A Bitter Knitter

April.  The fourth month of the year. It is designated as, among other things, Autism Awareness Month , Frog Month , National Kite Month (reminds me of Charlie Brown ), and ... Stress Awareness Month.  Fitting.  Ask any college student. I'm plugging away.  Keeping very busy.  (Would probably be less busy if I didn't go on Facebook.  Oh, well.)  I got my grant proposal and scholarship applications sent in and my prof and I got the big grant proposal done electronically... it was just waiting for signatures to go off in physical form.  Cross your fingers when you get a chance and wish us luck on all of them! My poster is done and ready for my presentation tomorrow, I just need to plug through some more audio files so that I have more than four examples...but I spent all day editing video and I'm kind of burned out.  The forum on undergraduate research is tomorrow afternoon.  My prof has actually cancelled class in favour of the foru...

Time keeps marching relentlessly forward and then races past, bringing April closer and closer.  Deadlines for grant proposals and papers are looming nearer...  I really should get off Blogger and get to work on my poster, because (insert severe sarcasm) thanks to furloughs (and spring break) I have to print it by Thursday of next week, even though that presentation isn't until the 6th of April.  Sigh... But we're hoping to videotape our speakers on Tuesday for my presentation at WAIL.  BIL's scarf is progressing slowly, but I'm hoping to have it done by the 1st weekend of April as well, for BIL's birthday.  (Act surprised, Sid!)  But I have finished the unbloggable projects I mentioned... hope to get those mailed off tomorrow.  Pictures soon! And, thanks to the turning and tilting of the planet (which corresponds with the passing of time) we are coming up on the Vernal Equinox on Saturday.  It's really been lovely the past few days....

One required LING 300 class leads to... A linguistic depth of study and minor, and to... Not going into elementary education after all (not just for that reason, but it is part of it), which leads to... LING 480: Field Methods, which leads to... Getting involved with creating a tri-lingual click-and-hear dictionary, which leads to... Submitting a paper to WAIL (the Workshop on American Indigenous Languages hosted at UCSB), which leads to... Getting my paper accepted for WAIL (April 30th & May 1st), which leads to... Submitting an application for a grant (Due April 1st) and to... Presenting my research at a forum on "Advancing Undergraduate Research" at CSUSM on April 6th and to... Submitting an application for a much, much bigger grant (also due April 1st.  Go figure), which means... A whole lotta work and research to do, in addition to the usual homework load. So, as you can see, it's all my LING 300 professor's fault.  If her class hadn't been so...