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

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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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 ^-^

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....

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.

Not that I can't imagine some of my proffs saying these things, especially fater a few beers, but still. Stolen from the great wit of astatine210. ^_^

( Defence questions I probably *won't* get asked: )

In other news, I ran into Dr. Runyan last week as he was leaving, and I was entering Wendy's, and chatted with him a bit about my plans. So he e-mailed Dr. Flatman to harass him about giving me money, and apparently he is harassing the Port of London Authority people on my behalf. Woot! *crosses fingers*

Well I have spoken with3-4 defense people - everyone but Carl - at least briefly. I think it will go okay and that I should be able to handle things well enough. Dr. Ewen told me a few little things that he will want to see corrected. He said not to worry about it until after the defense though, which is what I probably will do. Hopefully there won't be anything major to change and I can do anything that needs done over the weekend, depending on what is going on. This Saturday is *supposed* to be the cardboard bot relay, but I haven't heard anything back from people who want to build a boat, so bah! Baaaah! It is especially annoying because if I'm not going to be there I could have performed at a dance thing in Washington! Extra super bah! Well I could still call Maria and Chris - I didn't get to see them last weekend after all. And I guess I could try to go to the regatta after party.

Anyway, I meant to say more about my thesis. I really need to study more. I also need to give a short presentation talking about what I did for said thesis, so I guess I should work on that some. I am quite confident that I can talk about my work for 10-15 min without much challenge, but having something on paper will help me stay more focused. Heh, maybe I could just print out my table of contents ;)

I was thinking of going out o the gym for swimming but I really am having a hard time enthusing myself for it. I am trying to decide if I should just go now, right off the bat, or if I should wait and see if it becomes a more appealing idea for a study break later. I also hope I can get work done on some of my stories this week, but chances don't look great for that. Well as long as I don't fall behind again with Pieces I should be happy enough.

The good news, however, is that Dr. Ewen says that he thinks our comps are a farce and thus will probably not participate ;) Woot!

Off to get dressed and such, at least.

I also need to send people mails! I did get an awful lot of requests though, so bear with me...

Pieces Twenty Two is posted over at measured_words! I'm back on track! I had it all finished except for one line this afternoon, even.

Tomorrow morning I am going to go see what Dr. D has to say about my finished thesis... I am anxious! *points to mood icon* See?

And I didn't finish Ice - too much socializing! I will work on it more this week.

Well, my defense is *hopefully* going to be next Thursday, at Eller, at 11. Hopefully. *sigh*.

I need to get confirmation from Dr. Ewen, who won't be back until the 13th. But this still puts me a week an a half later than the date I'd originally picked. Once I have it confirmed, I will pick a date a week later to fly the *^%(&%out of here. For now -_-

Tonight I will live vicariously through Laura, who did defend on Monday and is out of here on the weekend! Go her!

Now I need to track down some water, and go buy some good chocolate. Yum!

Thesis is out of my hands, woooooh! However, I have no idea when I might get to defend, as apparently Dr. Babits' mother is dying, and he is going to Arizona, and won't get back until after the 11th. And he is not going to take it with him, which, really, I can understand. I am sure he will have well more than enough to deal with.

So, yeah. I have no idea when I am defending. My life is in complete limbo, wooh! :p