Saturday, January 30, 2010
The sacrificial lamb has been delivered
Whew...finally got the second draft of my manuscript in! I guess this is why it's usually considered a bad idea to completely scrap your existing introduction and theory sections and start over: it's a ridiculous amount of work. Now it's time to wait and see how long it takes the other folks on the project (including, of course, our in-house economist, statistician, and lumberjack-of-all-trades Master_of_Forests...hmm, should that be 'lumberjill' or something, or is lumberjack gender-neutral?) to tear it to pieces.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "lumber" was originally used in the 17th c. and refers to items that were "superfluous" including fat on horses. It looks like the word "lumberjack" took hold in the 1850's or so.. probably well before females were engaged in the harvesting of trees. So I think I'm still a lumber jack, or better yet, a master of forests!
ReplyDeleteHow about...the Mistress of Forests??
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