It's been quite a time here lately. As usual, school is keeping me pretty busy! Rather than posting on my blog, I really should be working on a paper. (Paper 3 of 8... gulp.) I am liking my classes this semester, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel a little incompetent about once every class period... phew. Working hard for sure.
I'm excited about a research project I wiggled my way into. The L. Tom Perry Special Collections here at BYU has recently acquired a set of letters passed between a West Virginia family during the Civil War. Brothers Burgess, Albert, George, and Gavin write to a sister, Mary, about their experiences on both sides of the war. (Two are Confederates, two are Unionists.) They keep the letters in "the vault" (I don't really know what "the vault" is, but that's what they keep telling me) so I can only access them at certain times on certain days...but it's rather exciting. I'm going to be doing a little bit of transcription and trying to fit this family into the larger scene of divided Civil War families as a case study.
ANYWAY, other than that I'm spending my days outside of the testing center (thank goodness) and inside of my apartment, huddling from the cold and type-type-typing away at many papers.
Which reminds me. It's been a record-breaking cold winter and I am going to SCREAM if it lasts any longer! Groundhog day came with great anticipation and I was happy enough with Punxatawnie Phil to kiss him. And when you're desperate enough for sunshine to kiss a rodent...well. 'Nuff said. (I'm trying not to think about the fact that he lives in Punxatawnie and not Provo...)
Life goes on.
