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Apr. 14th, 2014 05:29 pmThis weather is unbelievable. I just biked home through snow that stung my face and continually flurried into my eyes, making me blink and tear up. I almost had to stop a few times. This is the middle of April; it can stop any time.
How cheap am I? For stuff I need to print for school, but not give to a professor, I print two pages per page, double-sided. Seventy-five percent reduction in paper usage!
I'm halfway through writing my Chiapas paper, so it's coming. But I'm also like, a fifth of the way through the anthro theory paper, a third of the way through the history paper, eighty percent done with the directed reading questions for archaeology, and have not even started on my GIS project. I've got about three or four weeks for this stuff, so I'm working hard on working and not freaking out.
I'm going to see my advisor during office hours tomorrow to get the hold lifted for class registration for the Fall semester, so I had to print out the automated degree audit paperwork. I'm really close to graduating. If I'd realized I wanted this GIS cert earlier, I could have been done in one more semester. Instead, it'll take all of next year I think. It's a little frustrating, but maybe there'll be neat classes to take.
I did a quick and dirty Powerpoint for a presentation on my history project in class on Wednesday. The title slide reads "The Mysterious Disappearance of Pike Creek". It's just a series of Kenosha maps showing the changing shape and disappearance of the River. It ends with an overlay of the 1857 map on top of a Google Earth image. I'll go through those, and just talk a bit about what I've found so far and my outline for the paper. Though I'm an anthro major, this Pike Creek research has turned out to be the most interesting part of the semester for me. Maybe that shouldn't be surprising, given that, to deeply condense it, change in urban spaces was my primary reason for coming back to school.
I spent a wonderful weekend with Danae, no less so for the fact that we spent a great deal of time side by side working on our respective tasks. We played a couple of Empire Builder style games, which I found I could read during while not taking my turn. We got Chinese food together. We kissed and snuggled and talked. We're really good together.
Back to work!
How cheap am I? For stuff I need to print for school, but not give to a professor, I print two pages per page, double-sided. Seventy-five percent reduction in paper usage!
I'm halfway through writing my Chiapas paper, so it's coming. But I'm also like, a fifth of the way through the anthro theory paper, a third of the way through the history paper, eighty percent done with the directed reading questions for archaeology, and have not even started on my GIS project. I've got about three or four weeks for this stuff, so I'm working hard on working and not freaking out.
I'm going to see my advisor during office hours tomorrow to get the hold lifted for class registration for the Fall semester, so I had to print out the automated degree audit paperwork. I'm really close to graduating. If I'd realized I wanted this GIS cert earlier, I could have been done in one more semester. Instead, it'll take all of next year I think. It's a little frustrating, but maybe there'll be neat classes to take.
I did a quick and dirty Powerpoint for a presentation on my history project in class on Wednesday. The title slide reads "The Mysterious Disappearance of Pike Creek". It's just a series of Kenosha maps showing the changing shape and disappearance of the River. It ends with an overlay of the 1857 map on top of a Google Earth image. I'll go through those, and just talk a bit about what I've found so far and my outline for the paper. Though I'm an anthro major, this Pike Creek research has turned out to be the most interesting part of the semester for me. Maybe that shouldn't be surprising, given that, to deeply condense it, change in urban spaces was my primary reason for coming back to school.
I spent a wonderful weekend with Danae, no less so for the fact that we spent a great deal of time side by side working on our respective tasks. We played a couple of Empire Builder style games, which I found I could read during while not taking my turn. We got Chinese food together. We kissed and snuggled and talked. We're really good together.
Back to work!
