Almost back to the diss

Well, with the second of the fellowship applications drafted, and the first due on Wednesday, I'm almost back to working on the dissertation. And a good thing too- I'm hoping to have the chapter drafted by the time I leave for Thanksgiving break, and there's much to be done between now and then! Among them is still a lot of the database to be completed. It feels very good to be back in primary sources again, though, rather than having to deal with yet another iteration of the prospectus.

So, with hope for much more progress on the chapter this week, I'll sign off with a quote from Clelia Mosher about fatigue:

"Fatigue: Dr. Hodge has shown that there is an actual using up of the cell substance in the brains of bees and swallows during the day’s activities. The exhausted cells, rested and fed, were seen to return to apparently normal condition. I take it that these studies suggest what proper periods of rest and proper food alternated with suitable activity may do for woman. The tendency to burn the candle at both ends, to cut short period of rest and sleep, to hurry with our omit meals, to increase unduly the periods of activity, means simply taking away the time needed for the restoration of the cell substance used up by the legitimate activities of the day. The disregard of regular habits of eating and sleeping means ultimately, for the woman who habitually ignores these requirements, nervous bankruptcy."

(Clelia Duel Mosher, The Health and the Woman Movement The Woman's Press, 1918) p 40-41.