Fun stuff...

So the apartment is coming together. A friend came over last night to help me hook up my receiver - so now I have surround sound again! Now I just have to figure out the remote control and figure out what's wrong with the subwoofer. The remote control is this monstrous LCD touch screen thingy with a billion different settings. The sub is not responding to the sound checks, but I know it's working because it did give a buzz when unplugged and plugged back into the receiver input. I suspect it has to do with the audio settings of the receiver - so I'll have to read that manual to figure out what's going on.

I'm also looking forward to seeing Heathen & Cillic this weekend for The Queen of the Universe's wedding! We will likely head out to neo this Friday for a little while too. So that'll be fun.

It's not a huge deal because it's an in-house conference (i.e., not a national conference or anything), but my thesis was accepted as part of a panel discussion on educational reform issues for the Sociological Society conference on campus. That's the kick in the ass I needed to do some revisions and split apart the entire document into publishable pieces. This, of course, means condensing 60 pages into a 15 minute presentation. I plan to cut out a lot of the background political analysis and focus on the current situation and proposed solutions for Afghan education reconstruction. Even that, in 15 minutes will be tough.


I might even look into what conferences are coming up this next year and submit to some of those. However, travel will be a problem, so I'd probably only submit to local conferences. I can, however submit pieces as journal submissions for various sociology, political science, women's studies, and human rights journals.