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Life Update

One of my really good friends started a blog today and it made me realize….hey, I too, have a blog that I haven\’t really been keeping up with a whole lot…maybe I should get on that. I haven\’t been completely missing, but I haven\’t really written a whole lot in the last year. That being …

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Productivity

I am in the long and arduous process of writing a master\’s thesis and the experience has taught me not only about the process of conducting a full qualitative sociological research project, but has also taught me about my own process of productive, or lack thereof. My thesis requires hours and hours of work sitting …

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Earthquakes Don\’t Kill People. Buildings Kill People.

Ah, it\’s good to be back in Austin after spring break….with the exception that now that I\’m here I have to actually do schoolwork.  Such is life.  Spring Break was bad the first half, cause I got really sick the Thursday before and didn\’t get better until around Tuesday.  The rest was pretty uneventful.  Mainly …

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Living In The Castilian Is Sometimes Comparable To Living In A Third World Country

I\’m talking, of course, about the wonderful 2 days of no electricity or running water.  Yes that\’s right.  Starting on Monday at about 4 am, till about 5 pm on Tuesday night….there was no running water meaning, no toilets, no sinks, no showers, and no electricity….meaning no computer, no alarm clock, no light.  You get …

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