A conversation with a student got me thinking about completing college in 3 years vs. 4 years. He was attempting to do this and was very stressed as his time was an incredibly precious commodity. Some of this oddly applies to me as a graduate student. The perks are money and time; college is ghastly [...]

The part of my experiments of organizing and restructuring things has been exploring new software. My latest discover has been a new word processing software, Scrivener. This software is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux OSs. When looking for software to ease dissertation writing, I stumbled upon Scrivener. So far, I really enjoy it as [...]

Backing up one’s computer is something that should just be. For a dissertation or thesis writer, it should be like breathing. I had only one scare with my master’s thesis (minor computer issues overall but it involved a trip to the Apple store), but it isn’t worth the scare. During my dissertation proposal writing class, [...]

Sometime during last semester, I thought my dissertation proposal class and I should continue working together in an informal support group. Basically, we can critique each other’s work, discuss stresses we have in writing, be supportive of one another, pass along resources, etc. In a program like mine, as lovely as it is in many [...]

For Johara’s March 11 show, which is a fundraiser for efforts against human trafficking in Nepal and India, Nepenthe who co-produced Raks Nativity and choreographed the meleya leff piece is re-staging the meleya leff piece. I’m going to be a part of the piece again, along with 4 others. If you are interested in attending, [...]

On February 4th from 11-4 PM, Amity of NH is hosting Outi of Cairo at Amity’s studio in Lebanon, NH. The topics are Egyptian technique and meleya leff. Registration is here. I’m pretty excited, because I haven’t been able to go to workshops as frequently as I like. Learning someone else’s meleya leff stylization is [...]

While I started off this vacation with a lot of ambition, I eventually scaled back to something more reasonable. More reasonable being: Get back into doing ballet regularly Start attending my Middle Eastern dance class with Najmat Clean and reorganize apartment Fix padding in shamadan Organize computers Complete dissertation proposal’s intro and lit review sections [...]

I spent some time tweaking the color scheme and header of my blog. It is a little brighter, little more pink, but I think enjoy it. Thoughts? Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookShare on FriendFeedshare via RedditShare with StumblersTumblr itTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postBookmark in BrowserTell a friend

Happy belated New Year! The intensity of this past semester has aided in me wanting to veg out and catch up on life. After a semester filled with short travel, it has been nice to stay at home and do the stay-cation thing, rather than go somewhere else. Because the semester had been so hectic, [...]