Still around

I am still here and freaking out. So incredibly much to do in order to finish. By Easter I need to have a somewhat complete thesis...and I will, but there is no telling how well done it's going to be.

I should not be on the internet, really, I'm cranky and go off on tangents I normally wouldn't care for at all.
Also, being literally buried in history, doing archival ethnology (actually a real expression!) makes for very little patience on all the various shades of "popular history" that are ever present.
I will be a better person when I'm done with this.

The past month had some sad news for us, a former speech team student of the Geek's committed suicide. I didn't know him..but he seems to have been the kind of easy going, happy looking person who leaves friends, neighbors and relatives in utter shock, since they didn't see any shades of this hidden inner life at all. Suffice to say, it was depressing and sobering.

Also I have been studying some older theses on my institute's homepage, particularly one by Henrik Vitalis, who won the Archival scientific thesis award a couple of years ago, and it really got me thinking.
He executes the scientific analysis really well...but somehow I doubt the significance and urgency of measuring in what way and how many times the expression "Archival Science" is used in Swedish official language. Yeah, that's what his work is about.

It makes me prematurely bitter that my own work really really feels much more urgent and important, but that I may not be able to muster up the necessary distanced jargon and polished phrasings in order to make people see this.

I have got to kill my emotions and make the language boring, or no one will listen!


Ok, bye now, it's freak out time. I'll resurface again in a week or so, either right before I leave, or from Sweden!