Ethical Questions

Before continuing with the blog, there are ethical questions I must ask myself, concerning the date of these blogs and my journal entries.  I think it is only fair to let the reader (especially my instructor) know that these may not have the exact date that it occured.  I tried to write as if things were happening firsthand, even after the fact, so I admit to taking a little creative license, which hopefully won't get me into trouble.  I mostly dated my entries on the date that the event occured, or that the journal entry was due, not necessarily on the date I typed it up or edited it.

I was sick two weeks ago, so for over 5 days, I didn't write anything in my notebook at all, even though I experienced some interesting events I wanted to describe.  So I went in after I felt better and plugged in entries so the gaping hole in the dates was not so evident.  If this is immoral, I apologize.  My only argument is that Bartram himself wasn't too exacting on his dates either.

I know I am not the only student with this problem, but I'm probably the only one that's going to confess to fudging a few of the dates or editing some earlier entries to make them more readable.  When typing my journal entries up (especially the last one), I changed quite a few sentences and shifted whole paragraphs around to make everything more intelligent and legible.  Without cleaning up the last entry, the reader would have assumed I was both drunk and on crack at the same time.

So with this disclaimer, I can finish typing my blog posts.  Although I will claim that all my blog posts (except the one about The Senator, which was unexpected), go in the same order as my notebook entries, so the structure remains the same, as well as my discovery process.  Only some of the dates are off.  Penalize me if you want, but I'm honest.