Writing in Progress: Do Not Disturb

The day could have gone better. Just after commenting to everyone in the room on how great it is to be doing the dissertation camp because I can do away with all outside distractions, I got a flurry of calls from a university administrator about my grant and how this and that needs to get done RIGHT NOW or the whole world will explode! (That's how it feels to deal with her sometimes, anyway.) It's hard to be in the right mindset when you constantly have to leave the room to focus your attention elsewhere. 

I am also relying on my undergraduate research assistants to continue the study while I am at the dissertation camp, which is going just about as well as you would expect. After a trip to Macbride and back and receiving a series of "I messed this up" texts from my RA, I am feeling unmotivated to do much of anything except eat cake. 

So, now that the excuses are out of the way, here is what I accomplished today (red=finished, bold=in progress): 

I. Introduction
II. Pre-World War II
III. Post-World War II
IV. 1979: Contemporary evolutionary cognitive archaeology begins
    A. What is a Piagetian framework?
    B. Parker and Gibson's (1979) application of the Piagetian developmental model
    C. Wynn's (1979) application of the Piagetian model
V. 1980s: A Piagetian framework
    A. Examples
    B. Critiques     
    C. Intelligence vs. cognition
VI. 1990s in Europe
VII. A coming of age in the US
VII. New approaches of new millennium
VIII. Introduction of neuroimaging techniques
IX. Summary

I think I wrote 1 1/2 pages today. I finished one of my sections faster than expected, and I did not think to bring the books I need to begin the next section. I met my daily goal that I set for myself. I cheated a little because I decided that I could probably move the intelligence vs. cognition subsection to a later section. I'm going to try to get through the readings I need to write the next section tonight, and my goal for tomorrow's camp is to finish Section V.