I feel so much more organized now that I have a Trello board set up for me and Rosanna. I just need to figure out how to make it to where Rosanna can add and move tasks around on it herself too. Nonetheless, having a point of reference like that so we can know what we both need to do has made our research process feel less overwhelming.

Rosanna sent me her transcript from the interview she had with Gene, the archivist at Ramsey Library. I made some minor edits to it as I read along.

I still haven’t heard back from Stacia Harris from the Buncombe County School Board. She’s the person I need to contact to get a hold of any documents pertaining to our case that BCS possesses. So far, it sounds like all they have is the written complaint. That’s the impression I got for Susanne Swanger’s email. Hopefully there’s more than that though. I’m not sure what else to do as far as the school board goes.

I got a hold of Ken from Pack Memorial Library. He said that things are super busy on his end, but he can talk to me on Friday. I emailed him back with some times that would work for me. It’ll most likely be a phone interview. He said he’d do some research on check-out statistics for The Bluest Eye.

To my knowledge, Rosanna is getting an interview set up with Eric Grant from Buncombe County.

I was going to get some research done on Toni Morrison for the literary biography page we plan to have on the website for our case study.

I get a feeling I should email Dr. James again about the Toni Morrison interview we were going to conduct with her. It’s not a hot plate item and I know a lot of the classes she’s teaching are pretty research intensive (which creates a lot of work for her too), but I just have a hunch I should follow up about it to make sure we at least stay on her radar.

I know we are technically getting things done, but I feel like I haven’t at the same time. The only comfort I have is that we started this early. It’s a lot of work and everything is going much more slowly than I thought it would originally, but we’ll get it done.