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

Personal details

Today's class, from what I could observe after unfortunately coming in late, offered a very insightful view of fellow classmates. Things I never would have guessed about these people. Most if not all, that I can remember, appear to be such happy caring and warm people- experiences such as those really do make a person stronger. I never like to tell other people, let alone an entire class and a professor, about my personal problems/issues/bad memories... I don't even know how people can feel comfortable doing that!
It was also interesting to hear Jasmina speak- it brought back some painful memories for me. I dated a boy, who was born in India, for nearly 3 years. We had to hide our relationship from his parents because they hated the idea of a white daughter in law, they tried to keep my ex boyfriend under their control at all times, and surprisingly enough they allowed the younger sister more freedom. It ended disastrously, but I am in a much better time in my life currently. Hearing Jasmina talk about her father and mother was just too much a reminder of such a long drawn out, emotional time in my life... And that's about as personal as I will get.

As far as informants and things of that nature goes- my brother tried to get me to buy him and his buddies 4 tickets to see "Anti-Flag" because it would be "really coool and you could like document what we say and how we dance. O U could even tape us???" My brother and his friends are excited... But I will not be shelling out over 100 dollars for that!