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I just read Joe Flatman's paper "Cultural Biographies, Cognitive Landscapes, and Dirty Old Bits of Boat," And it just about makes me want to cry that I am here and not at UCL. One of the main reasons I am going to SHA this year is that I want to have a chance to meet him and talk to him.

*sigh*

Well... I was just poking around the UCL website a bit, and it tells me that final selection for the ORS stuff isn't decided until late May and applicants can be expected to know the outcome by the end of June -_-

Well, that's aggravating...

On with the thesising!

Some of you may recall my great aggravation at not being able to determine what the heck 'bisques' meant in the Barcadares site that I am using for my thesis. So yeah, this happened because I got around to actually asking the guy whose stuff I am using. Heh.

Yay! I feel so enlightened! For those of you who care, it was used to refer to ceramics that the glaze had flaked off, as I suspected. Woot! This is perfect timing as my plan for the rest of the day is to work on revising just those very chapters :)

In other non-bisque news, I have already run several errands, including submitting my ors scholarship application thingy. I really hope it gets there by the deadline (April 1, so Saturday), and that I hear back quickly.

I did my US taxes tonight. I think it is all correct :o I guess I technically still have to do state taxes. You know I don't think I did them last year. Oops? Well it isn't like I owed them anything :p Maybe I should not do them this year either? Finding the stuff I need would be *effort* ;)

So I still need to do Canadian taxes, which is always more of a hassle. I need to track down the 'Tuition Fees and Education - University Outside Canada' form again, and after that I'm probably safe to load up netfile. The most annoying thing is that I can't remit over the net at all! Ahh well. I will probably get monies back. I can't imagine why I wouldn't...

In other news, I finished my horsey presentation and managed to restrain my sillyness to only using MLP bullet points,. But I have *different mlp bullet points for the presentation and handout this time ;) The other thing I did today was send my proposal back to UCL, hopefully for the last time. I am going to focus on the 18th century port developments because I want to look at a fairly wide geographical area. We'll see what he thinks anyway. Hopefully I can start getting my ORSAS stuff together soon, considering it has to be there by the first... Well, I have the forms, nothing to stop me filling them in ;)

In the end, no thesis work today, which is why this is not an official progress report, but I got a ton of other stuff done, so I can accept that. tomorrow I get chapters back, and hopefully will have an opportunity to finish my data entry before or after Michelle's thingy.

Night everyone :)

Yeah I'm done for the night o_O

I have worked on my Horsey presentation, and also done data entry for the thesis. That translates to working for a lot of hours, believe me. Yeesh. This has been one of my most productive days in a long time :o

I am supposed to meet with Dr. Ewen on Thursday to get my other chapters back. Eek! He says they are mostly good though, so, yay! A goal for tomorrow is to send my proposal back to UCL. In fact that will be #1 priority. And then presentation. I hope to be done before game.

Game tomorrow is for taxes and data entry! Wooh mindless crap!

Yay! A boy likes me ;) I am not sure what I think of the boy in question - he seems nice enough, but it is nice to know that yes, I am still attractive to the opposite sex :D I think that at least he would be cool to be friends with, but hey, I've only met him once :o

Grr! I'm getting double booked again! I guess this is what happens when both my gaming schedule and my social schedule get busier :p Both things are important in their own way, too *sigh* Game might seem less important if a: it wasn't the first session, b: I wasn't the one who organized it, c: I hadn't committed to it already/first, and d: It it wouldnt' be so long before we get a chance to play again.

Yay! UCL guy liked my proposal! :D I only have to change a few little things! !!! !!!!! !! :D :D :D :D I can fix that up today, and then start cracking on the ORS/ORSAS/whatever it is called scholarship thingy!

Have you missed me, LJ? I have been too busy with things that are awesome to miss you too much I confess. Let me list some of them!

My days have been filled with an inordinate amount of gaming lately! Including an awesome solo adventure that Rob ran me this afternoon to give closure to a character of mine he needed to kill for plot reasons in his new DC game. It was really great. Not only do I think I did job at playing a difficult character through his last adventure, but I really like how things turned out in the end. I really like closure, and there is nothing final like a good death.

Also, I got an awesome package from my womb buddy ^-^ She sent me a hot watter bottle with a knitted pirate cozy! PIRATE WATER BOTTLES COZY! You cannot imaging my glee! Also dark chocolate and a letter :D

I left here between 5:15-5:20, and made it to the post office on foot twenty minutes before they close at 5. It is Far... like over a mile far (eta: mapquest says 2.4, but that is along the streets. I eschew streets!). It made me happy not only that I made it in time, but that I made it so quickly. I'm glad I took my inhaler before I booted it out of the house, because my chest was burning... well, that's my cardio for the day, anyway.

I heard back from one of the ECU peeps (Richards), and he thinks my proposal is good but that one this needs clarification. This is a thing I can do :)

Otherwise, the lovely and beautiful tsiankiio took me shopping for foods yesterday! And now my larders are full to the bursting, as opposed to before, when they were full of dustbunnies and tumbleweeds. what this also means is that I can have HAMBURGERS for dinner tonight! This causes me much delight. I hope I don't spoil my dinner by gorging on dark chocolate (Green & Black's Maya Gold (dark chocolate with orange and spices), from her Aber trip ;)

The only downside to the past couple days is that I haven't managed to get any schoolwork done. Nothing for *this* school in the past three days, even, though I hope my proposal for UCL will be done soon :) I hope to rectify that, though I will be having *some* company tomorrow for potroast, and the V for Vendetta! :D :D :D

It's been a good break ^-^ Tonight I thesis and house clean more though. Hopefully. maybe. We'll see :)

*dance*

I just heard back from Gustav Milne at UCL, and I have to say, that development of the thames stuff is looking more interesting by the minute :o

"The period from c 1500 to 1900 would therefore plot the impact on the small-scale riverside yards of
the rise of the Royal Dockyards, the development of the enclosed dock system, the change from sail to steam, from wooden ships to steel-hulled, the expansion of Empire etc etc: a truly dramatic period for maritime industries."

*dance*

With virgin archives to explore, and maps, and archaeology, and social history... *dance*!

All this really demonstrates is my own ablity to get interested in just about anything, if you tell me enough about it ^-^

Okay, now I'm going to do some marking...

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I have a few minutes before we go to lunch, in theory, so I thought I would take a moment to collect some thoughts about what I need to do in my e-mails.

I want to find a way to connect a more human element to a landscape survey - the history will definitelly help with this, and I do think it is exciting. I am definitely more interested in the 1500-1800 period, especially as there has been so much work done on the enclosed docks. Maybe also investigating the effects of the explansion of the British empire on the international influence on the areas, etc? I don't know, but the effects of colonialism are interesting, also... identity identity identity! Damnit! I want to get a better idea of who the people were, and how they thought of themselves. Landscape is definitely influential in this, as is material culture... So how do I bring this all together and write both extra thesis chapters *and* an amazing proposal before April? :/ I'll manage somehow. Blargh. Money is also an issue...

As for A&M, I need to tell them to yes please put my name in the hat for an INA Scholarship!

Rar.

I guess that is just about it for now. Lunch soon! So hungry ;_;

Muuuuch later:
I have sent e-mails and so forth, and am going to work on chapter revisions for a bit before I head off to listen to the lecture on people in Ireland! And then I will return and eat dinner, and work more, yay!?!

Joel was kind enough to remind me that today is pancake day! So I hope everyone has a chance to enjoy some fluffy deliciousness at some point today. personally, I'm aiming for pancake dinner, maybe apple pancaked with a little pork cutlet on the side, and some maple syrup over everything. Yum! The only thing that might foil me is that i don't know if I have enough margarine :o

Ahh well. In other news, I managed to get most of the things done today that I'd intended to, and I talked to Dr Stewart about my options. I also heard back from Dr. Crisman this afternoon, who said that he thinks I have a good shot at an INA scholarship (which would give me instate + $1000, which would cover tuition).... So, yeah, that's where I stand. However Dr. S also mentioned that he has often seen part time postings to work in various parts of the National maritime Museum, and I bet I could get somethig like that if I was at UCL and that it would make me absolutely *delighted*. And then Dr. Dudley would come and sleep on my couch for sure, hee! And probably other people...

Man, I am so nervous about all of this. I am such a libra in some ways, and it is hard for me to make decisions like this. It seems like there are just always more and more factors influencing me... What do I dooo? :o

Anyway, I'm still in a cheery mood, and there are peppy dance tunes playin' and I'm gonna go make me some pancakes!