Well, I had my birthday, it was a really good day. The following day wasn't as good... being nervous about my committee meeting wasn't cool, but it went ok.

Now I have to go buy a ticket to Mexico, and they're double the price than last week when I looked. GRRRRR!

But, I did have a nice sunday school today, we started talking about the mission trip with the senior high kids (and 8th grader this year) and it sounds really neat, and on top of that, a few of the kids requested that I do come on the trip with them. Yay!

We'll be doing work with Humane Borders, which sounds really neat. Providing water to Mexicans trying to cross the desert into the US. Etc...

Now today I'm going to do some studying, then go to Church again for a halloween party:)

working on the thesis proposal with the intent to email it to my professors in 2 hours... it's probably not going to be super complete, but I need to move on to something else for at least a day.

Laura was in town almost this whole week, so I got to see her yesterday after classes in the evening. We couldn't really decide what to do, but then she suggested bingo, so we said awesome! After dinner and a drink at the Trailhead we headed over to Bingo, and two hours later, on the last game of the night, the last call of the night, I won! And if it weren't for two other people having valid bingos, I would have won 500 dollars. As it was, I got 166:) Laura and I split the cash, and she went home. It was some of the most profitable and fun spontaneous time I'd ever had!

Back to the thesis...

yay me, I finished the philosophy midterm and held my own in discussion of them last night. I even made a comment without being called on! I guess silly to be happy about that, but my goal is to at the least have one a week... it's a tough class.

Now I get to work on my thesis again, finally. I think other school work will be placed on hold for the time being.

And it's Friday! Taizé tonight at the student center... I'm going with YUCCA (the Young UCC Adults) and with our Senior High Youth Group. Taizé brothers travel once a year to three places in the world, and this year they're in Fort Collins! So I couldn't resist the opportunity to experience Taizé with them!
http://www.taize.fr/en
Have a good weekend!

Are you ready for this?

I'm quitting one of my jobs (the I-House one) and that makes me sad. However now I will have a bit more time to focus on school and my thesis, which, in about 3 weeks I should be having my first committee meeting to discuss the revised proposal and my research interview quetions, in 4 weeks I should have compiled my Human Subjects Review and will be turning that in and simultaneously figuring out if I can do research at a conference in Mexico early December. Early December I go to the conference, ideally collect all the data I need, and then start transcribing after finals are done. After that, writing the thesis hopefully to get it done and my defense done by early April. Luckily next semester all I enroll in is 6-7 Thesis credits (which is really just writing the thesis... no class involved here) and (of course) a Spanish class because I like to torture myself with doing more than I have to. It sounds sooo ridiculously simple, and even Stu, my advisor, said it's pretty simple from here on out... I have all my background research done, basically. But I can't believe that it is really that simple.
Chalk that up to the 4 classes THIS semseter on top of trying to get my thesis research started!
Chalk it up to the idea that I might not get all of my research done at this conference!
Chalk it up to the fact that the conference might be entirely in Spanish!

But, at least I have a timeline and a basic gameplan.

Now, instead of beginning this process, I have to go back and continue to study and write for my philosophy midterm due Thursday. Once I start it, I know it will flow, but I still have a bit of reading to go!

ps-I'm still incredibly happy at the speed of my computer! It works, and it works well, and it is a functional, happy computer now. No sad macs here (Sex in the City reference!)... to think I almost broke down and just bought a new tower, it would have been at least double what I spent to fix my problema. Happy Happy Happy!

YAY! I can finally post (though I don't have the time to!) becuase I finally got new memory for my computer, and now it actually runs (as opposed to running SOOOOOOO slowly). So, I'm rejoycing this morning in the beauty that is a computer that runs faster. Though I do have to go in and chat with my advisor about my thesis at 10:15... kida intimidating, but it should help get me on task.

Dinner with Xinhua and Angela this afternoon then studying and tea with Logan.