Where are we now?


View Where are we now? in a larger map Jo, Annie, Miles and I are living in Northport, Alabama and working at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. We've been glad to be in one place for a bit after what appeared to be semi-permanently traveling (in actuality for a period of 2.5 years).We started this blog to catalogue some of the adventures when Jo and I were sequentially conducting our dissertation research in India and Brazil. While we've fallen off the blogging bandwagon somewhat during recent trips to Brazil, we're trying to pick it up again now that we're back in India!


Thursday, August 23, 2007

First week reflections.....

Well, I've completed the first class of my last class, which means I've now had a taste of all the classes I will be taking this semester. Thoughts: the drive to Athens really isn't so bad, it's a good chance to listen to some music, unwind, and be forced not to do school work or play on the computer (I tried but couldn't master the stick/mousepad interface). Oh yeah-reflections, perspectives, brilliant answers to life's greatest questions....not quite there yet. My one impression, and i'm sure this will change by the end of the week, is that i''m not being challenged to the degree that i expected. I'm sure this will change, and i will rue the day i made such a blasphemous statement, but reading is one thing, but really being challenged theoretically to think in different ways is another. I'm sure my cerebrum will be screaming out in existential angst soon enough.

On another note: It's so nice to have Jo home- if only because i was getting tired of cooking for myself. Just kidding. Sort of. Not really. Ok, i was, because i made a darn good eggplant and chickpea pasta dish from our 'Vegetable' wedding cookbook.

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