update
I am still alive, although still sick. I didn't go to work yesterday morning
in order that I might have the energy to make it through class in the
afternoon. I almost didn't make it, as my geography "lab" was on "How to
Improve Your Writing." Gag me with a rusty spoon. Or with my own tonsils, as
the current case may be.
Anyway, I got to work today with the intention of leaving at lunchtime
(because this thing has a tendency to get worse during the course of the
day). But the Wayner is sick as well, with something similar to what I have,
and Sheri's daughter has a bad cold and has to go to the doctor's this
afternoon, so Wayner decided we could all leave when we wanted to (which for
us means around noon-ish). And Susanne (Wayner's wife and bookkeeper) did our
paycheques on Wednesday, so she had marked in my hours for Thursday (which I
didn't work), AND a full day for today (which I'm not working). So I got paid
for a helluva lot more hours that I didn't work. This is amazing. Tantamount
to hell freezing over.
So that's my story. Sheri's leaving shortly, and then I'll leave when I'm
done what I have to do here. I'll go home and do some more homework (I got a
lot accomplished yesterday, readings-wise, and there's no way I can play
hockey tonight), and hopefully I'll have it all
mostly done before tomorrow, so I can have a free weekend.
That's the plan, anyway.
update 21 january 2005, 5:35 pm
So, I've been emailing the faculty of all the universities I've applied to,
looking for potential supervisors for my MA project. I've had tentatively
positive responses so far. The faculty at UBC, UAB, and Carleton have all
been enthusiastic, and if they can't supervise me themselves, they're anxious
to sort something out.
Except the University of Calgary. If you go to their website, you'll see that
their Anthro Department has a grand total of TEN faculty. WTF? Slogging
through those was a painful process, as most of them are primatologists, and
NONE of them have any interest in my project. One of them even sent me a
nasty email telling me that I was too stupid to realize she was a
primatologist, berating me for emailing a prof who had retired recently, and outlining the exact way to look up faculty members on the
website. I don't know how she figured I'd accessed her name in the first
place, but whatever. If they updated their website once in a while, life
would be easier.
Anyway, the application is due 1 February, and you're SUPPOSED to have talked
to SOMEONE who's at least MODERATELY interested by then. I was getting
desperate. Then I thought, hang on, what about the Department of Sociology?
At CU, the two departments are combined, and everything is really
interdisciplinary, thanks to Charles. At UC, they are separate. So I figure,
what the hell? Carleton does interdisciplinary supervisions all the time. I
give it a try. I've emailed about five professors there, and while I was
looking at the last one, I nearly exploded in my chair. His current project?
A study of violence in CANADIAN ICE HOCKEY.
So, yeah. Cross your fingers.
Posted by Ally at January 21, 2005 09:40 PM