Jeff thinks that the thesis should be turned into a book.
First thing, though, is to satisfy the academic criteria. He told me not to worry about crossing the i's and dotting the t's yet. He asked me to find out how long I have left to finish the thesis. So I walked over to Student admin and asked Vivienne, who is in charge of the Postgrad Research students. There is so few of us that it is just as easy to process us by hand. They use the computer anyway. The answer is that I've been going since 2003 and therefore have another 3½ years before the University tosses me out. This should be enough. He also wanted to know what the word count was. This hasn't been done for a while, so I've run off a new one. Here it is:
| Chapter | Pages | Words | Inc Notes | % Notes |
| 0. Introduction | 6 | 1,602 | 1,913 | 16% |
| 1. Strategy and Logistics | 17 | 4,884 | 6,067 | 19% |
| 2. The Base Sub Areas | 28 | 8,118 | 10,193 | 20% |
| 3. * The Bases in Papua | ||||
| 4. The Bulldog Road | 35 | 9,150 | 10,742 | 15% |
| 5. * Wau-Salamaua | 11 | 2,740 | 3,587 | 24% |
| 6. Cartwheel Gets Rolling | 38 | 12,915 | 15,608 | 17% |
| 7. The Base at Lae | 25 | 7,142 | 8526 | 16% |
| 8. The Markham Valley | 33 | 9,397 | 11,295 | 17% |
| 9. Finschhafen | 40 | 11,298 | 14,434 | 22% |
| 10. * Saidor and Madang | 13 | 3,605 | 4,043 | 11% |
| 11. * Aitape | ||||
| 12. * New Britain | 12 | 3,134 | 3,362 | 7% |
| 13. * Bougainville | ||||
| 14. * Borneo | ||||
| Total | 258 | 73,985 | 89,770 | 100% |
| Target | 100% |
* = incomplete chapters
You can see that there is a serious problem with the word count when 90% of the words are there but only 60% of the chapters.
