Maybe this whole 'one post a week' requirement would be easier if I didn't leave it until the very last moment, and decided to write it when I actually had something to say. But I shouldn't kid myself, I doubt I'll take the initiative and do that. Not too much happened lately that I feel is worthy of sharing, or that I want to share. Hmm... I suppose the fact that I'm having trouble doing my synthesis paper is problematic, and maybe I might find somebody in the same position and I won't feel so behind.

                I started out wanting to do the paper on the subculture of drug addicts or heroin users because I thought it could wind up being interesting if I narrowed in on something specific enough. Drug addiction has always interested me, a sort of taboo on society, and something horribly devastating to many lives. Unfortunately after some digging I kept running into dead ends and wound up with an answer along the lines of "we can't help you, as this is too sensitive of a topic". I wanted to find a few people that wouldn't mind being interviewed, maybe at a halfway house or a in-patient facility, but in order to set anything up like that it seemed like I would be waiting a long while. So I finally decided to just change my topic.

                For the field site paper, I went to an underground punk rock concert and found some pretty crazy things and I thought an extension off of this might make for a good paper. My thought was to compare this radical group of musicians to another group that is contrasting. Lucky for me, I have quite a few musically inclined friends that tour and play locally and can most of the time get me into whatever show I want. One of these friends is into jazz and folky music and all of the bands he's in are focused on nature and more of a new age hippy sort of culture. Comparing this to the punk rock underground would be interesting I think since they are so different, but still have that deep connection to music. For a twist I was thinking about getting the drummer from a punk band and the other folky friend and doing an interview with both of them. Hmm... many cool ways to go with this, but I'd better get a move on, especially since I haven't really started an annotated bib yet! Gahhhh!