Right, updates
As the semester is wrapping up, it occurred to me that anyone who sorta-kinda follows what I'm up to might want a few updates:
--Almost done with my second semester as a TA. Students are mostly ok but a little more whiny this semester. I blame the crappy winter/spring weather.
--My Warcraft guild has been clearing through Ulduar. We're only doing a few hours a couple nights a week, but we're up to General Vezax now, and I think that's pretty good considering our moderate time investment. :D
--Applying for stuff next year. If nothing else I'll be a TA again for the Anthro department, but I'm hoping for something in another department so I can save that extra Anthro semester in case I need it later. I'll let you know when I find out what's going to happen. I'll be here in Madison through next year to finish prelims and to apply for grants to do my dissertation research.
--I did find funding for a summer trip to do a language program in Russia. Woohoo! I'll be in Vladimir in June and July, coming back to the States around August 4th. E-mail me an address if you want a postcard. :)
--And I'll be moving to a new apartment in August--HOORAY. Hopefully that will mean no more neighbors from an outer circle of Hell. (My current ones could have been worse....but I would probably have committed some kind of assault on them if they had been. I will not miss them over the summer and I hope they all come down with painful but non-fatal afflictions. Perhaps as a result of having a noisy fucking menagerie living with them, or due to alcohol poisoning from the weekend-long bouts of beer pong.)
--If I get a digital camera someday, I'll put up some pictures of stuff.
--If you're in Madison in mid-August, we're getting some drinks.
--Almost done with my second semester as a TA. Students are mostly ok but a little more whiny this semester. I blame the crappy winter/spring weather.
--My Warcraft guild has been clearing through Ulduar. We're only doing a few hours a couple nights a week, but we're up to General Vezax now, and I think that's pretty good considering our moderate time investment. :D
--Applying for stuff next year. If nothing else I'll be a TA again for the Anthro department, but I'm hoping for something in another department so I can save that extra Anthro semester in case I need it later. I'll let you know when I find out what's going to happen. I'll be here in Madison through next year to finish prelims and to apply for grants to do my dissertation research.
--I did find funding for a summer trip to do a language program in Russia. Woohoo! I'll be in Vladimir in June and July, coming back to the States around August 4th. E-mail me an address if you want a postcard. :)
--And I'll be moving to a new apartment in August--HOORAY. Hopefully that will mean no more neighbors from an outer circle of Hell. (My current ones could have been worse....but I would probably have committed some kind of assault on them if they had been. I will not miss them over the summer and I hope they all come down with painful but non-fatal afflictions. Perhaps as a result of having a noisy fucking menagerie living with them, or due to alcohol poisoning from the weekend-long bouts of beer pong.)
--If I get a digital camera someday, I'll put up some pictures of stuff.
--If you're in Madison in mid-August, we're getting some drinks.