posterity

this is what i am currently doing in life and such:

i am working on a research project for the Violence Institute of New Jersey, under the auspices of the New Jersey State Parole Board, under a grant from someone else but i forget who right now. i'm collecting data from parolee day reporting centers. haven't actually collected any yet though, so i can't say much else about it.

i'm working for the criminal justice library (or possibly for a publisher) inputting abstracts (or possibly writing them) for the catalog. just for the money, because i was supposed to be working for the library like i did over the summer, but the budget ran out and they're required to give TA's a certain number of hours. if i work directly for the publisher apparently they pay me twice as much, so that would be nice. and i can probably work from home.

i'm also working on a research proposal to do a study of panhandlers in newark. we were going to do it this past summer but my research partner (is that the word?) got married. i'm going to try to use my research grant from last year that i never used, because the only other idea i had for that involved mass mailings, and i can't get behind that.

i'm teaching the same class i've been teaching for over a year. on policing. one night a week now, for the first time, and its going pretty well i'd say, but its only the second week. it helps to be taking a class on policing while teaching (i did that last fall too). not that i don't know the material or anything though, just its nice to talk about stuff in class with other PhD students and such before i get in the classroom, and also get some newer readings i can use. and so on.

and i'm taking three classes. two are global affairs and its strange to be in a new program now, and i still have no idea if i'm actually going to go for the degree, but if i don't then the last two weeks have been a waste (not to mention the 350 bucks or so i spent on books.) it's interesting, but on the other hand its a decent amount of work that i could simply not do. would certainly be nice to not have to deal with the commute to, so i could just take classes 4 or 5 nights. oh well, next semester maybe.

that is all.