Thundercats are GO!

I think I've done everything I need to before the conference. I've packed (though I'm sure I'm forgetting about something majorly important), I've done homework, I've figured out my finances (I have just enough within my comfort zone), and ... I have a sleeping bag. I put in my time card at work, and will (hopefully) be getting paid Saturday.

Things are looking awesome.

Marcella (the professor I've been doing research with) suggested something that kind of rocked my little Arthurian world the other day. She talked about incorporating Summer of Solutions into a project on environmental activism vs. class/labor union activism and building a green economy.

Now is the time to do that kind of thing. The economy fucking sucks, and most people are admitting we should at least attempt to do something about climate change.

Problem? The collaborative research proposal deadline is March 20th. I don't know if I can switch focus that soon.

Other problem? My doing collaborative research on Arthur this summer might help me get into the Arthur senior sem next fall (even though I'd be a junior), which would make my life much easier senior year (as I'll be studying abroad that fall).

So it's looking more like the Arthur project is feasible. The other one would be really intense, and I think I'd need to get my feet wet to really do a good job. One really cool thing about that second idea I've been kicking around is the possibility of making it a sort of (almost) ecological/anthropological study. This is good especially if I decide to go to grad school for Anthropology.

I've also been nerding out hardcore about art lately. This is a really great artist, and I think that if I ever get a big back piece, I would want it to be in this style. Not the super creepy stuff, but ... that stylistic working.

Powershift is tomorrow! Ahh! So exciting! I've never been to something like this before, so I don't know quite how rockin' awesome it's going to be yet. But it should be pretty sweet. I don't know whether I'm insane for looking forward to a collective of 44 hours on a bus this weekend or not, but it's pretty exciting. Great people do awesome thing in confined spaces for prolonged amounts of time.

I should get to bed. Big day/weekend ahead of me.

Thundercats are GO!