MeghanIsMe

I have next-to-no time on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I have to be in class at 9:30 and my yoga and pilates class goes to 8 o' clock, and I haven't been able to do laundry since getting back home, but I have enough clothes for one more day.

Things are shaping up for my semester, work and project-wise.

I just got an acceptance from the Central States Anthropological Society for a poster submission. That means I have three presentations in April; one in Minneapolis, MN; one in Madison, WI; and one in Chicago, IL. That's going to be a busy month! These are all poster sessions and will focus on various parts of my work on Pike Creek. Which I need to get back to doing. I have hydrologic GIS data to hunt down, and more oral interviewing to plan out with my advisor.

My semester project for my GIS class will likely be geo-referencing of a set of ward maps, aerial photos, and perhaps some Sanborn fire insurance maps, of Kenosha. That will all contribute toward my poster presentation for AAG at the same time. Plus, because it will be digitizing material held by the Parkside archives, I can work on it during work hours there and get paid. Yay!

My history class will require reading two books on a particular historical topic and writing a formal analysis and comparison. I think my topic is going to be urban renewal in major cities in the '60s and '70s. This is convenient because I'm in an urban planning class wherein I need to do a book report, so I'm going to use one monograph for both of those. It will likely be Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" which I started reading today. It's been on my list for a while anyway. Not sure about the second one yet. Can anyone suggest any good historical monographs on urban renewal? I may have to do a little lit review.

I ate some really hot (temperature-wise) food on the way home from Oklahoma. It was hours after my dental work, but I may have still had some residual numbness, 'cause I burned the roof of my mouth quite badly. My mother checked with a flashlight and thinks that it blistered. I can't eat solid food yet, and am slightly worried. The internet does note that it can take up to a week for this kind of thing to heal, but I may ask the campus clinic to look at it tomorrow.