235 pages, times 4 copies, equals 940 pages and $64 ( Read more... )

 Part of a student assignment: "In mid-evil India ( Read more... )

I have 2 weeks until I have to turn in my defendable draft to the Dean's office on April 19th.  crap crap crap crap crap.  If I weren't teaching, this wouldn't be so scary but having to devote time to OTHER THINGS is causing me to freak out ( Read more... )

i found out thursday afternoon i got the job i interviewed for on tuesday.  yay!  employment!  i was told that they'd been dead set on hiring another cultural anthro (since the job is teaching cultural anthro classes) so the fact that i managed to get past such a big hurdle is pretty huge in itself.  this fall is kind of a trial run but it seems ( Read more... )

i'm currently in the office and no one else is here.  i love when that happens.  i can take my time to start working and not feel guilty for playing on the internet a little bit longer than i probably should.  it's also nice and quiet.  when i was a TA i used to love when this would happen since i shared a large communal office with other TAs in ( Read more... )

i'm now back in michigan for good.  no more illinois project for me--yay!  anyway, my drive back was the most eventful one i've had in awhile.  first, i was planning on taking 72 over to 57 and then getting off the highway on rt. 30 to avoid the awfulness that is the 80/94 toll.  that didn't happen though.  in my daze of being half awake (thanks to ( Read more... )