After my meeting with my adviser Friday, we decided to have a mock dissertation defense in may. YIKES. That means a finished manuscript at least a month before that so everyone will have time to read it before they grill me (this is a *much* better place to be grilled than the real defense!) May! [...]

Does anyone know where I can find some stats on YouTube users. It does not seem that there are any, and I have even seen other bloggers lamenting this…but maybe I am just not googling hard enough!

Today I meet with my adviser to see where I am, where I need to go, and how much time I have left! I was pretty nervous, but after preparing for the meeting, I realized that I am farther along than I thought. I have a somewhat ambitious thesis planned (with 6 articles rather than [...]

I am in the process of switching some things around. My domain stays the same, but there may be a blip in the blog for a few hours or so.

Today we went to the first day of first grade!

I LOVE first days of school. I was the kid that bought my school supplies a month in advance and still love the smell of freshly sharpened pencils (mechanical pencils never really did the same thing for me). I hope to pass that same love of [...]

According to the old adage, it takes a village to raise a child…but what does it take to raise a village? Despite the bad pun (insert boos and hisses here), this has been a reoccurring question in my research from the beginning – and my definition of weblog community has changed many, many times over [...]

I should write more in cafés. It is such a nice environment :-)