Daily Newsie

It was a fight. Two fights, actually, but neither one involved weapons … unless, I suppose, you count these. *flexes* After a few press conferences and more than enough rumors, life has returned to normal at the college on the hill. We communication folk looove to analyze, so my crisis communication class has been picking apart the university’s response and debating whether Wednesday’s events are, definitionally speaking, eligible for classification as a bona fide crisis. Nerds, all of us.

Speaking of nerds, it’s my morning off and I’m working on my methodology section. It’s thisclose to being done, having gotten a major boost from my discovery earlier this week that grounded theory and the constant-comparative method are the same thing. That doesn’t mean much to most people, but to me it meant that I could quit trying to decide between the two. Frustration over, the words practically flew out of my head and onto the paper, prompting DNC to proclaim this effort “much, much better” than the previous one. I just have a few more sentences to write and then it’s time to defend my proposal to my committee. After that, only a few more steps remain before I’m actually interviewing people. I’m not ready to think about that yet.

I only need one more gold star before I get to buy myself a present. I’m leaning toward a laptop, but given the state of my finances lately I should probably scale back a bit. Ideas?