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.