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December 21, 2004
Missing Summer in Portland
Today, I took the light rail in to campus. I was meeting a colleague on the East Bank--we're planning a symposium on Innovation in Developing Nations (stay tuned for more on that!), and we met for lunch to discuss plans for the symposium. I got off at Cedar-Riverside and walked the four blocks to the restaurant. On the way there, I swear, I almost fell at least twice! I hate the ice more than anything, I think. I can't help wondering during times like that whatever possessed me to move to this cold climate? It's probably 45 and raining in Portland right now.
On the other hand, I have some fantastic projects in the works. I just finished an ethnography project on former students in the Commanding English program and that turned out well. I'll be submitting some form of it for publication in an upcoming monograph by the Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy. And, we got the feedback on our book chapter back from the external reviewer--she really liked our chapter! So, I have a lot of good things going. I probably shouldn't even complain about the weather.
Posted by chri1010 at December 21, 2004 4:53 PM