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Paper is due exactly 48 hours from now. We shall see if my skills at overly-verbose BS still remain strong enough for me to get a halfway decent paper banged out during that time, or if my English major kung-fu is now weak.
Primary source research in bank records and 1867 & 1870 Baltimore city directories is done (well, mostly--I'll probably be adding more sources in the second draft).
I probably should have spent today desperately catching up on the secondary sources I haven't read, but I wanted to get through the second directory, so that I could have those extra bits of occupational data--and it turned out to be a good move, because I found 36 people who weren't listed in the 1867 edition, and who I'm therefore positing came to Baltimore after 1867 (luckily for me, their names are all from 1868-and-onward bank accounts, so I can make the hypothesis).
I've now got an outline and a set of conclusions (no thesis statement yet, but that generally materializes halfway throught the paper, anyway), and it turns out I have more information than I thought--I know I can get at least ten pages out of this, which means I can hopefully pad it out to 20-25 by being tediously verbose. My goal for tonight is to get at least five pages written before they kick me out of the library.
If you encounter me anywhere on lj between now and Monday afternoon, an all-caps comment along the lines of "get the hell off the internets and write your fucking paper, you whore" would not be inappropriate.
Primary source research in bank records and 1867 & 1870 Baltimore city directories is done (well, mostly--I'll probably be adding more sources in the second draft).
I probably should have spent today desperately catching up on the secondary sources I haven't read, but I wanted to get through the second directory, so that I could have those extra bits of occupational data--and it turned out to be a good move, because I found 36 people who weren't listed in the 1867 edition, and who I'm therefore positing came to Baltimore after 1867 (luckily for me, their names are all from 1868-and-onward bank accounts, so I can make the hypothesis).
I've now got an outline and a set of conclusions (no thesis statement yet, but that generally materializes halfway throught the paper, anyway), and it turns out I have more information than I thought--I know I can get at least ten pages out of this, which means I can hopefully pad it out to 20-25 by being tediously verbose. My goal for tonight is to get at least five pages written before they kick me out of the library.
If you encounter me anywhere on lj between now and Monday afternoon, an all-caps comment along the lines of "get the hell off the internets and write your fucking paper, you whore" would not be inappropriate.
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