These things always take longer than expected

I don't know that I can divide my focus between two or more chapters at a time. I did well at writing ch. 7 but didn't get far on ch. 3. I am still being too overzealous with my amount of daily goals. I am backing down to 3 a day.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology: A History (done)
Chapter 3: The Evolution of Working Memory (in progress)
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)

Daily Goals:

Tuesday 11/17

• Practice interview over Skype with Christina
• Finish Baseline ANOVA analyses
• Work on redoing ch. 10 analyses

Wednesday 11/18

• Work on redoing ch. 10 analyses
• Write Introduction section for ch. 7
• Fix table and wording in ch. 6

Thursday 11/19

• Work on redoing ch. 10 analyses
• Write Summary section for ch. 7
• Finish edits on ch. 7

Friday 11/20

• Meet with John about analyses
• Skype interview with Vassar College
• Work on redoing ch. 10 analyses

Saturday 11/21

• Find some relevant articles to A Comparative Approach section in ch. 3
• Work on Minnesota application
• Read one article for A Comparative Approach section in ch. 3

Sunday 11/22

• Turn in Minnesota application
• Read one article for A Comparative Approach section in ch. 3
• Read one article for A Comparative Approach section in ch. 3

 Monday 11/23

• Finish redoing ch. 10 analyses
• Make John's edits on ch. 6
• Write A Comparative Approach section in ch. 3

 Weekly Goals:

11/17-11/23

• Finish ch. 7
• Second draft of ch. 6 done and sent to co-authors
• Finish Baseline analyses
• Finish redoing ch. 10 analyses
• Skype interview with Vassar
• Finish A Comparative Approach section in ch. 3

11/24-11/30

• Finish A Developmental Approach section in ch. 3
• Finish any additional analyses for ch. 10
• Write outline for ch. 10
• Submit ch. 6 to Science

 12/1-12/7

• Finish Evolutionary Studies section in ch. 3
• Work out how to do analyses for ch. 8
• Give IPFW talk
• Write half of ch. 10

12/8-12/14

• Finish What the Archaeological Record Has Offered section in ch. 3
• Finish first draft of ch. 10
• Work on analyses for ch. 8

Monthly goals:

December

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

January

• Finish ch. 8
• Finish ch. 11
• Work on ch. 9

February

• Finish ch. 9
• Finish ch. 1
• Work on ch. 12
• 
  

March

• Finish ch. 12
• Submit completed dissertation to John and Bob
• Finish Acknowledgments and other formatting edits

April

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

May

• Defend dissertation
• Walk at graduation