Lately

It's probably bad form to only blog once a week but eh, it's my form. I've been pretty busy lately. I had visitors last week, 20 pages to write on top of classes, and this week rebelled and read a book I bought at ASA this fall (a non-sociological book, mind you): Three Cups of Tea.

It's about a mountaineer who got lost after climbing K2 (and becoming quite exhausted after having to help save a co-climber instead of sleeping for a few days) and happened to end up in an impoverished village in Pakistan. He saw the crappy conditions they lived in and the generosity they had for this stranger and vowed to make a difference in their lives. He flew home to America, saved money for a year, and then made his way back to Pakistan to build them a school. More than ten years and 30 schools later, he'd made a career of helping develop schools for students in Pakistan. (He later moved on to building schools in Afghanistan too.) YOU SHOULD READ IT!

After such a school-centered week it's been nice to relax and read for leisure, something I don't often get to do. I've got to get back into the swing of things this week and I'm not sure how well that's going to go. I feel like I have a few big things to do for the rest of the semester but overall it's a lot of little stuff. I need to keep working on my thesis too.

Also, Daylight Savings Time has made me a sleepy lass. It's 10:37 and I'm thinking about bedtime... Hmmm.