I've put my face on today, and put actual clothes on, instead of pajamas.
um.
progress on the essays are pretty meh if you were wondering; I spent bus rides and spare time reading readings that were allocated to that week, but had no relevance to my essay at all. So I got lazy and gave up. That is what I do~
They are due in 2 weeks, though, so I'm feeling the deadline loom. This saturday I have another hair modeling thing which I hope won't go too badly; it's at a different place this time and they're actually cutting my hair for free; when I signed up I thought that it would be a neat thing to schedule my schoolwork around. So that's the preliminary deadline for me; to see how much I can get done by saturday.
the thing that's getting in the way of me actually getting anything done is that I don't know where to start or which readings to read. I should just reread the abu-lughod and narayan articles, and see what they cite, or search things that are similar to what they say? Because I need papers that support or disagree with their ideas of a native anthropologist in order to write my own essay.
and then there's the silly anthPractice one which I don't know where to start either. I think I can cobble together a lit review, but for the methods and findings part I'm a bit screwed. For anthlondon I have to redo the interview we're supposed to do because the photographer I first interviewed didn't want to have his photo taken -_-' Now I need to interview someone else. Then I have to write an essay about Economies, Corners, Power or Flows, and these things are so abstract and weird I never know if I'm writing about the correct thing. Although it's not like the lecturer hasn't talked about Economies or Power, so I could use some stuff from the lectures. And look up people he's talked about. Not sure about Corners or Flows, so probably not going to do those questions. I can do this.
so tomorrow when I go out, I have to remember to bring a camera with me to take pictures of things relating to Economies or Power. The scrapbooks he showed us which had distinction seem to be filled with artsy pictures of no specific theme, so I'll go with that. Or revisit the places we went to and take pictures of those places.
heh. writing about these things just makes it a little more manageable.
it's 1am, and I'm actually tired enough to go to sleep, so that's good. A few weeks back I had trouble sleeping and getting up at a decent hour because I kept sleeping at like 4am. Today I um. folded my clothes. Did that. And learnt the dance of the remaining bit of "Stutter". Now I know the whole dance! Enough to attempt to film a tutorial. That is how I procrastinate. Also I had Jim and the Povolo's "Holiday Club" on repeat. Been on a bit of a starkid run these past few days.
I always advise people who are looking for papers to go look on Google Scholar, you never know what you might find ;)
ReplyDeleteAnd if there's a paper that's not directly accessible, you can just use a google search with the name of the paper between quotes and add this:
filetype:pdf
Or if that doesn't work, try accessing it from your school's network, they usually have subscriptions on these things.
yeah! google scholar is great. I didn't know the other search tip, though. Should be helpful, thanks!
Deleteand yeah I find that I usually get easier access through my school's network. xD the librarian keeps telling us to do that.