OMG! I wish I could go back to Cali for the Herdeljezi festival this year. Petra and Gogol Bordello and Carol and Sani . . . argh.
A kingdom for a UC job at the end of my Ph.D. program.
Proven Winners Plants Postulations
13 years ago
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Finishing up the term
As my dear friend alluded to in her last comment, I am without internet at home. My computer crashed a couple of weeks ago, and since I don't have the money to get it repaired, I am just making use of the public library machines once a day to get my internet needs met.
I wouldn't be able to manage completely without internet, but I've actually gotten quite comfortable with my routine; I like the environment here, it's cool and relatively quiet, except for a lot of really cute kids who float in and out with their parents and their storybooks. I mostly get a great deal of uninterrupted time on the relatively new HP desktop computer, though sometimes I get knocked off by someone who comes along if the other machines are also being used. I find that the most important stuff can usually be finished in half an hour, and then I move along to the rest.
Meanwhile, the word processing, I do at home, on my father's ancient laptop. The battery can't run without the AC adapter, and it has no wireless card or ethernet port, and it runs on Windows 95, but it's good enough to write on, and I can save my work to an old 3.5 inch floppy disk I had hiding around in a nook or cranny.
This way, I've completed a draft of my research internship paper that I wrote for my built environment and material culture in postsocialism course, and I've been working on my archaeology exams.
I did my grading the old-fashioned way, with pencil and paper, on a clipboard, overlooking the lake. It's been incredibly sunny and beautiful in Michigan recently after an unbearable and seemingly unending winter. So it's really something, sitting there, sunning my legs, reading undergraduate papers.
Having finished both the grading and the first version of the research internship paper, which I need to LET GO OF for the moment, even though it needs a ton of work, because it's 46 pages (!!), I have to move on to my archaeology papers. I hope to finally be caught up with my coursework and all, and finished with my research internship, by the end of the spring term in June, and on to my social work prelim. I'm actually really looking forward to the summer. I feel I've already set the pace of it with my quiet mornings spent reading and writing overlooking the lake with a mug of cafe con leche, and afternoons at the library. I wonder -- could I cancel my cell phone and my internet for a few months, and hide away in glorious, hermetic, spartan calm?
I wouldn't be able to manage completely without internet, but I've actually gotten quite comfortable with my routine; I like the environment here, it's cool and relatively quiet, except for a lot of really cute kids who float in and out with their parents and their storybooks. I mostly get a great deal of uninterrupted time on the relatively new HP desktop computer, though sometimes I get knocked off by someone who comes along if the other machines are also being used. I find that the most important stuff can usually be finished in half an hour, and then I move along to the rest.
Meanwhile, the word processing, I do at home, on my father's ancient laptop. The battery can't run without the AC adapter, and it has no wireless card or ethernet port, and it runs on Windows 95, but it's good enough to write on, and I can save my work to an old 3.5 inch floppy disk I had hiding around in a nook or cranny.
This way, I've completed a draft of my research internship paper that I wrote for my built environment and material culture in postsocialism course, and I've been working on my archaeology exams.
I did my grading the old-fashioned way, with pencil and paper, on a clipboard, overlooking the lake. It's been incredibly sunny and beautiful in Michigan recently after an unbearable and seemingly unending winter. So it's really something, sitting there, sunning my legs, reading undergraduate papers.
Having finished both the grading and the first version of the research internship paper, which I need to LET GO OF for the moment, even though it needs a ton of work, because it's 46 pages (!!), I have to move on to my archaeology papers. I hope to finally be caught up with my coursework and all, and finished with my research internship, by the end of the spring term in June, and on to my social work prelim. I'm actually really looking forward to the summer. I feel I've already set the pace of it with my quiet mornings spent reading and writing overlooking the lake with a mug of cafe con leche, and afternoons at the library. I wonder -- could I cancel my cell phone and my internet for a few months, and hide away in glorious, hermetic, spartan calm?
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Chain of Lakes tour
A light-hearted video tour of my beloved chain of lakes . . . Never mind the sort of annoying framing; enjoy the scenery. :)
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
weekend fun
Waking hungover but happy at noon on Sunday after much fun and revelry this weekend (tally since Friday: four house parties, two visits to Cafe Habana, two sightings of K&J, two sightings of Alice, two coffee dates at Amer's with colleagues, one slightly-drunken stroll through the Pinckney Kroger wearing fishnets and a cleavage-bearing black chiffon dress with freakishly long sleeves, one 3am dining adventure at the Fleetwood, one quiet walk in a Metropark, one baking event.)
A lovely lazy Saturday spent soaking up as much vitamin D as possible (oh, blessed sun!) , doing a little GSI work, and acquiring green vegetables (broccoli and spinach, yum!) and gas and strolling through the aisles of clothes, wine and liquor, and fancy, sexy computers at COSTCO. . .
. . . led into an evening of baking adventures and a couple nice house parties. A quiet, intimate group including some wonderful friends, with an outstanding spread of food, and woeful soulful music at Jenay's place . . . a stop-off at Cafe Habana to pick up Alice and some of her law school friends, and then over to Jonathan and Dan's place for one of their characteristically wild parties, peopled with drunken, maudlin boys, snarky and hilarious architects and artists, and lots of GEO folks, with astonishingly good fresh salsa verde thanks to their Mexican roommate. Alice took me out to the Fleetwood afterwards, then we parted ways at about 4 am.
I'm tired and my head hurts, but I feel cleansed from the experience of being with good friends. It had been a long week, with the GEO picketing and all. I never knew what hard work it would be to be out there.
Time now to wander around the house for the afternoon in my super-soft pink bathrobe and slippers and drink lots and lots of coffee. And maybe eat even more bacon. Mmm.
A lovely lazy Saturday spent soaking up as much vitamin D as possible (oh, blessed sun!) , doing a little GSI work, and acquiring green vegetables (broccoli and spinach, yum!) and gas and strolling through the aisles of clothes, wine and liquor, and fancy, sexy computers at COSTCO. . .
. . . led into an evening of baking adventures and a couple nice house parties. A quiet, intimate group including some wonderful friends, with an outstanding spread of food, and woeful soulful music at Jenay's place . . . a stop-off at Cafe Habana to pick up Alice and some of her law school friends, and then over to Jonathan and Dan's place for one of their characteristically wild parties, peopled with drunken, maudlin boys, snarky and hilarious architects and artists, and lots of GEO folks, with astonishingly good fresh salsa verde thanks to their Mexican roommate. Alice took me out to the Fleetwood afterwards, then we parted ways at about 4 am.
I'm tired and my head hurts, but I feel cleansed from the experience of being with good friends. It had been a long week, with the GEO picketing and all. I never knew what hard work it would be to be out there.
Time now to wander around the house for the afternoon in my super-soft pink bathrobe and slippers and drink lots and lots of coffee. And maybe eat even more bacon. Mmm.
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