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My advisor created a proposal for a program called Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP). We heard back with an approval for it today! We'll be examining the covering over of Pike Creek here in Kenosha. It's a stream that winds through Kenosha and down to the harbor. The portion from Washington Park to the harbor itself was covered and built over somewhere around 1960. I'm interested in that occurrence from the perspective of human relationships to the built environment, while my advisor is coming from a more environmentally focused perspective. I think we'll be able to work in pretty complementary fashion! I'm hoping to incorporate archival research and oral history interviews among other methodology.
It's pretty exciting to be a part of another research project, and this time to have a hand in shaping the direction and goals.
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With the start of the new semester, I'm back to Biking for Belldandy! See, as motivation to bike to school, I buy myself a volume of manga for each five days that I commute by bicycle. There are tons of them used on Amazon for a penny plus $3.99 shipping. It's less than I save in gas money (let alone maintenance costs) by not driving, and it's an excuse to buy little things for myself that I've wanted for years and never gotten around to.
At present, I'm building a collection of all of the published volumes of Oh My Goddess. I had a sporadic few of them already, but I now have the complete run through volume 16. As the lead character is the goddess Belldandy (who I had a major crush on when I was younger, and who I still find really appealing despite some gender-related issues that the modern me has with the series' concept [and I have to admit I have rather more appreciation for Urd than when I first encountered the series]), I've been calling my bike commuting program "Biking for Belldandy."
I may have to come up with a another name once I have all of Oh My Goddess. If the next series I work to complete a collection of is Inubaka, maybe I could call it "Exercising for Suguri."
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A friend just posted a picture of food on his wall and now I want poutine. *sighs* I really really like poutine.
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My history class does not skimp on the reading materials. Hundred-plus page portions of two books by the end of the month. I'm going to do some reading of Gilfoyle (the history of commercialization of sex in New York City) this weekend. I looked up the professor online today and found that he was in the same year of the same history program as the adjunct who taught my survey level US History courses in my first year back at school, and they had the same advisor (the aforementioned Gilfoyle). That's nifty! I'm going to ask him if he's in touch with her and will say hi for me. Her classes were really what made me decide to make history a big portion of my studies at Parkside.
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With class starting at 11:00 today, I had time to leave early and go grocery shopping on my way to school. With temperatures being what they have been, I could also leave the food in my bike panniers and not have to worry about it staying frozen. On top of my school stuff, I fit three pizzas, four boxes of Lean Pockets, and a box of protein bars (I'm a bachelor with a difficult to use kitchen; don't judge) in my cargo space. Best of all, I don't have to make a car trip for groceries this week. Yay!
It's pretty exciting to be a part of another research project, and this time to have a hand in shaping the direction and goals.
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With the start of the new semester, I'm back to Biking for Belldandy! See, as motivation to bike to school, I buy myself a volume of manga for each five days that I commute by bicycle. There are tons of them used on Amazon for a penny plus $3.99 shipping. It's less than I save in gas money (let alone maintenance costs) by not driving, and it's an excuse to buy little things for myself that I've wanted for years and never gotten around to.
At present, I'm building a collection of all of the published volumes of Oh My Goddess. I had a sporadic few of them already, but I now have the complete run through volume 16. As the lead character is the goddess Belldandy (who I had a major crush on when I was younger, and who I still find really appealing despite some gender-related issues that the modern me has with the series' concept [and I have to admit I have rather more appreciation for Urd than when I first encountered the series]), I've been calling my bike commuting program "Biking for Belldandy."
I may have to come up with a another name once I have all of Oh My Goddess. If the next series I work to complete a collection of is Inubaka, maybe I could call it "Exercising for Suguri."
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A friend just posted a picture of food on his wall and now I want poutine. *sighs* I really really like poutine.
---
My history class does not skimp on the reading materials. Hundred-plus page portions of two books by the end of the month. I'm going to do some reading of Gilfoyle (the history of commercialization of sex in New York City) this weekend. I looked up the professor online today and found that he was in the same year of the same history program as the adjunct who taught my survey level US History courses in my first year back at school, and they had the same advisor (the aforementioned Gilfoyle). That's nifty! I'm going to ask him if he's in touch with her and will say hi for me. Her classes were really what made me decide to make history a big portion of my studies at Parkside.
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With class starting at 11:00 today, I had time to leave early and go grocery shopping on my way to school. With temperatures being what they have been, I could also leave the food in my bike panniers and not have to worry about it staying frozen. On top of my school stuff, I fit three pizzas, four boxes of Lean Pockets, and a box of protein bars (I'm a bachelor with a difficult to use kitchen; don't judge) in my cargo space. Best of all, I don't have to make a car trip for groceries this week. Yay!
