Today I traded the purple iPod Nano my brother bought me for my birthday and got a 32 gb iPod Touch.  It was not an easy decision, as my older brother thought I should wait til the fall when the fourth generation will be out, and my twin bro offered me the option of buying a used Touch for half the price (from some guy he doesn't really know).  But ( Read more... )

So today was humorously disastrous ( Read more... )

I'm back in Norman for the Breath of Life Workshop!  It's a week-long workshop for language groups that don't have any fluent native speakers, and thus are going to have to rely heavily on linguistic documentation materials and archives in order to revitalize/reclaim their language.  I'm a mentor, we're here to help the participants decipher the ( Read more... )

So my apartment is kicking me out on the 14th, which is the last day of finals here.  I have no idea who the hell thought that was a good idea, but they're being pretty dang strict on it.  I didn't sign up in time to get a slot on Thursday or Friday, and there's no way in hell I could get out of here by the 12th (a week from now), so I had to ( Read more... )

“Supposed you and I are walking on the road,” said Swamiji, the holy man whose storytelling I was researching in 1985.  “You’ve gone to University.  I haven’t studied anything.  We’re walking.  Some child has shit on the road.  We both step in it. ‘That’s shit!’ I say.  I scrape my foot; it’s gone.  But educated people have doubts about everything. ( Read more... )

I GOT OFFERED AN ASSISTANTSHIP ( Read more... )

I met with a professor on Thursday about certification.

He was very...confusing.  I spoke with him for almost two hours, and I still walked out confused about it all.  But it seems I have three options:

1. Alternative Certification: take a few courses and then take exams and stuff at the state department.

AltCert is not really what I want, as from ( Read more... )

Am feeling better about my financial situation since the last post.  I spoke to Dr. O on Monday and he seemed surprised when I said I wasn't getting an assistantship (which surprised me...he was there) and he said he'd try to find some more money for his project to keep me around, but he wasn't making any promises.  So...not great, but hopeful, at ( Read more... )

Met with my possible thesis chair today, Dr. L (as she had to sign a form saying she is currently my thesis chair, though this could change).  She wants me to present the final paper I wrote in her class at an upcoming conference (yay feeling accomplished!!).  Abstracts are due in a week and a half, so I need to get working on that.  This is ( Read more... )

Today has been spent stressing about money stuffs.

Soo my assistantship pays my tuition (with a limit of 9 hours I think) and then I have to pay student fees.

Last semester I think I owed about $2,000 or $2500 in student fees. Not great, but I could handle it (I put it on my credit card and have paid over half of it off).

I checked yesterday and it ( Read more... )