Whoops, I didn't mean to disappear there for a month.  I had my orals.  They went fine.  I didn't cover myself in glory, but I didn't disgrace myself either.  It was all very anticlimatic.  After orals I still had two weeks of frantic work to end out the semester.  But finally it all got done and turned in, I got an A for my final class (Advanced ( Read more... )

So I am almost done with comps.  Had to move my last one up from Wed to Tues b/c apparently Thanksgiving break started on Wed, which none of us realized.  Good thing I'd left the one I was most comfortable with for last.  Came back to the little house on the prairie on Wednesday, had dinner with E, and we nearly got into an enormous fight at our ( Read more... )

This morning I took Exam 2 which was LGs question.  Bless him, unlike Dr. W. Sr., this question was pretty much exactly what I was hoping for.  I feel much better about my answer for this one.  Of course it's also the question I'm currently most interested in, and has to do with the direction I want to take my dissertation, so if I hadn't been able ( Read more... )

So I just got back from my first Comprehensive Exam.  (I have three scheduled this week, two next week.)  And, after all the worry and study and stress ... it went OK.  I certainly didn't cover myself in glory and write a brilliant document that will have them going, "Wow, this is the best comp answer EVAH," but on the other hand, I didn't cover ( Read more... )

One more week.  Cue full scale panic.

LRH
Knudson, K. and C. Stojanowski (2008). "New Directions in Bioarchaeology: Recent Contributions to the Study of Human Social Identities." Journal of Archaeological Research 16(14): 397-432.

Petersen, W. (1975). "A Demographer's View of prehistoric demography." Current Anthropology 16(227-245).

Milner, G. R., ( Read more... )

Well week 8 went better than Week 7 (how could it not), but I am really struggling to give a shit at this point.  My Arch theory class is very annoying just now (materialality, anyone?) and I am realizing that I screwed up the timing with the class I'm teaching and my comps.  Oh smell.  Somehow this will all be over by the middle of December.

Dr. W ( Read more... )

So I have one lousy article for this week.  Eep.  In my defense, I spent the first part of the week grading midterms, and now I am grading a big online assignment.  Also, LG made us do a crapton of busy work for his class, which really pissed me off and took far too long.  I had another long talk with our new professor, which as always, gave me a ( Read more... )

This felt like a very productive week, but somehow there are only 8 articles here.  I supposed it's more accurate to sat that I alternated extreme productivity with extreme slackage, and it seems the slackage was more prevalent than I'd realized.  Oops.  To be honest, my patience is just about shot with this comps nonsense (not to mention my liver ( Read more... )

Comps Week 5, 9/25-10/1

My list is criminally short, only 6 articles, and honestly I think most of them are repeats.  This represent only two days of work really, Tuesday and Thursday.  Still it was a productive week - I had to spend quite a bit of time working on my proposal for Arch Theory, I had my committee meeting on Monday and a long talk ( Read more... )

Yesterday's plan was to go then museum in the morning, skate in the afternoon, work a bit more in the early eve, then watch some Voyager before turning in.  But I just could not get my shit together or my butt off the couch.  I didn't do any work in the morning.  I did go skating and then I picked up a some groceries, and then I went back to the ( Read more... )