Week 2: Funding Proposals & Zombies

My proposal for funding from WWU's grad school for my thesis research is written and turned in. It was signed by the head of the Anthropology department and the Dean and is now in the hands of the funding committee. Cross your fingers. They will only fund up to $1000 (or about half of my budgeted expenses), but it would be awesome to get any funding. 

I went home over the weekend to see Kelly and the kids. It was difficult to work on my proposal while I was there, but I enjoyed being home immensely. 

My classes are going well. We are working our way through Australopithecines in Primate Evolution. We've read Marx, Durkheim, Mauss and now Gramsci in the History of Anthropology.  The stats class I TA is learning how to use the stats software (SPSS). I've taken stats before, but we did paper and pencil stats, not computer based, so I am learning how to use SPSS too. 

It was sunny and warm for about a week, but it is raining again. I hope it will wash some of the pollen away. It's beautiful here with all the trees and flowers, but ahchoo!  When it isn't raining, I will go out and take some photos. 

It's time for the Zombies vs. Humans game again. There are people running all over campus with Nerf guns. Someone put out baskets of flowers for the zombies with a note that says if they don't have any one to put flowers on their grave, that they should take a flower and the note writer will mourn for them. People are so weird. (Not a very anthropological perspective, is it?)