Purge

Purge
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I recently got back from Philly where the American Anthropological Association had their annual meeting. Overall, the meeting went well. I enjoyed seeing some people I rarely have contact with, and I met some new people as well. It was more tiring than usual, since I volunteered as a photographer for Anthropology News. I ended up doing a lot more running around than I would have on my own. Still, I got to see some things that I would have probably missed otherwise.

But the work isn't done. There's much to do now that I am back. The conference was great for everyone needing a reason to get new ideas out into the public. Hopefully people got some decent feedback, and some encouragement for the work they'll be doing in the next year.

It has been a while

Yes, I know it's been a very long time since I last posted. In fact, even Shaily wrote me some mean messages because I hadn't been posting. I guess I should never assume that nobody is reading this blog. Apparently someone is always interested. If they're interested in what you have to say or they are just interested in wasting time is not important now. What is important, however, is that there is slight demand for me to keep up with this.

One of the things keeping me away has been the work I have been doing. I recently went to the LASA meeting in Rio de Janeiro to present a paper on capoeira and transnational something-or-other. I hope to continue working on the topic, so it was a great chance to get some of the thoughts down on paper (or screen). Now that I'm back, I'm trying to get back into my dissertation writing. I've begun to write again, but it's never easy to switch topics.

Besides all this, I have been working on a photoblog for the last few months. I have been posting images to Misfired Pixels as well as on Flickr (Hopefully blogger doesn't have a problem with me linking these sites here. We'll see if they do anything about it.) If you're interested, check out the sites. Feel free to leave comments, good or bad. Photography is something that I enjoyed some time ago, but I have neglected my camera for years. I'm only now beginning to make up for that lost time.