Thursday, July 20 - Word Collection Day 9

The last of the folders was taken by the end of the day today, so we will wrap up the word collection in all of the semantic domains tomorrow. We have several folders from the first couple of days of the workshop that we think could yield more words than were originally found, so we plan to have groups go back over those once the first pass through the domains is finished.

The backlog of data to be typed continues to grow, though not as much as would be the case if the team of typists were not taking work home with them each evening. I myself have two folders of data waiting to be typed which I plan to work on before breakfast.

Everyone is continuing to persevere in his or her role, as we are dealing with very difficult topics at this stage. But in spite of the difficulty of the work, we continue to make progress toward the goal of 13,000 words by the end of the week. We are now within striking distance of that goal, having reached 12,557 today.

My hypothesis that the lack of water these past days was due to low pressure rather than an actual cut seems to have been disproven, as we had water all day today. I’m sure that there were people closer to the source of the water who were using it during the day, yet we still had water, so the explanation for the lack of water the past few days must be different than what I proposed yesterday. Whatever the reasons, we had water today, whereas we did not for a little while previously.