Welcome!

I've decided that it's time for another blog, since I doubt my family really wants to hear about all the details of my musings related to my sociology studies, and I'm certain my colleagues won't want all the family stories!

Given my need to verbalize in order to figure out what I'm thinking, I figured I'd go ahead and blog thoughts and questions and reading responses. Please feel free to comment, even to challenge my thoughts. I'm just getting started in this PhD process, and have lots to learn. Getting other people's ideas can only help. I'll leave this set up with automatic posting unless I have trouble with spamming, in which case I'll switch to moderating.

I will be sorting posts by the classes I'm taking and teaching. This semester I'm a teaching assistant for Sociology 100-the basic introductory course, and I'm taking Socy 601-Statistics I (basic Social Science statistical methods-one of the courses that I was looking for when I decided to go the whole way and do the PhD program rather than just taking a "few" classes), 642-Sociology of Mental Health and Illness (where do I fit on that scale???), and 620-Classical Theory.