this week, I'm trying to take it easy and pick up the pieces of my life here in Yogya. Starting just over two weeks ago, I developed a messy ear infection, and then Windows died on my computer, rendering me deaf and laptop-less. Thankfully, the kind folks at Computa helped scavange all of my important image and text files.
I was in Manila for a mid-term Fulbright Southeast Asia researchers conference from Wednesday night, the 17th, through Saturday morning, the 20th. I was feeling exhausted and overwhelmed about preparing a presentation without a computer or access to my digital files with weird pressure and pulsing noises in the right hemisphere of my head. My presentation went fine -- it was a bit scattered, but I was able to open my flashdisk on a friend's laptop and arrange some images to take attention away from my circuitous and confusing language.
The three days were filled by the conference and an absurd amount of eating at Heat, the hedonist restaurant in the hotel.
I wish I had more time to see some of Manila, but I am thankful that the trip at least inspired some interest within me.
22 March 2010
04 March 2010
Day trip and juicy ear
I've been living in haze for the past few days, as the right side of my head feels swollen with an ear infection. It isn't visibly noticeable, but the pulsing, fuzzy pressure in the right hemisphere has off-set my balance and compromised my already-troubled hearing, so understanding a foreign language has become doubly-challenging.
Thankfully, I brought medicated ear drops with me, so I've already started the juicy, humbling, healing process.
In other news, I received notification from Irvine's anthropology department that I've been admitted with five years of funding: a combination of a tuition fellowship and a teaching-assistantship to cover my stipend and health insurance. YES. Health insurance! It is an amazing privilege to have the opportunity to continue my studies with the guarantee of health care.
Additionally, on Sunday, I joined some of my peers and my sponsor on a trip to visit my sponsor's family in the rural northeastern part of Central Java -- a town called Purwodadi.
It included a stop at a bizarre, belching mud pit. wooo.
Thankfully, I brought medicated ear drops with me, so I've already started the juicy, humbling, healing process.
In other news, I received notification from Irvine's anthropology department that I've been admitted with five years of funding: a combination of a tuition fellowship and a teaching-assistantship to cover my stipend and health insurance. YES. Health insurance! It is an amazing privilege to have the opportunity to continue my studies with the guarantee of health care.
Additionally, on Sunday, I joined some of my peers and my sponsor on a trip to visit my sponsor's family in the rural northeastern part of Central Java -- a town called Purwodadi.
It included a stop at a bizarre, belching mud pit. wooo.
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