To Do List

I know exactly what I am doing this week:

• The University decided to switch from EndNote to RefWorks, so I have to transfer all of my writing over to RefWorks by Thursday.
• Tuesday is the first Activity Days for Dave and I.
• Friday is hopefully my last pilot testing for the equipment for my Hand Placement part 2 and Viennese Waltz projects.

This may look like only 3 things to do this week, but switching from EndNote to RefWorks is going to take a while since I have quite a few articles I have written. I have put off starting a couple of other articles until June because of this switch over.

PB update-Mary Ann Bull Criddle

I have ordered more PB's, with only one hit: Mary Ann Bull. Mary Ann was born 23 July 1813 in Bradford, Somerset, England to Robert Bull and Elizabeth Trout, then married Henry Criddle in 1837. She is the Mother of Sarah Ann Criddle Spackman. I found her in the 1841, 1851, and 1861 UK Census records in Taunton, Somerset and in the 1870, 1880 US Census records. Henry, Mary Ann and four of their children crossed the plains in 1866 with the Joseph S. Rawlins Company, where Henry died near Antelope Springs, WY. I know that she was baptized in 1837, which was the year the first missionaries arrived in England, but the rest of her family wasn't baptized until 1858. Mary Ann died 10 February 1894 in Meadow,​ Millard,​ Utah, which agrees with where she was when the 1870 and 1880 Census were done. Beyond that I don't know much about her.

Spackman

1. Joyce Lucille Spackman 1936 Raymond

2. Amy C Neal Spackman 1921 Stirling

3. Sarah Ann Criddle Spackman 1899 Farmington

4. Thomas Spackman 1909 Stirling

5. Christinna E Greenburg 1862 GSLCity

6. Mary Ann Bull Criddle

No PB

1. Alfred Bohman

2. William Henry Spackman

3. Cora Caroline Walker

4. John Marion Neel

5. Thomas Alfred Spackman

6. Axie Matilda Bohman Spackman

7. John Perkins

8. Henry Criddle

9. Johan/John Larsson Bohman

10. Maria Christina Gavert

11. Mattias Anderson

12. Elizabeth Larsdotter

13. John Austin Neel

14. Ellen Christiana Stevens

Need to get

1. John Neel Jr

2. Clemency Litten Casper

3. William Stevens

4. Emma Crowden

5. John Neel Sr

6. Rebecca Guess

7. William Casper

8. Nancy Durbin

9. Walter Pharas Walker

10. Charlotte Wright

11. Edmund Walker

12. Maria Antoinette Swallow

13. Thomas Henry Wright

14. Elizabeth Barrett

hand placement part 1

I am officially done with collecting data in the hand placement part 1 project. I traveled around England going to dance studios to measure height, weight, arm and shoulder lengths on male dancers to see if they are a potential cause of this crazy neck injury I have been studying. My supervising committee decided to officially call this injury the Hyperextension Neck Injury or HNI for short. I decided to give it a definition of "the temporary inability to hold the neck in correct dance position". Part 2 is inviting the HNI participants into the lab and have the female dancers (with partners doing their own choreography) dance with electrodes on their sternocleidomastiod and upper trapezius muscles to measure muscle activity. I won't be starting this project until after the big Blackpool competition in June.

I woke up this morning and Dave had done ALL the dishes and cleaned the bathroom. It looks so pretty now. I have been slacking in doing ANY housework/cleaning since March because of all the data collection. Most of the time I don't get home until after 11pm from the dance studios, then I enter the data on my excel file, so I don't get to bed until about 1am. Then I get up and do it all over again. Hopefully I will be completely done collecting data by the end of July with Part 2 and Viennese waltz projects, so then I can start getting back to a more normal schedule.

New Church Calling

Dave and I got called to be the Activity Days Leaders in our ward. Activity Days is for 8-11 year olds. In the US and I think Canada they do scouting for the boys, but in other countries the church doesn't sponsor scouting. Which is weird since Robert Baden-Powell was from England. So instead they have the Faith in God program. I was the Activity Days Leader while I was working on my Master's degree, but it was only for a handful of cute little girls. Since our ward only has one 9-year-old girl and about 5 boys, Sister Williams (the Primary President) felt inspired to give us a joint calling. It's not uncommon to have joint callings, with a husband and wife, in Primary, but this is our first. It's kinda exciting. We already started a list of things to do for activities. So now we just need to plan them and get them approved by Sister Williams and the Bishop.

Paris

A couple of weeks ago Dave and I went to Paris to celebrate our 1st anniversary. We walked from the Arc d'Triumph to the Bastille, yes that is a long walk, but totally fun. The next day we went to Disneyland Paris because we got free tickets. It's smaller than what I am use to in Anaheim, but still good.

research

My brain is tired. The last two months have been busy travelling around England collecting data. Yesterday I finally reached 50 dance couples, so officially I am done, but I still have a few appointments to go to dance studios and measure dancers, so the rest is going to be bonus.