This morning the radio DJ comes on after a song and says "How are you doing Nicole on this feel good Friday ( Read more... )

For anyone who has worried about my lack of contact with the outside world, I realized this morning that I've actually managed to do something social every single weekend this month. First a concert followed by drinks, last weekend Noah's Ark Adventureland and then dinner and a bonfire at a friend's house, a lovely Sunday brunch at another friend's ( Read more... )

Is anyone else getting friend requests from journals that are all about 'how I got rich with google'? Once someone adds me as a friend is there anyway to get my name off of their list? Boo spam.

My new writing schedule was very successful last week, I felt like I was making decent progress and the ideas were plentiful. I've already lost my way a little by getting off track the past few days. My Saturday morning writing was interrupted by the infamous 'blue screen of death' that took over my laptop. I subsequently spent hours searching for ( Read more... )

As I make the switch from field work to analysis and the actual writing of my thesis, I've been reading books and articles about "how to write a thesis." There are some good pieces of advice in them and I'm going to to try and implement a new strategy this week and I'll post if it somehow actually works....

Here are my 'words of the day' from my ( Read more... )

I'm hesitant to use the word done because I still have to drop off the last of the transcripts at the high school tomorrow, and then I have to impatiently wait for all of my participants to approve them and if they want any changes made I have to add those in.... but for the most part, the absolutely horrendous stage that was transcribing is OVER! ( Read more... )

Today I.... woke up early, wrote letters and compiled transcript packages, got on the bus and headed to the high school to deliver said packages where I had to navigate through a crowd of 7 bus loads of small children in order to get to the front office, walked to the mall, put my name on the waiting list at H&R, walked around the mall and tried on ( Read more... )

Wishing me success with my transcription actually made it into the Easter prayer last night before dinner - so how could this week not be a fantastic work week ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my first day wearing running shoes and the day before my first day not wearing a winter coat. Despite the snow on the ground and not extremely warm temperatures, I’m declaring it Spring ( Read more... )

Here’s the depressing bit of math I realized tonight… Each of my student transcripts are approximately or close to 30 pages long. There are 10 student interviews. This equals 300 PAGES OF TRANSCRIPTS. Not to mention, another 40 pages or so for the two teacher interviews combined.

So far I have completed about 30% of my transcription, which equals ( Read more... )