college stuff

[edenfalling]

I have printed my Cultural Anthropology syllabus. I have printed the instructions for the three assignments -- an ethnographic reading, an ethnographic experience, and an ethnographic interview. I have read the two textbook chapters assigned for the first week. I have emailed my professor to say hi.

And then I logged into the Slack workspace Prof. T set up for class discussions, so as to get a timely start on my class participation... and he hadn't created the first week discussion channel yet. *headdesk*

I might print hard copies of the PDF chapters for highlighting and margin notes, or I might not. We'll see how I feel about that on Monday afternoon.

On Monday morning I have a meeting with my scholarship coordinator, which requires an inconvenient bus trip both there and back. (Too early in the morning going there, too long a wait between the meeting's end and the bus's arrival going back.) I may peek into the bookstore and see about buying some new highlighters, and also a nice green pen to note all my reading and assignment dates on my wall calendar, since my old green pen is dying. (I color-code my calendar notes. Black is work, purple is church, green is school, red is my menstrual cycle, and blue is everything else -- birthdays, travel plans, visits, appointments, concerts, recycling days, etc.)

Also, if you belong to any interesting subcultures (religious, leisure activity, workplace, whatever) and are willing to talk about them for my ethnographic interview in a few months, drop me a comment?

Comments

[alexseanchai]

wrt subcultures: online polytheist community

[alexseanchai]

also media fandom, but let's be real, you will have a million volunteers wrt media fandom, and wrt polytheist community of any sort, probs just me

[edenfalling]

*makes note* Thanks for offering!

(It has to be a subculture I'm not part of, which thoroughly rules out fandom.)

[alexseanchai]

oh gotcha :)

[alexseanchai]

also one might could argue that both online neurodivergent community and online intersectional-activist community are subcultures in themselves?

[wistfulmemory]

I sent a message. :)

[edenfalling]

Cool, thank you! :)

[albedinous]

I'm openly trans (ftm), spend a good bit of time involved in my local makerspace, and have been loosely involved with local environmental restoration for fifteen years or so, if any of that is useful.

(The trans thing is more cultural than it sounds; there's a lot of networking and mentoring involved, especially if you're anywhere near teenagers.)

(Also, hi! We've spoken a few times; I hope your journal is still quasi-public enough that commenting isn't weird. DW feels so much more 'private' than the heyday of LJ.)

[edenfalling]

Hi! Yes, my journal is public -- in fact, it is so public that I don't bother giving access to anyone because I never filter entries. *wry*

Those all sound interesting, the makerspace in particular. I have been curious about those for a few years now but keep forgetting to do actual research on my local one. [moving images at link] Anyway, the assignment isn't for a few months yet, but I may drop a line in March or April. :)

[albedinous]

Likewise. I miss the old LJ days; Tumblr has never quite been my thing.

Sounds good. :)

Your local one looks pretty neat! It's far enough away from mine that I haven't heard about it through the grapevine, but it looks pretty solidly put together, and looks like it's avoiding the 'bro culture' some makerspaces get into.