I’m enjoying my last $1 shake. Never has a chocolate chip shake tasted so bittersweet. I also gave away my futon today to a friend from the MAPSS program who will be staying at the U of C to get her PhD in the Anthro department. Its strange to have it gone as its the first peice of furnature I owned in my adult life.

Packing is going too slow. But I’m working at it.

I just got two class grades back for this quarter (both A’s!!!).

And I had a great meeting with Village Voice and Wired journalist and all around good guy Julian Dibble to talk about my thesis. Very useful as he pointed me in a number of good directions. Then I also got to talk with my friend Tina whose working on blogs. I’m really going to miss the many face to face ideation sessions I’ve had here. Its been amazing to have so much time to talk about ideas with so many specialists. Its something I really want to help to foster where ever I end up working.

As for now, back to packing.

The Chinese Medicine paper is finally in. What a debacle. I bit off more than I could chew and delivered late (literally a week late). Not an ostentatious finish. But on the plus side, I’ve gotten good feedback on the thesis. And I got a free lunch from the head of the MAPSS program (perspective MAPSS students: know John. love John. Again, his bark > his bite).

Now it’s packing time. Bleh.

My brothers come in on Friday. I leave for Rochester Sunday. I have a hell of a lot of packing to do in between. And a couple important meetings in there as well.

Hey all, for those who might be interested here is a rough version that outlines where the arguement is headed and contains a breakdown of bot interactions. Download it here.

The tally of remaining work stands at:

• 2 short (4 pages each) final essays outstanding from fall quarter. Yes, I know it’s terrible. They’re outlined, I just need to finish them. They’ll be done over the summer
• 20 page final paper for Culture and Media. The draft of this is done and represents the outline of my thesis. I’ll be handing it in on Wednesday.
• 10 page paper on how Chinese Medicine is being taught in the states. I have the data, and have parsed it, but I’ve yet to form opinions. This is due on Friday.
• 20 page paper on Photography. I have no idea where I’m going with this one and it will be worked on over the summer. I have a feeling I’ll be looking at photo blogging.
• ~40-60 page thesis. The biggie. First draft is due around July 11th. I’ve got approximately 28 pages. So I need to at least double it. This will be the official challenge of the summer. You can take a look at the first pass here.

What can I say my works cut out for me. Less than two weeks before I’m back in Rochester. I really need to start packing.