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!