A lot has happened since my last post! I received funding for a 1-year postdoc from the NSF, via the Computing Research Association’s CIFellows program. I’ll be at Northwestern University, in the Center for Technology and Social Behavior, starting in September. I had been waiting to post about this until the list of recipients was released at cifellows.org, but that hasn’t happened yet, and I received signed paperwork from Northwestern saying the funding had been processed so I guess it is more or less official.
I also finished a complete draft of my dissertation and shipped it, in advance of my defense which takes place on Friday August 28. Plus I found a place to live in Chicago, and am in the midst of packing for the move. And, I got my very first smartphone for my birthday — a BlackBerry Curve 8900. I can’t say it has changed my life, but I do really really like it. With all this stuff going on, I feel like I should say something wise and profound about change or new beginnings or something, but I have no idea what that might be. Mostly, I am just taking things one day at a time so it all doesn’t get too overwhelming. I am totally thrilled to have been given this fantastic opportunity for the coming year, and am going to do everything I can to make the most of it.
