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12/07/10
BACK ON TRACK (for awhile at least)
Filed under: General
Posted by: @ 3:50 pm

My first self-imposed deadline was All Saint’s Day. My second deadline was Thanksgiving. Now, at last, the first proposals are done and have been sent. Since last summer, many things have come and gone. The work on the book and related web pages is proceeding, a bit slower than I would hope. I am still unemployed, for the long term it seems. The other adults in the household, wife, daughter, and son-in-law are all working. Between the three of them, can you believe we still cannot take home the required budget of $3300 a month. The employment situation is pitiful, all part time work, just under the 40 hour threshold at four jobs. I send out at least one application a week. I have applied for a half dozen jobs for which I meet all the qualifications. I have interviewed for three to no effect. There even was a job advertised last week to throw newspapers in my areas, no soap, no way. The house goes up for sale after Christmas.

But enough of this gloom and doom. The 1718 Project is on track! Chapter one is finished. Indians and Bayous are documented and discussed. Undoubtedly, there will be some revisions, but the structure is there to window dress. I am going back to the material on Africans and slavery and the free blacks. These are another people who made heavy contributions to the Creole culture that is emerging in the book.

The website is growing. The Facebook page is up. I hope to work on these some more this week. I have no idea what will happen in the upcoming days and weeks. I’m pretty sure no one is reading this stuff. There are so many blogs out there – here’s hoping someone will find me and the Project. 12/7/10

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