Writing, finally. And it feels pretty good.

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Further proof that Making Light is one of the more awesome places on the internets.

I'm still working for the census bureau, and deeply grateful that I'm no longer a substitute teacher. Our focus for the past month and a half has been on analyzing a series of areas that have been identified as hard-to-count, and formulating plans for how we'll address them during next year's enumeration. That's meant a welcome bit of analytical ( Read more... )

Interesting conundrum in environmental theology, in hideously glossed-over form ( Read more... )

Finally got my desktop up and sort-of running, and I'm amazed how much I've missed it. Laptops are great for browsing the web, but it's nice to have files going back a few years. Or seven. Or ten ( Read more... )

Pioneer Day week is over. That means the end of spending four of the past six days working at community festivals, trying to let people know about the census. (Result: most people either don't care or just want the free stuff, a few want jobs, and a few crazy folk think the census is coming to take their guns ( Read more... )

The Anonymous 4 have 2 CDs of American hymns and folk songs. Who knew?

So it's been a year (to the week) since I last posted to this journal, and probably a year and a half since I've posted anything of substance. But it still exists, and so do I. And fortunately, so do the friends who've been a bit better about keeping their journals (or blogs, or facebooks, or twitters...) up to date. So it's high time I did a ( Read more... )

Whee. I got comments on my first thesis draft back two weeks ago, and have been tooling away semi-diligently ever since. After rewriting my introduction (which my second committee member "disliked, intensely") and making a mess of graphics, I have only a few paragraphs worth of tweaking to do. And another map which I should really make. And a ( Read more... )