new computer
It's a pretty Presario - silver with white keys. Because when speaking of computing, it's style over substance (because I don't understand any of the substance).
Already first problem - couldn't get onto internet. It was the Norton - it blocked everything.
I'm just so damned thrilled to be typing on a keyboard with an "A" key that works properly.
I think my roommate and her boyfriend have been abducted by aliens - what else would explain the packages of ground turkey and frozen vegetables left behind on the counter?
To apply or not to apply, that is the question. The same institute that gave me my life-changing internship fellowship a year and a half ago is offering dissertation fellowships and I haven't missed the deadline yet. It's a major hassle to apply - getting everything together, especially letters of recommendation. But, the real problem is - they don't allow me to work much during that time, and the fellowship is only for $16,000. So, maybe if it were just me I could live on that. But a family of four? Um, no. And why apply for that when I know I can teach next year and make significantly more and still probably be able to get my dissertation done?
On the one hand, it looks good on CV's to get fellowships. On the other, it's a pain in the ass and I already have enough to do. For $16,000 I could probably live in Africa all year and do research for an entire year ... but that would put my life off a year, and it would push my limits. To spend 9 months always sweaty, with never a flush toilet or dependable electricity - I think I can pass on doing that AND going into debt. Hm. It might be good to do the application just to get all my thoughts in order. Or not.
I better go read now. Alan Peshkin's God's Choice - an ethnographic study of fundamentalist Christian school done by a Jew. So far, quite good - much better than the early ethnographies he did in West Africa.
I got almost nothing done today because of computer purchasing and fixing, but I shouldn't get too freaked out about that. Also had a very nice lunch with Jenny, Michele, and Shirley. And even got a to-go order of Templo rice and beans to fuel me through a productive tomorrow.
Already first problem - couldn't get onto internet. It was the Norton - it blocked everything.
I'm just so damned thrilled to be typing on a keyboard with an "A" key that works properly.
I think my roommate and her boyfriend have been abducted by aliens - what else would explain the packages of ground turkey and frozen vegetables left behind on the counter?
To apply or not to apply, that is the question. The same institute that gave me my life-changing internship fellowship a year and a half ago is offering dissertation fellowships and I haven't missed the deadline yet. It's a major hassle to apply - getting everything together, especially letters of recommendation. But, the real problem is - they don't allow me to work much during that time, and the fellowship is only for $16,000. So, maybe if it were just me I could live on that. But a family of four? Um, no. And why apply for that when I know I can teach next year and make significantly more and still probably be able to get my dissertation done?
On the one hand, it looks good on CV's to get fellowships. On the other, it's a pain in the ass and I already have enough to do. For $16,000 I could probably live in Africa all year and do research for an entire year ... but that would put my life off a year, and it would push my limits. To spend 9 months always sweaty, with never a flush toilet or dependable electricity - I think I can pass on doing that AND going into debt. Hm. It might be good to do the application just to get all my thoughts in order. Or not.
I better go read now. Alan Peshkin's God's Choice - an ethnographic study of fundamentalist Christian school done by a Jew. So far, quite good - much better than the early ethnographies he did in West Africa.
I got almost nothing done today because of computer purchasing and fixing, but I shouldn't get too freaked out about that. Also had a very nice lunch with Jenny, Michele, and Shirley. And even got a to-go order of Templo rice and beans to fuel me through a productive tomorrow.
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