :V

Looking around the internet for keys is not working out so well either :(

I also did that thing again last night where I barely slept :p

Well, I guess it is time for lunch - then to school to re-print parts of the thesis and hope it's all good -_-

A good night, I think!

I finished editing my thesis, and made plans with C&M for tomorrow. I am going to bring over a quiche because, well, I need to use my eggs and a quiche will go pretty far for that! :o I may also make some other kind of baked good to use up other stuff. However I have to get milk for the quiche, which is kind of a pain ;)

What else did I do tonight... I was going to work on writing, but I ic'd instead! Then I posted an asston of logs. And I also did some packing. And laundry! Crap, I still have a load to dry, hmmm... guess it will have to wait until morning :p

Anyway, a productive evening, I think. Although this is the first day in quite a while that I haven't done any kind of 'creative' writing (well, if I count yesterday's Magical Adventure, which I clearly do ;) but I looked at stuff, so that must count :D Tomorrow if I get a chance, I will work more on Ice.

Things I need to do tomorrow include:
1:00: doctor's app
2:30: meeting with Tschetter
no set time: dry laundry
buy milk
bake quiche
more packing
other baking?
write stuff!
Call Blackwoods and see if I can get an app before I leave

I think that's all...

bed time - tired...

And now a message from everyone's favourite ham-star!
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It went fine. I don't have to change my signature page, and that was my biggest worry. I do have some other changes to make, but they won't take me long. I go back at 2:30, after my doctor's app at 1:00. Woot!

I think I'll fix things now while they are fresh in my mind. There! I don't even have to re-print everything, just:

abstract
title page
table of contents
list of tables and charts
chapter three
chapter four
appendix a cover
appendix b cover

and that's that! now, off to call Chris and Maria :)

ETA: They have a dance lesson tonight, so we will do Stuff tomorrow. Yay stuff! Now I think I will do some baking and tidying/packing of my house as I heat dinner :)

Yes, here I am in the Eller computer lab, yet again. I thought I'd be done with this all by now, but apparently not!

I had a nice lunch with Dr. Ewen, and ran into Chris, and made tentative plans for this evening to do.... something? Well, I will call their house once I get back from my meeting, unless I have major changes to make. I really hope that I don't, so that I can get this stuff delivered to the library tomorrow. I'm not really expecting to be able to pick stuff up before I leave though - I expect I'll have to get my copies when I come back to sort out my crap.

What else... I guess that's it for the moment, really. once I have my thesis all finished and approved and shiny, I'm going to see if there is anyone around who has a program that I can use to PDF it. I believe that somewhere in Eller there exists a copy of Acrobat Professional which should do the trick. Ahh, and I even found which computer it is on. Awesome. This means that I can burn copies to disk for people, woo-hoo! I will send copies to people whose stuff I used (Nevis guy and Barcadares guy). This will also be good for relaying copies to anyone else who might want one, or if I want to put it online. In fact if I do this, I suspect that the department will link to it online :) So that's keen.

I am wondering if there is something I can get published out of this. I might ask Carl. Technically I could go over there right now and ask, hmmm... nah. The bees are attacking and I don't really want to do much wandering around. Otherwise I might go to the library.

Bah! I wish I'd thought to bring something else to work on or read or what have you, but I was kind of in a hurry when I left the house. Anyone out there alive have suggestions as to what I could to to kill time for an hour?

Score! Hazel got a free hammy cage in TO! :D Habitrail space station. I guess Scallywag is just a space hammy - moving from one space themed cage to another ^-^

I have completed my thesis corrections! I have half my signatures! (Missing Carl and Dr. E.... should have the former by this afternoon. And I know where they both live! @_@) I have an appointment with the graduate school tomorrow at 3. Things progress apace, in other words. Now, I need food, and to go talk to my landlord, and then have a nap. I expect. My plan is to go by the school before I head to class, grab pages hopefully signed by Carl and take them to the anth department to leave them for Dr. Ewen to sign tomorrow.

Yes, food good. Hopefully I won't need to fix very much stuff to satisfy them!

ETA: Dr. Ewen is in, woot! So I guess after lunch and talking to my landlord, I will go back to school. I'll probably just take my dance stuff with me at this point. And nap tonight, hmmm...

New Pieces is posted at measured_words! I wans't sure I'd get it done, with the defense and all, but I am almost done with my coreectiosn and stuff. I don't know if I will get out a section for next week or anythig - we'll have to see. Now I should go to bed. But first, a list of things I need to do tomorrow!

-get signatures for my thesis
-call graduate school and make an appointment
-call the library about binding (costs, and time)
-finish corrections
-dance class!

Right. Well, part of this will requyirew me being at sachool in the morning (before 111), so I'd best get to bed, and set my alarm. I forsee an afternoon nap in my near future....

Shockingly, my arms a little sore after yesterdays' floating in the river and swimming against a fast flowing current experience. The river was running pretty fast (we've been getting a lot of rain), but I didn't do as much swimming as last year either. I'm kind of glad. towareds the end, we have to turn up another arm of the river and swim up it in order to get the the landing. that was the part I had trouble with, until I found out that because of the way the channel is formed, there are some very shallow bits, and where I was trying to swim only came up to my waste! However I was afraid of cutting my feet on glass or shells, and also of leeches (which in retrospect is silly - the current was waaay too fast for leeches). Anyway. My arms are sore! That was not my point. that was just a comment!

My point is mostly that I am trying to plan my day. I just got out of bed a little while ago. I need to go up somewhere where I can buy some expensive paper. I think I may walk up to and then bus back from the mall/general shopping-y area. I need to figure out how much paper I need, for one thing, and this requires determining how many thesis copies I'll ultimately be printing. probably 5, which is ~750 sheets of paper. Which is gonna be pretty heavy... I think I may be going about this the wrong way. I think maybe today I should just buy *a* pack of the expensive paper, because paper is Heavy, and then see if I can't find someone who can take me to get more when I need to print more than just my signature pages.

I have other things I want to do today as well - finish this week's installment of Pieces, for one, and finish with the last few chapters of corrections of my thesis. I actually only have two more chapters - I got through a lot of it on Friday. Tonight is Exia too, though we will be missing a few people.

Anyway, that's a lot of stuff to do! I should probably get started on it, instead of just sitting on my butt. Time for food and getting dressed, I guess.

Rar!

So. I PASSSSED! I know none ofd you are surprised, but I actually found it kind of harrowing. not the defense, but the oral comps part... Probably because my brain melted, I knew exactly what things people were gong to ask me about, more or less. And I was right. I even studied those things especially (stupid navigation acts), but my brain was *not* cooperating at all - I blame the lack of sleep. But yeah, I did pass and that is the important part.

So next I need to get my signature pages signed, which will require me bying the Expensive Paper (tm). I will get most of those tomorrow, and the rest on Monday. I also need to make my corrections, but for some reason I only have 4 and not 5 copies of my thesis. I am missing Dr. Dudley's commentary. Weird. Maybe it is still at Eller? Maybe he just didn't give me any? Anyway. I will start working on corrections tomorrow.

In other news, I have purchased a ticket (I hope!) that will get me to Toronto at 11:30 AM on Sunday, May 28. Rar! I will have a hamster. At this point I am shipping him in a box. I may get a cage for him, because the one I have in not very travel friendly, and also not really big enough for him... Alternately if anyone in TO has a cage for him, or would be willing to pick one up, that would be swell!

In less exciting news, my weekly game has been canceled again this week, So if we play next week, it'll be my last session. And did I get Sol to Arcane Trickster? Not by a long shot. Why did I even bother! ;p If he were less useless in a dungeon, I might use him in Exia Gaiden, but no... We have more, better, rogues already :/ And his spells are not the best for dungeon hacks.

It is so much easier to get up in the morning when you don't actually sleep, ha!

But its okay, I have *multiple* working hypothesis for why that is.

H0 - I actually did sleep last night. This is just a lame 'null' hypothesis, because it is clearly untrue, and is disproved by the fact that I know I didn't sleep, or certainly didn't sleep over an hour or two.

H1 - I didn't sleep because of the pop I had around 3. This is unlikely but possible.

H2 - I didn't sleep because if the intensely chocolaty brownie I had around 9 or ten, compounded with the small piece(a) of regular chocolate I had right before bed. Again possible. The best way to test this, *obviously* would be to have more brownie and then take a nap. Maybe later. It is important for *science!*

H3 - I didn't sleep because of DEFENCE STRESS! This is my bet, but you know it *is* important to avoid ruling theory, as one of the other factors might also be at work to contribute to my last night's sleeplessness :p\

H4 - I didn't sleep because I never had a proper dinner last night, apart from a Wendy's salad and the above mentioned brownie (with ice cream!).

....Yeah, time for breakfast, I think. And tea.

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