" title="Notes from an Accidental Scholar"> Notes from an Accidental Scholar

I don’t have much time, so here’s what I’ve been up to:

1. I had an incred­i­ble 90-minute meet­ing with one my com­mit­tee mem­bers about my recent chap­ter sub­mis­sion and I feel like a real, honest-to-god scholar. His feed­back was sup­port­ive, spe­cific, and crit­i­cal — I left his office invigorated.

2. I’m fin­ished with Chap­ter 2 for now. I’ve done all I can is put it on the back-burner and let it sim­mer while I prep for my next chapter.

3. I just fin­ished Caleb McDaniel’s excel­lent post, “The Dig­i­tal Early Repub­lic” on the research data­base meth­ods for find­ing trends in pri­mary sources.

4. Cleaned out my diss drawer in my desk and found a ton of arti­cles I planned to read, but never got to. I have a cold today so I’m going to track them down elec­tron­i­cally so I can read them on my iPad (see above).

5. I really need to stick to my diss map, or at least, keep it in front of me as a reminder of what the hell I’m doing.