And now a word from my supervisor...

[submarine_bells]

Still plugging away at the seemingly never-ending data collection, and trying to keep on top of the commentary transcriptions and data prep as I do so. I sent a quick progress report off to my supervisor yesterday, and got a response from her that included the following:

...the fact that you're keeping a lid on the transcription/data prep stuff

Comments

[damienps]

That's great news to get given.

[elynne]

Awesomesauce. :D

[micheinnz]

Woo! Go you! :D

I'm being thick, I guess

[olddguyy]

"totally amazingly good" I understand and cheer for. Sincere hurrah!

Could you clarify "keeping a lid on the transcription/data prep stuff"? I really don't understand or else I'm being thick this morning.

Does she mean not collecting data while letting the transcription /data prep backroom stuff wait until later so it builds up & up?

Re: I'm being thick, I guess

[submarine_bells]

She means "keeping it under control" or "not letting it get out of hand" - which is to say that I'm doing the data collection as quickly as feasible, and almost-keeping-up with the data prep/transcriptions produced by said data collection at the same time. Make sense?

[sky_hye]

That is totally, amazingly good! :D