next stop, the early middle ages

It took three days, but Sam has sent an okay on me doing the chapter that we're shorthanding as feudalism, which is essentially Europe 500-1200 CE. With that okay, he asked when I can finish it by. I've offered a deadline I know I can meet without taking work with me to Montreal, mostly because I don't want to schlep a laptop on the train and wouldn't be able to do research there even if I did. My secret-from-them hope is to turn it in before I leave, but I have other things to get done this week, some of which can't be postponed, and I'm doing my best not to be stampeded by their having let three days slide past.

Of course, most of what I've done this afternoon is nethack and cryptic puzzles, so I may as well start on this.

next stop, the early middle ages

It took three days, but Sam has sent an okay on me doing the chapter that we're shorthanding as feudalism, which is essentially Europe 500-1200 CE. With that okay, he asked when I can finish it by. I've offered a deadline I know I can meet without taking work with me to Montreal, mostly because I don't want to schlep a laptop on the train and wouldn't be able to do research there even if I did. My secret-from-them hope is to turn it in before I leave, but I have other things to get done this week, some of which can't be postponed, and I'm doing my best not to be stampeded by their having let three days slide past.

Of course, most of what I've done this afternoon is nethack and cryptic puzzles, so I may as well start on this.

and a quick catch

I realized while looking at the outline for my next chapter that I was supposed to have included at least three review questions with the first chapter. I sent an email apologizing and promising to have them by tomorrow, and was somewhat comforted to see that the sample chapter Sam sent me doesn't have review questions either. And then I wrote four questions, which I have sent them.

UPDATE: It transpires that they don't know yet whether we need to supply questions. Oh, well, I wasn't doing anything else with that fraction-of-an-hour.

and a quick catch

I realized while looking at the outline for my next chapter that I was supposed to have included at least three review questions with the first chapter. I sent an email apologizing and promising to have them by tomorrow, and was somewhat comforted to see that the sample chapter Sam sent me doesn't have review questions either. And then I wrote four questions, which I have sent them.

UPDATE: It transpires that they don't know yet whether we need to supply questions. Oh, well, I wasn't doing anything else with that fraction-of-an-hour.

That's better

Curry is simmering in the kitchen, I wrote about 600 words of fiction in between food prep (not a huge amount, but I hadn't touched the novel in a week), and I'm muttering about Charlemagne and Kiev and why I don't have to cover Augustine (with cattitude's help), and all in all feeling more productive than I have all weekend.

That's better

Curry is simmering in the kitchen, I wrote about 600 words of fiction in between food prep (not a huge amount, but I hadn't touched the novel in a week), and I'm muttering about Charlemagne and Kiev and why I don't have to cover Augustine (with cattitude's help), and all in all feeling more productive than I have all weekend.