I made this video for some friends in Venna. It actually was Mel’s idea. Every time she would hear this song should thought of the Brady Bunch dancing. Anyway, I think it works. It is a lot funnier if you know the people in the band as well.

YouTube - Venna Old School Video.

The semester is almost over and I will be then updating the site with more content than is currently on here. Mostly the projects page.

I also need to find a good blogging software other than the logging in here. I tend not to write as much when I have to log into my site because I forget what I really wanted to say.

I am unfortunately still sifting through Edward Ross’s personal coorspondances for my short thesis. I have sifted through about fifteen micro-fiche reels, each averaging about 1000 pages. I figure I’ve probably looked at about 1500 pages, not including the amount of published material of his. I’m not complaining, it is a lot of good material to work with. I’m just saying, I’ll be glad when it is finished.

I ran across a book the other day in Borders. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand. It covers the intellectual history after the civil war till just prior to WW I. The book mainly covers major thinkers of that time. I picked it up, perused it (it included small sections on Edward Ross) and thought, “this is the kind of history I want to do.” It was a nice feeling to have some kind of academic direction. I’m building my reading list for this summer and really look forward to reading this one.

Also, April 8th is the day I will be presenting what I’ve been working on for this school year. Hopefully I do well.

I am, every day, looking like a terrible writer. My academic work always appears as a freshmen college student wrote it at the first several drafts. I can’t seem to convince my professor of that and the suggestion of visiting the “writing center” was pretty embarassing.

Though I’m not the best writer, the final product is usually up to par with where I should be. But, it takes me several passes to get it right. Maybe that is what graduate school is good for, making me a better writer or at least appear to be a better academic.

Second, Mel and I will be heading to the Chicago area for the weekend (including Monday). We are bring the new pup with us. We think she does alright in the car, but we’ve never taken her in the car for more than 30 mins, so we’ll see how well she does.

All for now I guess.