On page 36 my paper (231 citations of research!), and I just finished the famine section. As I just told Julia, I'm finally getting to the "doom and gloom," "death and destruction" part of my paper. It's like the exciting reward for reading through the first 30 pages of potentially (given the person's interests) boring material ( Read more... )

Here it goes again...
I'm on page 32, and I'm ready to finish this sucker today! Woo-hoo! All I have left is failing crops, deserted villages, famine, disease, and unrest! Oh the 14th century. What a shitty time. Sounds like a fun Monday for me!

I'm halfway through page 26, and most of the way through the MWP section of the paper! (I think I should later trim my Norse section so all the sections turn out more proportional.)

26! I feel like I would be even further if I had worked more briskly today, and there weren't tornado warnings while I was rolling.

When choir is the only thing I plan to do all day except write and eat (though I've been doing the later two simultaneously so far all day) you know I don't have much of a life. But, it's okay, because I'm through the first two topics of the MWP in Europe section, (and they rock), and I'm on my 4th page of the day, and yet its only 2:45. I smell a ( Read more... )

THE DAY I finish my section on the Vikings sailing and settling across the North Atlantic... I catch wind of this article ( Read more... )

On page 20, with 130 citations, I have finally managed to finish my 10 page bit on the Norse in Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland, and am ready to move on to the MWP in Western Europe ( Read more... )

pages 13, 14, and 15, all JUST about Vinland...

This will be a longer paper than I thought.

Ah paper. I start again this morning at page 13. Last night I got this far by midnight, but then stayed up til one trying to resolve some inconsistencies with the different theories about the Norse in Vinland. In the process I found a report by Dicuil, rather famous early medieval writer, who in 825 mentioned his brethren living there found no sea ( Read more... )

Today is the first day of Nothing Block 8 ( Read more... )

I almost can't believe that my MWP paper is entirely organized, outlined, and started. What a week. What I have written so far is going to need some SERIOUS editing, but... I've actually STARTED. After gathering research for so long it's weird to actually have to write the thing. Can't I just show them the pile of books and articles? I'd say "look ( Read more... )