Since early in the summer, I've been poring over the genealogy records I have access to from my father and slowly (and I mean it when I say slowly) entering them into wikitree. I've been ever so pleased with this free wiki-based website, especially since it does a good job of preserving the privacy of living family members and of others, but it ( Read more... )

... I really didn't get much substantial work done this January with reference to my more academic behaviours: sure I got a few abstracts off to conferences, and got my thesis proposal approved, and I guess I also presented at the Forum for Information Professionals, but all things told, I did probably the minimum of what was necessary on the ( Read more... )

And really most of my behind-ness lies in three areas: school related stuff, online related stuff, and cleaning/organizing related stuff. Obviously thesis stuff now that it has deadlines, and research assistant stuff (also with deadlines) will have to get dealt with in the short term ( Read more... )

Okay so as many of you know, my roommate's packing her things to move out, and I get the place to myself starting November 1st or thereabouts. And, well I'm in the midst of a school year which means I'm having a hard time balancing everything -- not that I don't balance what matters, but I really want to be doing a better job. I mean school, work ( Read more... )

... or is it just that my job suits me rather well? Lately I've been remarkably productive with relation to my research work. I mean, sure it's highly linked to my academic career, but whatever -- I do get paid after all, and if I were traveling any less, there would be far more weeks of my working full time on it this summer. I do like the pay ( Read more... )