Spencer ex San Diego: Page 4 of 7
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Untold stories
[I don't poetry much.]
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Sleep
So for no particular reason, my sleep schedule has been a little messed up lately. I won't really be able to sleep until 2 or 2:30am, and then I'll get up around 10. So I mean I'm getting normal amounts of sleep, it's just not at the usual time. This is something of a self-perpetuating cycle - if you get up at 10am, you're not going to be particularly tired at 11pm or whenever normal people go to sleep, so you stay up later, which causes you to sleep in longer, and the cycle repeats itself the next day.
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Pizza
Today I had pizza with a friend who I haven't seen for a long time.
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Excitement
Do you ever get way too excited about something that may not actually be happening, and you keep telling yourself not to get way too excited, but you do it anyway because you can't help yourself, and you're at once bracing yourself for extreme disappointment and enjoying the ride?
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Transcribing, part deux
So on the last interview I was transcribing, there were only three voices; one was mine and the other two were easily distinguishable (although the one dude didn't articulate very well and began to piss me off by the end). Today I finished cleaning up the recordings of the other interviews (I decided to straight-up remove all the terrible putting-the-recorder-down noises this time, instead of passing them through a hard limiter, and I like the outcome a lot better) and started transcribing the next one.
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Transcribing
So I have entered into a tedious, tedious phase of my dissertation research: I have something like nine or ten hours of focus group interview and classroom observation data that currently only exists as audiorecordings, and I need to turn it into text. The most direct way to do this is to manually transcribe it: listen to it all and type it in as I listen. (In extremely related news, if anyone knows of decent automatic transcription software for Mac OS X that is either free or inexpensive (I have no budget for this sort of thing), they should definitely tell me what it is called.)
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Haircut
Back to blogging after a conference hiatus.
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Sneaky
(I'm literally writing this just for Alex and am not particularly invested in this post. :P )
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Instant profane ninja
So here I am, taking the trash out. I have the trash bag in one hand and the recycle bin in the other. I am cheerfully walking along when suddenly spider web across my forehead.
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It's easy to make good food
No, I'm serious. Look at my dinner: