well i awoke this morning with a case of the flu, so much for that flu shot i got a month ago.

hopefully this won't interrupt my work on my presentation this week. i've been working really hard on trying to find interesting facts, pictures, letters and other works of writing that will make my presentation as interesting as it can be.  Hopefully i won't bore everyone to sleep with my powerpoint.

some late night thoughts.

finished up my book review tonight. feeling alright about it. wrote it on TGAOA. i really liked the orphan story, not so much the rest of  the book though.

thinking of ideas for my final presentation, probably going to be a powerpoint because it's the only thing i'm decent at making.

going to try my best to take my final paper in a slightly different direction after my talk with Micalee about my rough draft. need to go way more in depth and find some more primary sources. i had a lot of trouble finding those but since it's based off the civil war there should be tons. still got a ton of work ahead of me.

on the plus side, i get to go home tomorrow for thanksgiving and i've never been happier. thanksgiving's definitely my favorite holiday and i've been really missing my family and friends from back home.

finally done

just finished my rough draft and i have to say that i'm felling rather strange about it.  i can't tell if i'm glad to be done, or if i'm worried that it wasn't done good enough.  good thing it's only a rough draft right? now i'm just sitting down to proof read it and then i'll send it to the printer.

i came to a final conclusion on defining "community" for my conclusion paragraph. i really like how it ended up and am hoping that it fits the assignment well.

so i've been writing my life away on this rough draft and i've gained a new perspective i thought would be interesting to add in.  Comparing the communities of the southern domestic woman to those of domestic women today. i thought tying the old to the new might be a good perspective and a new direction to really give my paper some life. i'm going to work on that a little and get back to you with how it's going.

and it's been awhile...

So I completely forgot about blogging for a few weeks and that's no good.  It's been a very busy semester for me so far and I've been just barely treading water.  With football games, papers, tests, ungodly amounts of IAH readings, weddings, dance club and choir rehearsals, I would say I've been a little overextended. A lot of things have calmed down I'll finally have time to really put all my focus into this class again. 

Now I'm about to sit down and read The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction.  See everybody in class tomorrow.

lacking sources

So as I'm going through my sources I'm realizing that I'm lacking primary sources.  Maybe I'm struggling finding good sources for domesticity in the south because there just aren't any?  But that doesn't seem likely, all those women had time to do was write letters and in journals.  Well, maybe that's not true, but they defiantly did have time to write.  I'll keep looking but I'm worried I won't find them by Thursday for the bibliography with the proposal.  Any ideas?

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Everyday I realize just a little bit more that I am really slacking for this class.  Especially with these blogs.  I think I don't write much because I don't like admitting that I'm really far behind on this research.  Also, because I'm changing my major from History to Dietetics, I realized I don't need this class anymore but I realized it too late to just drop the class, and without it I wouldn't be a full time student anymore.  So, in the class I will remain and trying to do my best is my goal because my GPA could really use a boost.

So far I have a topic. I also have some background information stored in my brain about southern women during the Civil War from HST 304 that I took last year.  And there's the books that I found on the library's online catalog that I want to check out but I'm afraid to admit that I don't actually know how to find them at the library because I've never gone to the library before.  I've got some online sources too and a decent idea of what I want to define a community as for my proposal. 

I guess the moral of this blog is that I'm feeling guilty for slacking and I'm just not prepared for this class yet.  Hopefully I get my act together by Thursday.