so today at work i made an amazing discovery! i was editing chapter two and andy made a note about using the dillingham commission report for a few things, in 1911 the senate issued this report on immigration and he told me i could use his copy. we'll he didn't have it in his office and couldn't find it. so i was hoping i could find it online, so i wouldn't have to go figure out if (and they probably don't) the ucc library has it. so i searched and i found it online! yay! for stanford! and to make it even better it is completely searchable, like i can type in irish domestic servants or second generation irish and it shows me the pages it is on!! so that totally made my day!!
(ok, enough of me being a dork)
so the thesis editing is going well, chapters one and two are edited, i need to do three and four tomorrow, so thursday i can write the conclusion and then friday/over the weekend i can check and do all the footnotes/bibliography - which i think might take forever! so then on monday i can print it out and give andy the 2nd draft of the thesis! and i noticed today i hit the 20,000 word count. i've added about 1500 words to 1/2 and there will be some slight additions to 3/4. so i'm quite happy with that, so really i just need to get like 1000 words for the conclusion and i'll be happy :)
so work has been good, we've been kinda giggly at work. its quiet and the girls and i like to joke around and laugh, so we play pranks on each other, watch home and away, and talk, especially about crazy mum's that we deal with on the phone! so that has been fun, i'm glad work makes me laugh, i can get some thesis work done and the people i work with are class. the workgirls, andrew and i are having a bit of fun on thursday evening, so it should be a laugh!
the pub quiz at the brog last night was fun, we did ok. but the american invasion of cork is on in full force! the early starters all arrived thursday/friday and they all were at the brog last night. but the quizguy kicked out a huge table of them who weren't playing, and the girls and i swooped in and grabbed the table, it was pretty funny. so it was a good laught :) tonight was private practice and grey's with brenda. i reallly like private practice, tonight was the finale of that so now i have to wait! grrr. but it was also the rose of tralee final, which is a pretty big deal in ireland. it is an international irish competition and kinda like miss america, but different. so it was fun to watch that, and it was cool because each girl, there were 31 at the final from all over ireland, england, us, aussie and the world, had a 5 minute on stage interview where she just talked and gave an insight to her personalty, and thats what the judging was based on, so it was neat. there was a jersey rose this year, so look out. it could be me next year, hahha!
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