I finished chapter 5 of my dissertation today! That one went pretty quickly (only two weeks, I think). Now I'm in sort of a predicament, because I don't have all the data for chapter 6 yet. I have to get some on the SIMS. I might just write the beginning of the chapter and then move on to chapter 7 until I get the last of my data. But it feels so good to be getting all this over with.

By the way, A People's History of the United States as a really good book. To sum up so far:

1. European explorers were assholes
2. Slave owners were assholes
3. Land-owning colonists were assholes

For a history book, it's a pretty entertaining read.