I leave for Ecuador tomorrow for a month. A month of "scoping" to find a place where maybe just maybe in a year or two I can return and begin a year of intense fieldwork for my dissertation. I'm starting in Quito. If it sucks by the end of two weeks, i'll jump on a flight to Cuenca and spend the following two weeks trying to do what I failed to do ( Read more... )

My first week of school is over ( Read more... )

That pic up there? That's one that one of my informants took while I was getting my recorder set up to interview her. It is going to be my official MA thesis/fieldwork icon ( Read more... )

 Normally on Sundays at 2pm I am out observing kids for my RA job, but today I'm just taking it easy. I'm supposed to be working on my own stuff, of course, but I've been procrastinating. Also, doing other things ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in Bookman's. A NEW Bookman's, with a much much smaller (but more manageable) kids section. I'm not actually here for the kids section, though. I'm here because I needed a place near campus to work where I wouldn't have to pay for the privilege. Mostly I've done coffee shops where I pay for coffee, which is usually much cheaper than ( Read more... )

I had a massively unproductive day, intellectually speaking. I was supposed to be nailing down some general thoughts about my research, like, oh, why bother? But it wasn't happening. I was overwhelmed, and avoided thinking in lots of productive and unproductive ways.

Productive Ways:
+ folded eight loads of laundry
+ cooked lunch for myself
+ went for ( Read more... )