Still no answers on the computer front. The part Nick needs to see if my hard drive can function on his desktop arrived today, so hopefully I will have an answer tonight. If it works, all is well and I can begin the arduous process of outlining my literature review. If the hard drive itself is defunct, all my Endnote (bibliographic software) entries for the past three years have gone away. It is at that point that we pay someone a ridiculous amount of money to use a scanning electron microscope on all the drive's plates to retrieve as much information as possible. Sigh.
On the bright side, my advisor liked Chapter 1 for the most part and is suggesting only cosmetic changes. Unfortunately, the other two committee members are going to be unavailable when I am in New York next week, which means I wasted a lot of money on a hotel that I didn't have to (prepaid Internet rates do have their downside). This whole commuting thing is not for the faint of heart of the weak of pocketbook. I don't understand how NYLONs do it.
So yeah. That's about all that's going on as far as the dissertation goes. I am now focusing on (a) creating preliminary typologies for my data set, (b) praying for the safe return of my hard drive, (c) working on a presentation I have to give at the National Association of Gifted Children annual conference, and (d) figuring out how to reconcile the data I have with the data my proposal assumed I would get. (Lesson number one for the qual. researcher: NEVER expect or anticipate findings. Especially do not allow those assumptions to shape your dissertation proposal).
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Pain. Either way, let me know where the communal pool to get you a backup hard drive is--have been there and data loss is just about the worst feeling.
-- neil
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