hvincent @hvincent@scholar.social

hi!

i have a computer science and creative writing background, and i've worked in lab/studio management at a photo program for a while. i've also been doing history and anthropology coursework in an unofficial postbac/predoc kinda way, and considering real grad school in the next few years.

my interests are identity construction/boundary making, knowledge systems, land/environment usage; i enjoy being a generalist, though, so i'm stoked to hear about what y'all do!

#introduction

is anyone going to the american #anthropology annual meeting in vancouver this year? i'm extremely unlikely to attend but i read about a dog-based ethnography panel happening and it's highly intriguing to me, i am hoping someone goes to it so i can hear about it afterwards :3

workday is such rubbish, there's a million redundant notifications for the same item and also:

"Performing this task does not mark this To-Do as complete."

update on this: taking the semester off from coursework to focus on getting some personal things in my life back in order after a chaotic summer, catching up on reading, and re-evaluating my goals.

oh, but i forgot to tell this morning's class that i'm extremely face-blind and will need them to say hi and remind me who they are at least 50 times before i can semi-reliably recognize them in arbitrary locations on campus, oh well, maybe i'll remember to tell the afternoon classes.

anyway undergrads are precious especially in the first week of the fall semester, yesterday, someone who i gave a tour to as a prospective student in the hazy past just dropped into my office to link up with us again and i was very pleased

but also, take it easy, everyone, it's only the first week of class, don't overcommitt yourselves already!!!

this semester, on top of my usual collection of PSAs and announcements to new students when introducing myself to classes, i have also thrown in 'if you think you need to change your major but aren't sure if your parents will accept you' as a sample of additional random advice i will offer n_n

(previously, i have offered 'if you're about to break up with someone but want to talk through it first')

started reading 'wild dog dreaming' by deborah bird rose; it was recommended to me last semester while i was working on my ethdography and i didn't have the space to give it some good attention. i'm glad i took some time off and i'm glad i'm reading it now :)

i'm writing a recommendation for the reappointment of a faculty member in response to the department soliciting responses, is it appropriate to address this as 'to whom it may concern' or should i figure out exactly the committee that's reading it?

honestly right now the only thing i'm feeling is 'well, if i take a class it's one more thing on my transcript that i can show when i'm applying to grad school', but i have so much post-bacc stuff that one more class isn't going to make or break anything, and i don't like putting this kind of pressure on myself anyway, i want this to be at least more for the sake of learning and growing than for buffing any potential application because i don't actually care about paperwork

i've been leaning towards not taking a class in the fall bc it's been a few years since i've taken a break from coursework. towards the end of last semester i was definitely overwhelmed with All Things that pushed me beyond my reasonable self.

i don't really have to make a decision until classes start, since i'm non-degree and can pretty much beg my way onto any roster (once i joined a class during the 2nd week and it still worked out), so i think i'll just give myself space to feel it out.

anyway i wonder if i want to take a class next semester or if i'm enjoying my break too much (it's halfway through summer break and that's like six weeks without homework).

look all i have to say is that one time, one of my students wanted help with editing an image for class; she lowered her voice and said, in a very embarrassed tone, 'i, uh, don't use photoshop. i use this other free program, it's called....th...e.... ...g....im....p......'.

i dislike having to tell my students it's okay if they can't afford a photoshop license and it's not their fault the next most viable alternative has a name that is not polite to say out loud in class.

we made an offer on a house that we really like and it's been accepted!! shit's moving fast. gonna move in next month if all goes well :)

@Galdrakinn here's a good baby birb

satisfying: someone coming into my office with an external hard drive where the usb port sheared off; i pried open the enclosure and retrieved the intact drive and sent the student to the computer store to source a new enclosure.

it's finals crunch season, everyone!

do i...have the nerve to use comic sans, though

look pals i'm in the grad section of a predominantly undergraduate class and i'm not even a real grad student, i don't have much at stake here, i'm going to have some fun.

(also the work is actually legit, dogs are real and we have a real co-history with them and they know things we don't we should listen to them and also they're good.

putting together slides for a little presentation i'm giving to the class this
week and i sure did just title a slide 'practical ethdography' and included two
pictures of me at age 7 gently grasping the skull of a great dane, which is
easily larger than my torso.

i fan't believe it took me like three months to think of

"anthropawlogy"