MID SEM

Next week I'll be out of town for my final archival research trip. I chose that week because we have "fall break"* and the course midterm, so missing one lecture is really very tiny in the scheme of things. Plus, grading can happen when I return.

This means that when I come back, there will be two weeks left of October. This is the point where I start to think, Oh CRAP! The semester is half-done and I haven't done ANYTHING yet! This means it's also a good time to remind myself what I've accomplished. Since August, I have done the following items related to my own work:

1. Created a first draft of a dissertation chapter (August)
2. Drafted, revised, and finalized a paper for a book submission (August/September; this went through probably 8 drafts. Got rejected, but I may have use for it elsewhere.)
3. Drafted, revised, and finalized a paper for a talk (August/September; this will likely become the foundation of the 5th chapter in my dissertation)
4. Returned to that dissertation chapter and worked fervently to finalize it (DONE!)
5. Drafted a grant application "template" and got feedback from advisor.
6. Drafted a dissertation abstract and outline.

Plus, of course, there were all the teaching things. And having another research trip is always something productive. So really, I've done well and should stop thinking otherwise.

But when I get back, it will be time to jump into a few more things. Namely,:

-2 grant applications due in November.
-pursue some oral history opportunities
-finish reviewing my research files

I'd love to get another chapter draft by December 31, and this is perfectly doable. I think it just needs to take a far-back-seat behind the grant applications and the research and oral histories for now, though. If I keep that in mind, then yep, I think this is perfectly doable to me. Panicky? NO MORE!


*"Fall Break" at my institution is a long-standing joke. It's an official, on-the-calendar thing, but it really just means that they cancel classes for Friday.

THE LAST TIME I CRY

hellooo.......this is my second story about me...

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This story not to sad but it is really sad actually...This tragedy in kg losong,kuala terengganu.This tregedy at my home.Firstly,i want you know this story about my family.After i wake up from sleep.My father say want go in hospital.I ask him,(why father want go to hospital...???).father say=father was arrest in hospital because get haert attacts..after that, I my eye make this water fall in the ground because this feel make i so sad.i feel my father are so sick but he not want his daughter know about him.

After that,i rush to the hospital with my dad.At that,i feel so sad because first time know my father so sick like that.My dad look likes has no red blood because his face so white like make with powder.I'm so scary but i must self-reinforced.That first time i cry..

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my life

assalamualaikum....my name is MOHD SYAKIR AMADI B. HAMZAH...I study in POLITEKNIK SULTAN HAJI AHMAD SHAH in diploma of architecture and live in INDERA MAHKOTA 2 which is quite from my class.Meanwhile my family just stay at terengganu.I have a big family.My father name is HAMZAH B. ZAKARIA.My mother is WAN NORAININ BT. WAN MOHD HARIFF.I have 6 sibling,i was the last one.As for 6 member of family ,i've got 2 sister and 3 brother.

The oldest one name called HASRULNIZAM,work in INDAH WATER,KUALA LUMPUR and stay at KUALA LUMPUR.Second brother name KAMARULZAMAN,work in terengganu as a contractor.The third one is my oldest sister NUR MARINA,work as a computer technology in kuala terengganu.My second sister NOR FATMA is a clerk at KUALA TERENGGANU maxis center.My last brother MOHD HAFIZ,still studying in POLITEKNIK DUNGUN sit for the final semester in diploma of machanical study.I am is the youngest one in my sibling.