This past Friday was full of lots of ups and downs. To begin with, we ran out data col­lec­tion for Social Psy­chol­ogy. For our exper­i­ment, we con­ducted 48 inter­views. All of our par­tic­i­pants were recruited from the Reynolds Club, the clos­est thing to a Stu­dent Union, here on campus.

This is my group: Andrea, Shewta, Eric.

This is one of the essays that we had people read. The cru­cial thing in all of this is the pic­ture. Some had Jordan (this rather punky pic­ture), others had Irene (more con­ser­v­a­tive) and some had no picture.

Here I am with my researcher face on.

48 surveys… Rock On! Of course now its time for data entry… bleh

On the down­side, I had my car van­dal­ized. Some jerk bashed in my driver’s window. Strangely noth­ing was stolen. Even more strangely I would have felt better if some­thing was. Having an item stolen would have pro­vided me with a sense that there was a pur­pose to the attack on my poor Subaru. Thank­fully I was able to get the window fixed on Sat­ur­day. Here’s a shot of the car-​nage

Tomor­row this begins in earnest. The goal of this blog is for me to sit­u­ate and the­o­rize on pub­licly sharable head­notes and field­notes over the course of my research.

I’m also going to cap­ture research issues per­tain­ing directly and indi­rectly to “cyber-anthrology” (and I promise that will be the last time I use that phrase.

I cannot stess how accu­rate this web­comic is. Wel­come to my fieldwork.

Sorry for the lack of post­ing. Under­wa­ter does not describe my life right now. I’m through one midterm and trying to wrap on two arti­cles. Plus I’m about to launch a second blog (Wait… did he just say second blog???!!! It will all make sense soon).

Plus things are going to get more visual now that I have a dig­i­tal camera. So as a hold over I present a visual story I call grab­bing a hotdog on the way back from the airport!

a sub­stan­tial update is coming soon.

the short short is that the pre­sen­ta­tion went well. I’m buried in work and research.

I’ll have more to share soon.

btw… you no longer have to be a blog­ger member to leave com­ments with a name.

- Matt

So my prop­sal goes up against the wall tonight. Call­ing it a defense is a bit of hyper­bole. How­ever, the way these group meet­ings go it can get pretty hairy. Either way I expect to walk out with a number of holes blown through it.

So I plan to allow alco­hol to help medi­ate the stress. We’re going out for a drink with the head of the pro­gram after this week.