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I listened to the tail end of Radiolab's space episode on the way to school. Now, after thinking about Challenger, Colombia, and the necessary but still disappointing commercialization of space, I'm feeling kind of down. It doesn't help, I suppose, that I forgot to email myself the output from SPSS (the statistics package on the school computers) last night so I could print it out as part of my homework. I have it on my network drive here at school; just not in hard copy.

I really need to get this history research done; it's weighing on me pretty continuously.

On a different note, I've only just started listening to podcasts on my MP3 player in the last week. This is new to me. What would y'all recommend I listen to? Inquiring dogs want to know!

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Edited to add:

So the homework is not due until Thursday. It was late at night; I must have mixed dates up somehow. I feel a little better.

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How strange and wonderful, to read an in-depth profile of a Detroit autoworker in Fortune magazine in 1935, and to be able to look up his address (which was there in the piece) on Google Maps and find his house. I wonder who lives there now? I wonder if they'd be interested in learning about this man and his family and the many little bits of his life pieced together here.

So often, I look at houses and wonder what their story is. Who's lived there, what they were like, what that place meant to them. On this one rare instance, I got to satisfy a bit of that brand of curiosity. I didn't know this house myself, but I've been in the neighborhood.

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I'm getting carried away here, I think. I need 10 print sources and 10 microfilm source. But I have over a hundred articles from the NYT on my spreadsheet to go through. But I also don't know which ones are going to be worthwhile. But I *also* think I'm going a bit too far here. Possibly?
I'm going to get through making notes on articles regrading strikes, then start going through microfilm and winnowing wheat from chaff.

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I am discouraged and am going home. I may or may not get a few
Cadbury creme eggs on the way. Probably not, as I'm doing very well at managing food intake. But I'm definitely feeling the desire to eat brought on by major school anxiety.
I'll get this newspaper thing figured out tomorrow, I hope.