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Thursday, December 15, 2005
Holiday Break
My extended holiday vacation began last week and now I am home in Winston Salem for the rest of the month, prepared for battle in the nonexistent war on Christmas. The weather here is icy, cold, and wet…quite different from the 70+ highs I’m used to in Tampa. The power went out about an hour before I arrived in town so it was a chilly welcome, but after a warm meal at K&W Cafeteria with my parents all was well and the power was back on by the time we got back.
It’s great to be back, although a sick part of me misses the caffeine-fueled nights of researching and writing, stressing out about the structure of each single sentence…for ten pages. My baby, the paper for Chiefdoms, apparently was quite good because it garnered a 19 out of 20 score although I honestly wasn’t 100% happy with it. I suppose the saying is true: you are you own worst critic. I ended up scrapping the entire second half of the rough draft (about state-level water management and ancestry of the ancient Maya) and expanded on domestic use of water. The scrapped section seemed forced; the final version of the paper still had those rough edges that only practice will remedy down the road.
So I’m settled here for the next few weeks. I’m heading back to Florida on the 2nd when I’m going to Ft. Lauderdale on the 3rd with some colleagues to see King Tut (or what’s left of him). It’s quite amusing how the King Tut tour resembles a rock band tour…hitting different cities, sold out shows, and spectacular performances.
Posted by Will at December 15, 2005 10:51 PM in Personal Reflections