July 14, 2005 I had a very productive day of research, although I don’t have much to show for it. I did a little work on what resources the library has on Leland Stanford and Chinese immigrants – the library has a 120+ reel collection of the Collis Huntington papers, the man who owned the [...]
July 13, 2005 Research – I started at 9AM, had a meeting with Professor Gordon at 11am, and then had the SRC luncheon at 12:30pm. Professor Gordon came to speak and I enjoyed hearing about his academic career – from teaching at community college to the process of writing one of his books. I made [...]
July 12, 2005 I slept in and first met with Carolyn to talk about our SIC course for the fall. Now that we’ve got the ball rolling again, hopefully we’ll be able to finish up a syllabus and be set for the Fall. Teaching a course will be fun! I did more microfilm research until [...]
July 11, 2005 Research again. I watched Saved! and a few episodes of SATC, Season 2 with Jenny.
July 10, 2005 I was at Berkeley all day for an ACT (Asian American Community Training) working group meeting. It was great seeing Srida, Peter, Kevin, and Anh. We discussed the future of ACT and it sounds like it’s going to be a really cool collaboration and laying the groundwork for future trainings is really [...]