anyone up late doin' papers?

[Runcible Spoon]

I've developed a plan for writing my thesis late-night:

1. Future Sound of London, BT, Orbital, Thievery Corporation. Good mellow rhythm, few lyrics to distract from cerebral enterprise.

2. Scanning books/articles/websites, building theory, incorporate data. Flesh out framework of paper.

3. Cigarette/DU break. Iced tea.

4. rinse and repeat.

Thesis thus far: Living, Dying, and Leisure in Late Modernity
-tourism, celebrant funerals, and home ownership. Performative/reflexive construction of social spaces and individual identity through experience and material assemblages. Experience/material assemblages commodified. Funeral directors, travel agents, and real estate agents mediate and negotiate experience, identity, social space, and material assemblages between the individual and the existing social institutions. Habitus ala Bourdieu.

Don't worry, it will all eventually make sense ;)

That is all.

[Radical Activist]

1. excuse me

If you're wasting time on DU then get on messenger, assclown.

[Runcible Spoon]

2. heh.

but you always suck me into a 2 hour discussion. hehehe I said suck. I'm all smart n shit.

[Radical Activist]

5. "discussion" huh?

Maybe your sick of arguing because I'm more stubborn than you are. haha!
It sounds like you're having a bonnaroo experience yourself tonight.

[Runcible Spoon]

6. heh. actually I'm pretty stone cold sober.

I just get all wierd and abstract when I'm in paper mode. Something to do with disengagement from everything except my scary mind and its victim du jour. In this case, French semioticians.

[Radical Activist]

10. I feel sorry for the french semioticians

having been a past victim of your mind. ;)

[Runcible Spoon]

13. aww baby you hurt so good.

I like debating you.

[Radical Activist]

14. hehe

Do you really? You got pretty pissed last time. :hurts:

[Runcible Spoon]

17. I wasn't pissed.

I was just tired and had mad shit to do. sorry. :hug:

[Huckebein the Raven]

3. I'm going to put on Groove Salad or Drone Zone

or Late Night Beats streams on SomaFm really soon.

http://www.somafm.com

perhaps a bowl of cherry vanilla ice cream and a few slices of pound cake

[Runcible Spoon]

4. I'll have to check that out.

damn, I can't afford cherry vanilla IC and pound cake. I spent the last of my cash on Puddin' Pops, which by the way are back on the market!

[Huckebein the Raven]

7. Drone Zone is perfect if you want something that won't

distract you. I get distracted sometimes and start singing if I choose something like rock or hip hop.

I didn't know Puddin' Pops went off the market ?

[Runcible Spoon]

9. dammit, those Cosby commercials were a formative part of my childhood!

I actually spent about 20 mins scouring the web trying to find a viddie of them. But yes, they are back and just as good at quenching dry mouth as ever! :evilgrin: :smoke:

[Huckebein the Raven]

11. I remember those commercials too

Those pops were good on the rare occasion we had them in the house. It was usually fruit flavored popsicles for us

[Swamp Rat]

21. Yes, Drone Zone is for writing in the abstract...

... and dreaming. :boring:

[Huckebein the Raven]

33. Did you listen to Beat Blender ?

[Swamp Rat]

35. No. I didn't see it in iTunes radio.

Where did you find it? Is it available through iTunes?

[Huckebein the Raven]

37. Can you use the stream at the site link on iTunes ?

here's the link:

http://www.somafm.com

[Swamp Rat]

40. Oh yeah! Thanks for reminding me about that website!

I'm jamming to Beat Blender right now in iTunes! :)

I'm going back to Drone Zone since I want to fall asleep soon.

[Huckebein the Raven]

41. No problem. That's what I use Drone Zone for too

:)

[Swamp Rat]

43. Do you know how I can find CDs of some of the playlists?

I like Harold Budd's stuff and a piece called "Waveform Transmission 1.3" by someone who's name escapes me at the moment... Peter Namlook?

[Huckebein the Raven]

45. Did you check out these links under the playlist section of the site ?

http://pork.co.uk/

http://www.sixdegreesrecords.com/

http://www.waveformhq.com/

[Swamp Rat]

48. Cool links!

Thanks! :)

[Huckebein the Raven]

49. Anytime

[phusion]

8. That's cool...

I should be finishing some papers, but procrastinating is taking priority right now... :)

You're going for a grad degree? Rhetorical theory? Sociology??? American studies?

Sounds interesting...

[Runcible Spoon]

12. finishing up my MA

in cultural anthropology and linguistics. I've done field work in Guatemala and loved it but I think it's time to turn our own theories in on ourselves so I'm focusing on late modern capitalist cultures. I'm sick of people thinking all anthropologists do is muck around the Amazon Basin searching for pristine "primitive" cultures (I don't even use that word!).

[phusion]

15. Wow, sweet!

I'm actually applying to an anthro grad school next summer (if Peace Corps doesn't happen, otherwise when I get back). Thinking about staying here at UNM or maybe going elsewhere, but I haven't looked around much yet.

I'll also be going into cultural/ethnography and I want to study spiritual ecology or indigenous media production (think Chipas Media Project).

Did you do fieldwork in a Mayan community?

Nice to meet you! :hi:

[Runcible Spoon]

19. I would suggest leaving your undergrad school

and going elsewhere for grad school. I got fucked when I stayed on for my MA at the same school. Most schools won't fund MA track students, and most schools won't let you do your PhD at the same school you did your undergrad. In my case I was told "you'll most likely get MA funding in the second year". Didn't happen. And then my MA advisor flew off to another school for a better paying position leaving me as well as a bunch of doctoral students fucked. I;m transferring out of here after this summer. Still waiting on funding decisions.

Do you mean Chiapas Media Project? I googled it and it looks really cool. One of my biggest problems with anthro is that we write academia for a limited audience and our research communities don't even have access to this information. Which is terrible bc then we get this God like complex that we are so "correct" because they don't have an outlet to respond to work within their own communities.

I worked in San Pedro Laguna, a village around Lake Atitlan. I was studying the struggle for tourist patronage between Mayan and expat business owners. Unfortunately all that data is useless to me since I went with a field school and we didn't have the right kind of IRB approval for me to use the data beyond a classroom setting. I was pissed!

Nice to meet you too!

[phusion]

24. Woops..

Yea, typo...Chiapas! :)

Sorry to hear about your funding, etc. Hope that works out!

Actually, while my minor is anthropology, my major is in print journalism so I don't think there will be a conflict. I don't know how this will effect my chance of getting into grad school but that's a whole 'nother story :)

It's funny, my mom and I were just talking about academics stay within their own world. I want to try to change this a bit...

Have you ever heard of Martin Prechtel? I've been reading a few of his books. He spent a few years in Santiago Atitlan but lives here in New Mexico most of the time. He writes some wonderful stuff...

[Runcible Spoon]

27. I'll have to check him out.

I went to the market in Santiago a few times. The lake is absolutely one of the most gorgeous places on earth. If you ever get the chance, check it out. I also highly recommend Utila, Honduras (Bay Islands- world's second largest barrier reef) before it gets too touristy.

[Runcible Spoon]

20. PS

if you manage to get into Peace Corps with just an Bachelor's I will be most impressed! It's gotten so competitive. I got drunk with a bunch of PC peeps in Panajachel. Good times, good times.

[phusion]

25. Interesting...

I don't know what the status is with everything right now. I've applied and am waiting to hear back from a recruiter.

Either way, I'm excited about PC or grad school. Exciting times!

Oh, and I've heard that PCers know how to party. :)

[Runcible Spoon]

30. ohh hell yeah.

once you get past the explosive diarrhea your GI track is ready for ANYTHING!

[Swamp Rat]

22. Ha! I mucked around Brasil,

but my thesis is on local, urban culture... lot's of "primitives" here in N'awlins. :D

I'm into the linguistics thing too. ;)

[Runcible Spoon]

23. super sweet another kindred cunning linguist.

what's your spe-cial-i-tay? I actually had a great time making up my own alien language once for an independent study. IIRC I had "alveo-velar gurgles" or some such phonological tomfoolery since my aliens had different physiology :evilgrin: On a more serious note I also did fieldwork with native Kenyan speakers of Kinyore.

[Swamp Rat]

26. colorless green ideas sleep furiously

:)

I'm into so many things I don't know where to begin... music is the main thing (I have a couple of degrees in music). Languages and language acquisition, sociolinguistics, local culture and transnational processes, urbanisation... cannibalism. :D

Here's the aliens you might have been talking about:

[Runcible Spoon]

29. OMG MY EYES

between you and Distressed American I'm gonna have my retinas burned out! seriously tho, love the art. Talk about hybrid discourses! Interesting how you spelled "urbanization"...I do the same thing and freakin spell check yells at me. Are you a Brit or an Aussie? I picked up the "s instead of z" habits I think from reading a lot of non-American theory ;)

heehee good ole colorless green ideas...I used to be a Chomskyite but was recruited to the dark side of praxis theory (post structuralists n such)

[Swamp Rat]

34. Naw, I'm from N'awlins

:)

So, I speak "Yat" (Brooklynese) as well. Funny you should mention the British 's' I use often. In the last post I let the spell checker screw up "colour" in the post title, but I said "NO!" to the computer when it tried to change "urbanisation." The quick answer is that I read a lot of English literature growing up and read The Guardian UK a lot as well... oh, and lots of peer-reviewed journals.

The funny thing is, after I acquired fluency in Spanish, I noticed my English was slipping. This didn't happen after I studied German (in Austria). It got much worse after I acquired fluency in Portuguese. Now I have trouble speaking English without throwing in non-English vocab. :shrug:

[Runcible Spoon]

36. how do you spell "grey"?

gray?? that one always gets me. Although I technically am supposed to be fluent in Spanish and German also, I can only speak one at a time ;) I got some pretty funky pidgin-ization goin' on when I'm drunk :evilgrin:

LOVE the N'awlins accent. Tied for sex appeal with Aussie speak.

[Swamp Rat]

38. merci

:* :D

How about "grae" or "grei?" ... I wish we could use IPA symbols here. :(

Btw, I have a lot of trouble speaking Spanish now ever since I lived in Brasil. Hell, I lived and studied in Costa Rica and had been speaking Spanish for many years! Even stranger is that I speak Portuguese very well but write Spanish better. The one GOOD thing is, now I can read Italian and French very easily, and Catalan even better... I should probably move to Galicia as everyone already thinks I am Gallego due to me screwed up language.

You should have seen me last night in the French Quarter after a few drinks! I was speaking four languages (including music) the whole night with my Brazilian and Mexican friends - we were playing samba in the streets and dancing, scaring the hell outta some of da anglophone tourists. :D

[Runcible Spoon]

44. ooo Galicia....

sounds like paradise right about now. I might be doing my PhD down south, so I'll make some trips to the Big Easy and get my aural fixation sated :evilgrin:

[Swamp Rat]

46. I was invited to go to San Sebastian, Spain for a U2 concert this August.

I have to take advanced statistics (part of the masters and PhD track - I'm doing both) this Summer - YUK! :( I really dig writing fugues but regular math pisses me off!

Anyway, I may not have the dinero for the trip to Spain... Imagine going to a U2 concert surrounded by Basque revolutionaries! :cry:

[Runcible Spoon]

47. C'mon! you must have SOMETHING saleable.

get your ass over there! I'll never forgive you if you don't!

[Swamp Rat]

51. That's what I was trying to explain to the naysayers!

Who needs a car when one has the opportunity to join the Lincoln Brigade II! :D

After all, I'll have free room and board, and local transportation! It's the damn plane ticket that will kill me! I'm friggin' broke! Estoy pelado! Sim grana cara! Kaput! :(

[SmileyBoy]

16. I'm up late studying for a ttrig test.

:(

[Runcible Spoon]

18. yack! math! devil get thee behind me!

:evilgrin: actually I had to take demography and statistics classes. I don't use the knowin' I got in those however. Altho I did do a lot of linguistics....syntax, phonological systems, historical reconstruction...and that stuff if mathy in a way.

[Bouncy Ball]

28. Got PBS Britcoms on

but this is the last one on tonight. Been making feeble attempts to finish the LAST section of my thesis introduction all evening (data analysis).

I've still got a few days, but I've stayed up too late and have nine, count 'em, NINE meetings tomorrow. From 8 to 4. Ech.

So I'll be getting back to working on this Tuesday.

[Runcible Spoon]

31. jeebus. 9 meetings??

are you one of those wierd persons who has one of these, umm, I think they're called "jobs"? :crazy:

[Bouncy Ball]

32. LOL

Yes, full-time. But normally I don't have nine meetings in one day. On Tuesday, I have three or four (one is tentative).

But that's unusual.

I'm in graduate school part-time.

[Robeson]

39. Writing or Rolling?....

[Runcible Spoon]

42. I'm done for the night.

20 pages of love done for now....:smoke:

[Runcible Spoon]

50. good night thread.

good night DU peeps!