Meeting with Jeff

6th May, 2005 at 4:48 PM

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%