Is it Friday yet?
One more paper, and then relax…Wait, then shopping, work, cleaning (which has been neglected because of said papers, etc.), job search, resume writing, traveling to KC, talking to parents about weddings, etc. Hopefully there will be a schvitz or such in there, too.
Grr.
I sat next to a guy with a birdcage today in the subway. He told me he had 8 birds and wanted 8 more. Nice. Then he started to whistle along with his headphones. Not nice.
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Yawn. Last night was EJ’s birthday! I got him a card and didn’t have time to make it out. Oops. The menu (this was the result of slightly joking conversation made while probably very tired going to Iceland…): Hash brown casserole, green bean casserole (but made fresh), and green rice casserole (a rain check was written for carrot cake). Fascinating. Everything I bought at the grocery store for this meal was white, yellow, or orange: sour cream, cream cheese, yogurt, hash browns, sugar, powdered sugar, white rice, cheddar cheese, cream of chicken soup, chicken broth, evaporated milk, cream…Wow. My arteries freaked out.
Tonight (taking last out of the category) begins the days of good eating: today, dinner at Gordon Ramasy’s (the middle dining room), tomorrow La Esquina, and Saturday perhaps brunch at Bubby’s and dinner at café Grey. Sunday I will not eat.
Filed under Food | Comment (0)This week.
So, week one from hell is over – whew! Although, looking back I don’t feel my papers were quite as good…but it’s the learning process that’s important, right?
Today is EJ’s birthday! My mother would always wake me up on my birthday with this little music box that sang happy birthday – sorry, EJ, I should have made some effort. I tried to get Dylan to sing happy birthday, but ran out of time – perhaps for next year.
Interesting class item: my professor for program evaluation is teaching us how to code surveys, etc., and, naturally, as part of our survey we had, along with age, gender, etc., the “ethnicity” box. He asked us – why have this box? Race is a weak theory at best, and put as many categories as you want on it, but if you analyze the data, it will really just come down to black and white, right? So why have it? Is it to support answers to questions we already think we have (ex: taking data on salaries, did we already make the conclusion that non-whites will make less?). We could probably “prove” that with the statistics, but you can prove everything with statistics – what if the salary information is more based on college/economic background/previous jobs? Anyway, the moral to the story is that, if you make up a survey or the next time you are answering a survey, consider the implications of having the ethnicity/race box, and consider eliminating it, not answering, or other tactic. Because by having it/assuming it’s important, are we just perpetuating assumptions to questions? Hmm.
I’m going to talk with by boss about what I want to be when I grow up. Any suggestions?
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And one of the last nights of the semester that will warrant these hours. That’s good, but it’s still 2:30 am. I’m working on a paper on expatriates and the services they need to be successful. I think I’d like to help out with that in a big, international company. Sounds like fun, perhaps I’ll look into it.
EJ and I got a Christmas tree yesterday, and it is very cute. It’s a real tree (which reminds me I need to water it!), which is like we had at home - although here we bought it from the guy on the corner and in KC we went to he tree farm and sawed it down ourselves.
It also snowed today, so perfect timing. The top two weirdest snow experiences ever: when an inch layer of ice was on top of 4 inches of snow - my sled wouldn’t go through the ice, so you could ride for ages with just a little hill or push. When it snowed really big flakes for a few hours when I was golfing in high school.
My opinion of the day: social work students are actually really busy.
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