Ouch

Unfortunately I was not in class today. I had a dr appt because I got bit by a spider, on my ass. Damn thing swelled up like an orange... scary stuff.. I think I'm okay now ha...

Well yesterday I did end up going home and hanging out with the boys. I only got one consent form back, the other boys "totally forgot" so we'll work on that. I just sat on the floor for about an hour and 10 minutes and they went through various topics. I helped them along sometimes, prompting with questions. For the most part it was good. My brother was the one who tried to make it weird. If there was a split second of silence he'd get nervous and go "okayWELL whatever!" there was no need for that haha. I told them next time if they wanted to we could go somewhere, so they are thinking about that. Was such a nice day yesterday I wanted to go walk through the marshlands in tuckerton to see the old lenape shell mound haha, but I didn't think they would be interested. However, maybe they would be? haha I'll have to check.

I am finding it hard to completely document everything. It was so informal yesterday I would have ruined the mood by whipping out my notebook ya know? I don't know exactly how to go about that... I also wasn't sure if it was Okay to secretly turn on the tape recorder haha....
That's about it for now...

Camera Obscura - If Looks Could Kill

[via FoxyTunes / Camera Obscura]

:D

Gah!

Teenagers are frustrating... I am not sure if my brother really understands the importance of this project but on Friday he blew me off. He texted me early in the AM and asked me if I was stilling driving up. And I said, I wasn't sure because of the snow but most likely later. He replied with "uGH! Marelen wants to come over" And he asked me if I could possibly reschedule my hang out time, then he went on to tell me that Paul couldn't get a ride and Steve was busy. So I wasn't going to MAKE THEM hang out with me, so I let it go. I asked if Monday would be good and Kyle Mccormick agreed but the others are MIA. As a matter of fact, Saturday night I chatted with Kyle Mccormick on AIM for almost 2 hours. It's interesting because Kyle Mccormick was in all the same basic skills, learning strategies, and resource room classes as my brother but Mccormick uses little internet lingo and even uses periods and commas sometimes. Maybe I am just used to talking to my brother where it is very difficult to read what he is writing. Also, Mccormicks ideas are more mature than the other kids...

I was thinking about the time I went to the show with the boys and they were all cracking jokes about Mccormick saying hes slow and doesn't get jokes. But I think it's because Mccormick doesn't think anything the other boys do is funny. I never knew this about him at all. He doesn't drink or smoke, either. He tries to get people to stop ... I was very impressed with our conversation... I'll post a little:

parabolove (11:28:51 PM): yeah i mean, so many people, especially college level focus their lives on partying... how is it in highschool, people do it a lot?
mobgrip 98 (11:29:45 PM): ya
mobgrip 98 (11:30:15 PM): like im there but not drinking i no, when im older im ganna be the kid whos driving them home, bc ill be sobor

mobgrip 98 (11:36:11 PM): i think people act likethey do to be cool, idk y lol, i feel cool 4 not drinking or doing drugs honestly haha

So I've been thinking more and more about what I am going to focus the sections on and it's still tough to decide because I don't have too much to go on right now. But I think something with rebellion, the kids lifestyles and stuff... ehhh, it's still hard to decides. Whether I meet with the boys tonight or not I am going to distribute some questions to make sure they are doing something in those journals...

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I love Lata : )

Ajeeb Dastan hai - Indian Bollywood Song English Translation

[via FoxyTunes / Lata Mangeshkar]

Most suiting....

Nada Surf - Popular (Video)

[via FoxyTunes / Nada Surf]

I was driving home the other night and heard this on the radio haha
Well, this Friday I scheduled my first real hang out with the informants. I am not sure what we will do but I think I'll gather up some questions in my mind so I am prepared in case there's some down time. Otherwise I just want to listen. Maybe we will go out for pizza... mmmm I am hungry...

YESSS

My brother, 2/15 @ 8:24

no values82: steve said that he is exctied to do this for you
no values82: bc he said finally some 1 isnt pointin the finger at us and sayin ur wrong ur wrong and some 1 actually wants to know why we think that and stuff

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Now playing: belle and sebastian - song for sunshine
via FoxyTunes


check out that internet lingo/type/language : )

Class 2/14

Class was entertaining today... I also wonder why everyone decided to not show up- do people seriously celebrate V-day to the extent that they need to skip class? hah...
Well...

It's virtually impossible to decide on which youtube videos I feel like posting, but for everyone's listening pleasure (or just mine):

Charlie Parker All Stars ' My little suede shoes'

[via FoxyTunes / Charlie Parker]

I want foxy tunes...

so, i got them... : ) look - the beatles yeeahh

So I tried to meet with my informants today and everyone was "busy" apparently two of them have karate practice- who knew? We'll see how this Saturday goes though...

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Now playing: The Beatles - Long, Long, Long
via FoxyTunes

Oh!

Also I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for tape/digital voice recorders... I am living off loans basically so nothing too pricey, but just something that will work (what else could I ask for?ha).... Let me know if anyone has suggestions...

Ideas

So I've been sitting around this week thinking about how exactly I am going to get this field work started. My brother and his friends are all game for it but I didn't want to just show up randomly without a plan. So, as luck would have it, my brother wants to see a show in Manchester along with his buddies. I am going to meet up with his friends at the show and probably just observe. I am familiar with these settings and have attended some with my brother, but never focused directly on what HE and his friends are doing, saying, feeling, you know what core values really lie beneath these shows (brotherhood, unity, etc) Plus I like two of the bands... : )

I am driving them home and plan on discussing the details further- then giving them all a consent form to read over and sign. I am going to encourage them to talk about it with their parents.

I am also developing various ways for me to get what I want out these boys who are so dang rebellious, and most likely not going to share inner secrets with me. (although it's a possibility, eh) I was thinking about distributing journals to them. I am DEFINITELY not going to call them journals but rather "A Day in the Life of..." And I haven't exactly fine tuned it, but was considering asking them to write at least twice a week about their daily events or just how their week is going- school, girls, etc. Anything extra crappy or really great happening?
Then once a week I was thinking about either e-mailing them or giving them a sheet of paper with one to three questions on it, obviously each week getting more into personal details, so they have a guideline to go on for that week.

In theory this sounds, to me, pretty damn good. My brother will do it but I don't want to impose or give these boys "homework".

I also was considering having them each update the myspace every other week.

And I think that is about it...

Also, to Professor R- the adolescent world paper that I handed in did not have separate paragraphs because my google docs kept messing it up, I forgot to note that on the paper- But I do know how to indent! Haha