Overzealousness

So, I was overzealous with my 4 goals a day to try to meet. I did well in the first day and then quickly fell behind. I think it's more realistic to have 3 goals a day, especially if one of those goals is writing two sections of a chapter, or I could split up readings and sections but still have 4 goals a day. It does feel nice to cross things off a list when I finish. This might make me feel more accomplished. Yeah, let's do that!

As I've been writing the Discussion chapter, I'm thinking it might make for an easier read to split it up into three shorter follow-up chapters after their corresponding Results chapters, and then have one final general discussion and conclusions chapter. This would mean the outline will be...

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology: A History (done)
Chapter 3: The Evolution of Working Memory
Chapter 4: The Contributions of Neuroarchaeology to Human Language Origin Theories (done)
Chapter 5: Materials and Methods (done)
Chapter 6: Functional Neuroimaging of Early Stone Age Toolmaking Reveals an Executive Function Network (In Progress)
Chapter 7: Discussion of ch. 6 results (In Progress)
Chapter 8: Results of language exaptation hypothesis study
Chapter 9: Discussion of ch. 8 results
Chapter 10: Results of longitudinal motor learning study
Chapter 11: Discussion of ch. 10 results
Chapter 12: General discussion and conclusion
Appendix A: Subject Selection Materials (done)
Appendix B: Motion Processing Parameters (done)
Appendix C: Subject Interviews (done)
References (In Progress)

Just realized again that it is no longer Monday. It is indeed Tuesday, so I should have made this blog post yesterday evening. Oh well...

Daily Goals:

Tuesday 11/10

• Find a couple more articles for Basics of Working Memory section of ch. 3.
• Write Speculations about Earlier and Later Stone Tool Industries section of Discussion.
• Write What the Group Main Effect Tells Us section of Discussion.
• Read one article for Basics of Working Memory section of ch. 3.

Wednesday 11/11

• Read one article for Basics of Working memory section.
• Write Basics of Working Memory section of ch. 3.
• Write Bigger Picture Hypothesis section for ch. 7.
• Find a couple articles that are relevant to A Comparative Approach section in ch. 3.

Thursday 11/12

• Write Even Bigger section for ch. 7.
• Read one article for A Comparative Approach section in ch. 3.
• Meet with John and discuss ch. 8 results.
• Practice interview questions on video.

Friday 11/13

• Fix table and wording in ch. 6.
• Work on additional analyses for ch. 10.
• Write introduction section for ch. 7.
• Write summary section for ch. 7.

Saturday 11/14

• Practice interview questions over Skype.
• Work on Minnesota application.

Sunday 11/15

• Turn in Minnesota application.
• Finish edits on ch. 7.

Monday 11/16

• Make John's edits on ch. 6.
• Work on additional analyses for ch. 10.
• Read one article for A Comparative Approach section in ch. 3.
• Find a couple more articles for A Comparative Approach section in ch. 3.

Weekly Goals:

11/10-11/16

• Finish ch. 7.
• Finish Basics of Working Memory section in ch. 3.
• Meet with John about ch. 10 results.
• Practice Skype interview with Mom.
• Second draft of ch. 6 finished and sent to co-authors
• Finish any left-over analyses for ch. 8.

11/17-11/23

• Finish A Comparative Approach section in ch. 3.
• Skype interview with Vassar
• Finish A Developmental Approach section in ch. 3.
• Write outline for ch. 10.

11/24-11/30

• Finish Evolutionary Studies on Working Memory section in ch. 3.
• Write half of ch. 10.
• Finish What the archaeological record has offered so far on working memory section of ch. 3.
• Submit ch. 6 to Science.

112/1-12/8

• Finish ch. 10.
• Finish writing ch. 3.
• Work out how to do analyses for ch. 8.
• Give IPFW talk.

   Monthly Goals:

  December

• Finish ch. 3.
• Finish ch. 10
• Finish analyses for ch. 8.
• Give IPFW talk.

January

• Write ch. 8.
• Write ch. 9.

February

• Write ch. 1.

• Write ch. 12.

March

• Submit completed dissertation to John and Bob.
• Finish Acknowledgments and other formatting edits.

April

• Make John and Bob's edits.
• Submit edited dissertation to committee.
• AAPA and Paleoanthro talks

May

• Defend dissertation.
• Walk at graduation.