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... )

Dear Work Ethic ( Read more... )

I'm reading an article for my Ethnographic Discourse Analysis class called "Language ideology and racial inequality: Competing functions of Spanish in an Anglo-owned Mexican restaurant" by Rusty Barrett and it is bringing back all KINDS of uncomfortable memories.

I was 18 when I first worked at La Madeleine, a faux-French restaurant in chic Bethesda ( Read more... )

Today was my first day of section.

After reading academicsanon  and going through TA training and talking with the veterans here, I was expecting a class full of drooling morons who consistently misspell their own names. As it happens, despite having a class of freshmen, only two students had never written a 10+ page paper (the most they'd written was 6) and ( Read more... )

You know, rewriting stuff doesn't suck as much as it appears to. The best thing about rewriting stuff, of course, is an improved grade, but that is not nearly as personally satisfying as actually getting closer to saying 1) what I intended and 2) something reasonably coherent and interesting. Relevant critiques make the rewriting process way better ( Read more... )

(anthropology) I am sooooo tired. This week was overwhelming, but I finally managed to get out my National Science Foundation (NSF) grant proposal, my midterm, and my professional poster with the quantitative analysis of word variance in sex ed curricula. I feel good about the essays for the NSF (though I screwed up some of the other requirements ( Read more... )

I'm packing.

This is good because the doing keeps me from feeling anxious. I have little doubt that the coming two month stint in Ecuador is going to be incredible, I just have no idea what specifically is going to be amazing about it. I am very slightly worried about altitude sickness since a good friend of the family died of it this year (he was ( Read more... )

I REALLY don't want to go to work. I want to stay at home and read read read so that I can then go and update Goodreads and find MORE books and read MORE!!! Mwahahaha.

Instead, I need to go out into the rain and wait for the bus.

Bleh.