I’m on my way to Santa Fe for the applied anthropology conference. It has been a long winter and even longer 10-week term but it’s over and I’m giddy with excitement for the trip and because I”m drinking my second Americano of the morning. I had very fun social weekend with BFFs from Alaska (Shayna, Kevin, and Boy Child), attending dissertation celebrations (congrats Courtney!!), and a 40th birthday party. And I managed to write a mostly new conference paper for Santa Fe and work out in between gigs. My spirits are high. When I return from Santa Fe I plan to spend a few days in Portland with friends, shopping at used clothes stores and of course book and music stores. I will also coffee a lot, in cool urban cafes where I can work on my class for spring term: the Anthropology of Citizenship. I hope to write more over the next two weeks, before the onslaught of spring term.