June 6

Assessment of goals for June 3 and goals for today: 

Friday I wrote a decent draft about a Natural Place (where I live) although it was more than 1500 words so I worked on cutting it over the weekend.  I know this is the piece I'll want to build on for my final essay, so today I'm going to read a stack of papers pertaining to our property, especially the abstract to see what would be pertinenrt and enlightening to include in the longer version. I'm going to turn my camera off and read the abstracts in a more comfortable place in my study.  

I'm going to the archives again this afternoon to get more material for my historical project. The archives unfortunately are only open until 4:00.  I realized how I need hours in the archive to make sense of the historical moment I'm interested in: the year 1979 in the General Education Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. That is why I've been spending more time on creative writing.