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I was excited about the article that my group will be presenting on this Thursday for my LGBTQ class (West and Zimmerman, "Doing Gender"). But now that I'm reading it, it's mainly dry theory, and I feel like it's stuff we've really already covered. Oh well. Still gotta get through it and make enough notes to contribute with three other people to a 30 minute Powerpoint discussion.

I mean, it's a good article. But not really anything new to the class at this point.

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Ok. I don't need to make every little project into a term paper. I can just relax, put a reasonable amount of work into things, and not make mountains out of molehills.

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This is ironic. Really ironic.

I've been throwing out great numbers of hard copies of census data, as I've mentioned, because it's all available online now.

Well I'm trying really hard to figure out just how to access that data, and it's pretty inscrutable. Do any of you have experience with electronic resources regarding US Census data? I'd love a few words of advice.

I went through a tutorial for the American Community Survey. The first step in the data access portion is "Navigate to the ACS Data Sets page on American FactFinder." That's great; how do I get there? There's no info about where on the main page to look, and I clicked around and couldn't find it. It's like Arthur Dent looking for the notice that his house was being razed. Did they have a technical writer do the tutorial, or did they just ask all the DBAs for volunteers?