It's now 6:45 and I'm back at my computer. Maryland just beat Xavier to earn a trip back to the Sweet 16. It was an exciting game and I enjoyed it with a tomato and basil pizza, peanut butter M&Ms and diet Sprite. I had a great 2 hour break. Before the game, I spent an honest 3 hours working on article summaries. I'm getting better at doing them faster and I feel great about it. Now, I'm back to work and I'll do some more. None of the TV shows Rebecca and I watch on Sunday are on tonight: Alias, Criminal Intent, and Boomtown. But, when she comes home with the girls and puts them to bed, I suppose we will watch something on tape, probably around 9pm. I've got a little over 2 hours to work.

It is now Sunday noon. Last night, Rebecca came home with the girls from a party around 10:30 and put them to bed. Then at 11:00 we watched TV for an hour -- another L&O edpisode. Then she went to bed and I read the news and sports online for about an hour. Then, I converted my PowerPoint notecards to a web page and sent the link to my advisor.

Here is the text of an email interaction I have had with my advisor.

--- On Sunday, March 23, 2003, at 12:54 AM, Daniel Rozmiarek wrote:

Dr. Macarthur,

I've finished notecards on almost all of Mayer's studies. The process has turned out to be really helpful in organizing all the issues and information. I created them as PowerPoint slides, which was helpful to me because it sort of limited how much I could write about each article. I converted it to a web page and posted it to my website for you to see. If you would like me to send you the PowerPoint file, I could do that. Or I could convert it to a Word file and send it, or I could print them out and FAX it to you. Whichever is easiest for you to read is fine with me.

Here is the URL of the website.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/danielroz/dissertation/notecards/Notecards_files/frame.htm

I will be updating it as I finish more articles.

Daniel

>> at 10:52 this morning he replied:
--- Charles MacArthur wrote:
Daniel,

I read the cards you produced so far. They seem clear and have the info you will need to write the review. When will you be finished with the cards? The next task is to sort them and arrange your argument. Then you can write.

Skip MacArthur

>>
And I just wrote back to him...

Dr. MacArthur,

I don't know when I'll be finished with the cards. I'm working on them now and Rebecca is taking the girls to visit grandma for the day, so I'll have all afternoon to work.

At this point I'm just trying to focus on keeping going. If I start to worry about how much left I have, I tend to get overwhelmed and give up.

I'll keep you posted.

Daniel

>>

It's now 12:08 and I'm going to post this and get back to work. The University of Maryland plays Xavier this afternoon at 4:40 ET in the second round of the NCAA tournament. I hope to have enough finsihed by then that I can feel good about watching. But, I'll probably watch anyway. I've got 4 and half hours.