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Dec. 5th, 2013 12:17 amAnd with that interview (sloppily) typed up, summarized, and turned in, I'm done with everything I need to do except for the upcoming final exams. Yay!
I have two take home finals: Environmental Anthropology and African-American History. I prefer take-homes. They need to be longer more in depth, but the opportunity to collect my thoughts, avoid forgetting important things, and make sure I'm doing a thorough job makes them a less anxiety-producing experience than writing something more extemporaneously and with a time-limit.
My finals for Map Use and Analysis and Intro to Geography are in-class. I'm not very worried about the latter. The former, I need to do some reading and refreshing on. I'll be doing that over the weekend, as well as, hopefully, writing my finals. Assuming they're posted online by then.
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I'm sending my pogies back to Alaska. They're wonderfully made and obviously high quality goods. But they're not working for me. I'm not sure what the problem is. Having been told that, in twenty years, no one has contacted the maker with this question/issue makes me feel a little dumb. I was hoping she might be able to ask people local to her about how they use them but she didn't seem inclined to do that. Which is fine; that's going out of her way.
Instead, I'm going to get some insulated gloves. I'm hoping these might do the trick. They're rated to -25 F, and are water and wind proof. Plus they're $90 less expensive than the pogies were! The heavy-duty construction should help them stand up to the wear of moving around on handlebars and using grip-shifters too. I'm still wondering whether mittens would be a better choice, and haven't firmly settled on these yet. I'll have to decide soon; cold is coming! Not that I'll have time to get something in the mail before the temperature here plummets to 15 degrees F / -9.5 C (without windchill) on Friday.
I may end up buying a balaclava as well. It depends on how well my current solution (an insulated old-style knitted ski mask with mouth and eye holes) holds up in really frigid temperatures.
I have two take home finals: Environmental Anthropology and African-American History. I prefer take-homes. They need to be longer more in depth, but the opportunity to collect my thoughts, avoid forgetting important things, and make sure I'm doing a thorough job makes them a less anxiety-producing experience than writing something more extemporaneously and with a time-limit.
My finals for Map Use and Analysis and Intro to Geography are in-class. I'm not very worried about the latter. The former, I need to do some reading and refreshing on. I'll be doing that over the weekend, as well as, hopefully, writing my finals. Assuming they're posted online by then.
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I'm sending my pogies back to Alaska. They're wonderfully made and obviously high quality goods. But they're not working for me. I'm not sure what the problem is. Having been told that, in twenty years, no one has contacted the maker with this question/issue makes me feel a little dumb. I was hoping she might be able to ask people local to her about how they use them but she didn't seem inclined to do that. Which is fine; that's going out of her way.
Instead, I'm going to get some insulated gloves. I'm hoping these might do the trick. They're rated to -25 F, and are water and wind proof. Plus they're $90 less expensive than the pogies were! The heavy-duty construction should help them stand up to the wear of moving around on handlebars and using grip-shifters too. I'm still wondering whether mittens would be a better choice, and haven't firmly settled on these yet. I'll have to decide soon; cold is coming! Not that I'll have time to get something in the mail before the temperature here plummets to 15 degrees F / -9.5 C (without windchill) on Friday.
I may end up buying a balaclava as well. It depends on how well my current solution (an insulated old-style knitted ski mask with mouth and eye holes) holds up in really frigid temperatures.
