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  • Queen of the Sciences

    Every new academic year, I feel an increasing sense of...*bleh*. Boredom. Lack of passion for what I do. No motivation. Just an all encompassing *bleh*. And usually once or twice a semester, I come across something that (if only briefly) reawakens the sociologist within me. Just now, I was re-reading [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2007, 10:28pm EDT
    by Mair

  • Can't take it anymore...

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    Cloudy96°F Feels Like 109°F [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2007, 3:29pm EDT
    by Mair

  • American Family Values?

    Sorry for the egoistic moment yesterday where I posted a picture of myself on my blog. Geez! Anyway... Judith Warner had an interesting piece in Times Select yesterday (my apologies to those of you who aren't full-time students with a free subscription). It was about how the majority of mothers, working [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2007, 10:45am EDT
    by Mair

  • 3 years ago...

    Three years ago today, I looked like this. I was younger, skinner, and had much longer hair. I also had a different name, lived in a different city, and didn't have a cat named Moses. What happened on this day changed my life forever. I got a new name, started [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2007, 10:26am EDT
    by Mair

  • Interesting

    Awhile ago I signed up for google analytics. It tells you how many people visit your site, from where, how they get there, etc. Well, today I discovered that someone had found their way to my blog by searching "problems that dead body cause in apartment." It took them to [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2007, 2:04pm EDT
    by Mair

  • Hmmm...

    Here is an interesting book review for you. It's about the industrial farming of chickens. The reviewer hates the book and takes a very cynical approach to the authors conviction that there is something morally wrong with the chicken industry. Here's an excerpt of the review: She starts by offering some [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2007, 11:08am EDT
    by Mair

  • Well-Trained Animals: A Sociological Anecdote

    Yesterday, Joshua and I were road-tripping home from Syracuse NY and my training as a sociologist completely failed to make me break out of the system into which I’ve been thoroughly socialized. It went like this: We were lost somewhere in the Northeast corner of Pennsylvania looking for the cabin [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2007, 1:06pm EDT
    by Mair

  • Discouraged

    So far, summer has not been what it was supposed to be intellectually. At the end of every Spring, I start planning my intellectual projects for the summer - things that will validate me as a productive graduate student. This summer I was supposed to be reading for a comp [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2007, 11:07am EDT
    by Mair

  • Time for a Change

    Well, it's been a busy week. We're in the process of moving here: It's a charming little place in the trendy North Downtown area of the Ville. We're renting the downstairs of this duplex that was built in 1892. It's quirky and fun. The old tenant left it disgustingly filthy, so [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2007, 10:37am EDT
    by Mair

  • Pictoral Update

    J. Morgan and I have been quite busy these days . Here's a recap in pictures: First, we went here for 5 days. These pictures were taken during the few sunny hours, when we swam in this beautiful ocean. Even though it was a lot of clouds and rain, we had a [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2007, 9:06pm EDT
    by Mair

  • Mrs. Roboto

    I've crossed another milestone: finishing coursework forever! I am very happy to say that I am done taking graduate classes. This isn't what that's about, however. It's about a perpetual problem that I have when I cross milestones. I think they are all anti-climatic. And this has led to another [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2007, 5:21pm EDT
    by Mair

  • Troubling

    I just read this article in the NY Times. I highly recommend it. It's a very disturbing, thought-provoking piece about the rise of infant mortality in the poorest regions of Mississippi. I don't really know what to say about it. It reminded me of this book by a former professor. [...]
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    Posted: May 03, 2007, 12:16pm EDT
    by Mair

  • Fertility and Value-Rationality

    I'm in the middle of working on the last two term papers that I will ever write. I cannot express the joyous celebration that will ensue when I'm done! Anyway, I'm using these two papers to investigate a topic that I'm heavily leaning towards for a dissertation topic - the [...]
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    Posted: April 20, 2007, 6:08pm EDT
    by Mair

  • I Passed!

    In case anyone wanted to know. [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2007, 7:42pm EDT
    by Mair

  • It's done.

    Well, it's over. I wrote 24 pages in 8 hours. I've never done that in my life. In case anyone is interested, here are the three questions I answered: (1) How have the family changes of the last half-century affected middle/upper-class vs. working-class/poor Americans in different ways? How are recent family trends connected [...]
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    Posted: April 11, 2007, 3:04pm EDT
    by Mair

  • 25 books and 30 articles later...

    Tomorrow is the day. I have 9 hours to take everything I know about the sociology of the family and distill it into 3 essays. I thought I was going to have 24 hours, but my chair prefers a work-day length exam. I've been spending the last week divining what I [...]
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    Posted: April 09, 2007, 8:05pm EDT
    by Mair

  • A post about wasting time (while I was wasting time)

    I'm totally caught in a time-wasting trap these days. I'm getting pretty tired of reading about the family. It's at the point now where the reading is pretty redundant. I mean, how many different times do I have to read about how the 1950s was an aberrant decade and the [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2007, 9:25am EDT
    by Mair

  • Reader Participation, Please.

    It doesn't make any sense that in the midst of such intense and tiresome reading, I'm thinking about reading this summer. But, I'm getting really tired of all the books about the sociology of family, religion, and comparative history that I've been reading this semester. So I'm thinking a lot [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2007, 4:47pm EDT
    by Mair

  • 9 books left!

    I only have 9 books left on my reading list. There is one that I'm not planning on reading, because I've already read it twice. (This may be a mistake, because through a fortunate series of events, the author is now my exam chair!!! But, I've read it twice, people!) [...]
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    Posted: March 22, 2007, 5:23pm EDT
    by Mair

  • Stupid Green Quiz

    Ok, so this is about the most un-scholarly thing I could ever post but I'm having a bad day (due to a bad day yesterday that didn't strike me as bad until today - call it, belated moping.) Anyway, I found this stupid quiz, and my love for GREEN compelled [...]
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    Posted: March 21, 2007, 3:16pm EDT
    by Mair

  • Do this.

    I found this website that tells you how rich you are compared to the rest of the world's population. Then, it tells you what your money could buy in other nations. Do it. It's enlightening. [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2007, 10:35am EDT
    by Mair

  • Score!!!

    I'm now at the point in my reading where I am repeating books that I've read before. Most of them are books I read about two years ago when I took sociology of the family. This morning, I remembered that for that class, we had to write 'memos' of each [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2007, 8:02am EDT
    by Mair

  • Surprise!

    As you may have noticed, there have been some changes around here. I hope you like them. Joshua and I had the always-enjoyable privileged of spending some time with our college-roommates (who conveniently married each other) K & E over the weekend. It was an abbreviated trip, but great anyway! [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2007, 5:34pm EST
    by Mair

  • Plugging away...

    Last week, in a professionalization seminar in my department (yeah, the idea of sociologists acting professional is strange to me, too), one of my professors said something absolutely amazing. It was even more amazing coming from this guy, as he is pretty much the current authoritative voice in his field. [...]
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    Posted: February 27, 2007, 9:41pm EST
    by Mair

  • 25 books 25 days

    I've procrastinated too long on preparing for my upcoming comprehensive exam. So, this morning, Joshua - the master of all scheduling - figured out that in order for me to get all the books read, reserve a week for articles, and have a week to review and write before the [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2007, 5:25pm EST
    by Mair

  • First 2007 Road Trip

    Joshua and I took the weekend to visit my parents in PA. It was a very nice time, but way too short. A few images from our trip: When we go on the road, we throw most dietary restrictions out the window...and that's how Joshua ended up with this nostalgic bottle [...]
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    Posted: February 20, 2007, 9:39am EST
    by Mair

  • Proof That Graduate School is Bad for Your Health

    1. I've been in grad school for 3 years now. For two of those years, I've gotten the flu. (Yes, for two of those years I also neglected to get a flu shot, but as we all know, correlation does not prove causation. That and - I was too busy [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2007, 5:01pm EST
    by Mair

  • I'll take mine with a side of teleology, thank you.

    Yesterday, I was reading an essay for one of my classes that was dealing with the issue of time in historical sociology. The author was addressing three uses of temporality in sociological explanation, one of which was teleological temporality whereby causes are explained in light of some end goal or [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2007, 2:44pm EST
    by Mair

  • Working from home

    My schedule this semester permits me to work from home much more than I was able last semester. I love this. I'm so much more productive from home, and being a natural home body, I just feel so much more at peace from home. But, as you can see from [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2007, 10:56am EST
    by Mair

  • fyi

    I'm working on giving this blog an overhaul. Be on the lookout for changes - including a possible new address. I will keep you posted. In the meantime, read about Uganda below - and COMMENT! [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2007, 4:57pm EST
    by Mair

  • The Moment You've All Been Waiting For...

    I've been dreading this post, just because it's impossible to sum up two weeks in Uganda in any meaningful way in a blog post. BUT, because I love you all so much, and because I don't feel like reading 60 pages of Economy and Society by Weber, I've decided to [...]
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    Posted: January 18, 2007, 2:28pm EST
    by Mair

  • Merry Christmas!

    Friends and Family, We're getting ready to leave for Uganda. What a strange Christmas this is! Thank you all for your continuing prayers while we travel and while we're away. We're excited, nervous, unsure of what to expect, and also a little confused by the feelings we're experiencing of flying [...]
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    Posted: December 25, 2006, 8:37am EST
    by Mair

  • "Come and be with us."

    I wanted to take a minute to respond to this comment from Jackscolon -- and I wanted to do it in a new post, because it coincides with something I've been wanting to post before we go to Uganda. Here's what Jacks' said: With the exclusion of you (who I've [...]
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    Posted: December 21, 2006, 12:26pm EST
    by Mair

  • Uganda T -7 days

    As of 8:30am this morning, I am officially done with my semester. It feels good. I spent the day doing things that are strangely enjoyable to me -- like cleaning the fridge and the rest of the kitchen and just doing around the house things. I also took an hour [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2006, 4:18pm EST
    by Mair

  • Morbid Musings

    Sometimes I think about the most random things and have some really weird questions as a result. Last night was one such occasion. I don't remember how it happened, but Joshua and I started talking about morticians. Oh - I just remembered how it happened, but that doesn't matter now. [...]
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    Posted: December 13, 2006, 3:22pm EST
    by Mair
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