Happy birthday, America! This was the first year that for the holiday, I’ve done absolutely nothing. Well, nothing celebratory anyway. I did do other stuff. Today was the continuation of yesterday’s conference, thankfully starting later than it did yesterday. The first part was great, it talked a lot about victims which was really fascinating. I missed most of the second half as I had an interview to conduct. I must say, I got a pretty good overview on Nepali newspapers, which helps me frame everything I’ve been looking at.
After my interview and a brief stop back in the conference to catch a little bit of Rhoderick Chalmers’s talk, I left with Dee to go to our meeting at Café Mitra. I had a meeting with one of our advisors, and was basically told to throw out all the research I’ve already done and start at a different point in time with a slightly different focus. I was also told that with interviews, I need to do some research before and come up with some in-depth questions. No shit, I’m not an idiot. I’m just getting so frustrated with getting my topics criticized (or ‘refined’) every week. I already lost the first two weeks, which means I’m that much further behind everyone in terms of this project. If I get it done in time it’ll be a miracle.
After that frustrating meeting I went with some people to Café Kaldi (where else?) to grab something snack-like before heading home. Even though I missed out on all the traditional 4th foods, I at least got some chicken fingers and French fries today. Oh, and a delicious chocolate soufflé.
Sadly, after getting home, my idea of relaxing was reading the ICRC report I got at the conference, written by Simon Robins. So far it’s really good. I also worked on my op-ed article. My goal is to get the draft done by Tuesday/Wednesday and then send it off for comments before I submit the final draft for publication. Hopefully I can get all that done before we go to Pokhara.
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