RAINBOW

JUST NOW!

The tools make the master

Now I can go do research!

April snow brings WHAT?

View from my window this morning. In the two winters I've spent here it hasn't snowed. Why now?

What is to be memed?

Sophie gloriously tagged me to continue the blog-meme and I'm so out of touch with the sphere that it's taking me more than one week to realize I was even tagged!

Memes are cool. So are boyfriends. Mine probably thinks the idea of a meme is lame because it has to do with culture. And he's mostly interested in class. As in The Class Struggle.

I copy paste the meme instructions from Sophie's post as I "conveniently" have Howard S. Becker's "Tricks of the Trade" sitting next to me on my bed.

On page 123, I counted down 5 sentences, and here are the next 3 sentences:

wait whole sentences, or does the first sentence fragment count as a sentence? ssssshhh!

What good would it be to get sure knowledge about something when you couldn't apply that knowledge anywhere else? This concern is enshrined in the well-known distinction between idiographic and nomothetic sciences. Students especially, I think, want to put their case (the thing they studied) into some conceptual category, for the very good reason that if they can do that then all the justifications for why you should study such things are ready-made and easily available to them.

Discuss amongst yourselves I'm now off to some knowledge business and conceptualizing.

But I promise I'm around. I obviously have to tag some people. So here goes the new maman et papa, Mike and Rion, and La Coquette, who doesn't know me (but everybody else whose blog I follow has already done the meme.)

I'm back

Lookit! I'm famous! Pauline too!

But I can't even go to the show because I'll be out of town.

Oh what a beautiful morning...

Things that have happened since I last posted:

1. I got a bike. Not the pink one but an even sexier white-silver Décathlon with blue tires that has gotten looks and compliments all over town.

2. I got into the Master's program I really wanted to get into. I've attended the orientation session. I've gotten my student ID card (from the Ecole Normale Supérieure), and classes start next week.

3. I moved into a huge apartment (VISIT ALERT!) at the metro stop Crimée with two other peeps, Jeanne and Bruno. The apartment is currently having its electrical circuits redone and it will be repainted shortly, meaning that I'm living in dust and I have to take a plastic sheet off my bed before I go to sleep. Nevertheless, I'm very happy and we're going to have a housewarming party in early November.

4. I signed up for a student unlimited metro pass (things like this really excite me.)

5. I signed up for an unlimited movie theatre pass.

6. I was renewed as an English assistant at the same lycée that I taught at last year.

7. I've watched World Cup Rugby games (including one in a stadium) and cheered and mourned for France.

8. I've booked tickets to Vienna for early November.

9. I've written a bunch of articles for Gridskipper, including one on Public Sex in Paris which has gotten almost 5000 views. HOT. (Germanophilia, Café au comptoir, After Work Parties,

10. I've cursed at a truck driver in French for almost running me off the road.

11. I've met cool people and am happy hanging out with old ones that were away for the summer. I'm very excited that La Fille en Rose is coming back for another year (and hopefully more!) of Paris.