Ah yes, that time of year again….for the semester in review! Guys, I am so freaking ready to be done with school. I need a real job! I need a real income! Sorry. Ok, this semester I only took two classes, one was an ethics and grant writing class and the other was a hunter-gatherer class.
The ethics and grant writing was ok. We discussed a lot of ethical situations, and how you might deal with them. This was actually more interesting than I first thought it would be. We then discussed how to write competitive grants. I found a few useful things from this part of the course, but most of it I had already heard. Though admittedly I have more grant experience than most of the other grad students here. A smart, yet short and interesting resource we used in the grant portion was entitled “Writing from the Winner’s Circle: A Guide to Preparing Competitive Grant Proposals” by David Stanley. This is a good little resource and can be found at http://epscor.unl.edu/rfps/winnerscircle.shtml
The hunter-gatherers class was good. It could have been better, but the class schedule got screwed this semester so that we ended up not meeting that often. This meant we weren’t able to get into a lot of the topics that we wanted to. Overall it was good though. We discussed the characteristics of hunter-gatherers in prehistory and how they interacted with their neighbors. Don’t have any really good articles to give you as you have probably read them already. As I said, we just didn’t have enough time to really get into the interesting topics we would have liked.
On my own research notes. I’m just about to submit an article to the Journal of Archaeological Science on using soft X-rays in perishable research. I hope this one gets in, it would be a good publication. I’m planning on spending the break finishing up a curation article I hope to have submitted by the beginning of next year, and of course, the ever present grant writing for dissertation money. I’ll also be running a week long survey out in the Nevada desert for one of my professors (I need the cash!). Oh, and I might work on the experimental granaries paper for publication somewhere. Though I’m not quite sure if that one is worth it, we’ll see. I’ll also be going up to Utah to visit my in-laws. On the way I’m going to stop by some old fellas who have sandals in their private collections and see if I can convince them to donate them to my dissertation (I think I’m going to dissect one or two). Working with the good ole boys and destroying artifacts, what the h have I come to! Hope you all are enjoying the break. Take some time off and relax.
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