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Up and Coming

This next week is going to be nasty. I don't even want to go to bed so I don't have to begin to deal with it. Things I have to do: research about mascots and semiotics (which includes reading about 4 books, at least), write 10 page paper about mascots and semiotics, read about anthropology stuff and write notes on it, read a thick book on Asian American immigration, write up an anthropology project proposal, and read for sociolinguistics. Things I don't have to do this week but continue to hang heavy in my mind: come up with some sort of sociolinguistics project and begin researching it, do two popular culture sociolinguistic show and tells, set up interviews with Hispanic people (possibly finding an interpreter), do more mascot research, read the book I am facilitating the discussion for, come up with a thematic bibliography, write up a syllabus for an American Studies course, be clever, be fun, etc. etc. Yes, a big clump of things.

But there are some fun things coming up to in the next month or so. In about 11 days I leave for DC (but I don't think the level of funness for this trip will be very high because pressure to talk to people, be clever, and then stuck in a van for 12 hours with, um, interesting people). But then in less than a month I get to visit Mamers and Mike for Thanksgiving. Level of funness for that trip is expected to be high (which worries me because, you know, dashed expectations, but oh well). Also, birthday. That's gotta be fun, right?

Eh, we'll see.