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Shit
So today was my first day of bar-hopping, by which I mean that I went to one bar and the guy told me to come back on Friday to talk to the other bartender (???), and then I went to a neighborhood tavern that I was told about by my pre-contacted interviewee, who is a folklorist and therefore knows a ton about NOLA. He also told me the story of being ( Read more... ) -
Fieldverk
Life on the field is hard, man. Today I got here, and today I conducted my first interview. At the end of the interview, since my interviewee really wanted to know what it was exactly that I was after (and he quite insisted on knowing), I sorta explained that I was attempting to track language change with respect to katrina... and he told me I was ( Read more... ) -
boo
My first chapter is like the embodiment of hell on earth compressed into one 6,000something word document. :( :( :( -
Last semester classes
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To the Dishwasher (a love poem)
My cleanest dear, whose song thunders in the night ( Read more... ) -
Anthropology of Violence
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Microsoft Word is kind of like Harvard in its attitude toward Peirce (diagrammatic relationship?)
Spell check makes the following suggestions to correct semiotic terminology:
semiotic ally
interpret ant
decent
represent amen
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in which I'm a really funny brand of idiot
For my 21st birth-day, one of my buddies gave me a stainless steel flask meant for liquor that says, "alternative fuel" on the front ( Read more... ) -
Bilingual Babies
I would write a more involved post, but I'm not much up for that right now, so I'll just leave it at this ( Read more... )