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Spring Break in the field
Look! I get to use my fieldwork icon again ( Read more... ) -
Year end meme
Im sure there is an actual year end meme I could copy, but I'm too lazy so here's what I feel like recapping instead:
favorite book read this year: Catching the Wild Waiyuuzee
favorite movie watched this year: Good Dick
favorite tv show watched this year: Downton Abbey
new friend made this year: L, someone I knew before but only really became close to ( Read more... ) -
The trip to Quito
I'm writing from the airport in Quito. It's about a quarter to 6 and I'm rocking out to La Roux and Adam Lambert and feeling like a total badass. Do I have any reason to feel this way ( Read more... ) -
Pre-Scoping Update
I leave for Ecuador tomorrow for a month. A month of "scoping" to find a place where maybe just maybe in a year or two I can return and begin a year of intense fieldwork for my dissertation. I'm starting in Quito. If it sucks by the end of two weeks, i'll jump on a flight to Cuenca and spend the following two weeks trying to do what I failed to do ( Read more... ) -
Academic articles online
This is just to bitch, just real quick while my university's library is having ridiculous sign-in issues, about how the pricing model for online access to individual articles from journal is stupid. It makes sense, in a way, that those journal cost 8 million dollars, because schools are buying them to give access to everyone. They can handle ( ( Read more... ) -
ouch ouch ouch thesis ouch
Today hurts. I was supposed to have my "final" draft to my committee on Monday but I got my revisions from my advisor on Monday and they weren't cosmetic. Of course, the parts that were crappiest were the parts that I had struggled with the most, and so they were really hard to fix. But, as of right now, all that remains is loosening up my ( Read more... ) -
Break time. Still.
This is the end of my two hour break. My first break since I woke up from my 2.5 hours of sleep this morning which was my first break since really turning it on Tuesday morning ( Read more... ) -
MA Thesis Update
I will have another post soon about my trip to South America, but today I am working on my thesis and I wanted to start by posting here on my news.
The big news is that after a meeting with my advisor today, I emailed my committee to see if they could all be down for my thesis defense on May 6th.
WHOA.
That means I need to have the final draft out to ( Read more... ) -
Back from South America
So Spring Break was a whirlwind business trip to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. Not my business, though, Guille's business. I decided before I went that I would not be working too much - just prepping for my SfAA presentation happening not this week but next week in Seattle - but neither would I be tagging along to all of the business ( Read more... ) -
Gabrielle Giffords shot
I can't believe that my Congresswoman was shot and killed. I can't believe that it happened in one of her regular events to talk one on one with any community members who walk up.
Fuck Arizona. Fuck Tucson. I want out.http://www.npr.org/2011/01/08/