Back to it

I am sure that by this point most of the people whom were following this blog have now moved on. And I don't blame them. This summer brought a lot of new adventure and demands into my life and I wasn't able to make the commitment to keep up two blogs. With that being said, this one is back. After taking a much needed break from technology and everything anthroplogical, I am back to needing a venue for writing and expressing myself in the most anonymous way possible.

So everything starts back today. Classes resume (6 hours of class without a break to be exact) and I am diving head first back into my work from Uganda. While the much needed break from my research and research partner are over, I am ready to get back to the grind. This semesters classes are already proving to be a challenge with the amount of reading that I know lies in store and the demands of my graduate assistantship. I have to admit that I am having extremely mixed feelings about getting back to it.

This summer allowed for a plethora of personal and professional exploration for me and led me to make some rather big decisions. The most substantial of which was deciding to work in the field after getting my masters versus heading straight into a Ph.D. program. While I deliberated over this for some time it was the secondary factors that were more of the deciding moment for me rather than pure academic ones. Spending another couple of years here in Memphis and being able to give back to the city that has given me so much is something that I think is necessary. Adding to that I hope that I am able to apply my interest and work that I did in Uganda to the population here in Memphis for both philanthropic and academic purposes.

Regardless, this semester will be a challenge and an adventure and while I am hesitant to get really excited, I am curious about what this next year will bring.

I will be blogging on the same randomness and often ranting that is usual in hopes that someone out there may actually find it interesting.

Cheers!!!