I am presenting a paper at this year's American Sociological Association (ASA) meeting.
-yay!!!
My travel grant application was rejected.
-booo!!!!!!!1!!!
My department funds the trip up to $400.
-yay!!!!!!!!!
My plane ticket costs $337; my share of the hotel is $250. Even if I managed to make it through the entire trip without paying for a single meal, I am still already $187 short.
-booo!!!!!!!1!!!
BUT THIS CASH-STRAPPED GRAD STUDENT IS NOT GIVING UP QUITE THAT EASILY!
As such, I bring you: a Wicked Anomie fundraiser.
-yay!!!!!!!!!
That's right, folks. I am getting all entrepreneurial on your asses. I have opened up an Etsy store, called Wicked Nerdcraft by Anomie. It currently includes variations on my blind reviewer voodoo dolls. I have plans to add more later. Muahahahahaha!!!! For those of you who read this via some remote means (feedreader, facebook, etc), do go check out the blog. I have added a mini Etsy store with my stuff and replaced my list of books to read with a nifty Amazon.com ferris wheel of books. It even spins. So cool.
Act today. Buy my nerdcrafts. You can make a difference in this grad student's life. Thank you for your support.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
ASA Fundraiser
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hey anomie - i was on the committee that rejected your travel grant (if you applied through the student forum). i'm really sorry about that. making those $$ decisions sucked; there were some obvious ones not to fund (folks who told us their department was only giving them $1200 for the meeting and could we fund $200 more) but the rest are just a crapshoot. i'm considering moving that we go to a random lottery, like the psa. what do you think?
I find voodoo dolls scary but volunteer to feed you out of my new and exciting travel fund one night while at the meetings...
That's hilarious. I wish I had thought of it myself. I dropped over 1000 dollars yesterday for academic related travel. This is NUTS. I guess it really brings home how much you have to try to negotiate an academic development budget when you get that first job.
@lvlmnly- Nah, the grant I applied for was through my university. After three years of getting rejected for the ASA travel grant, I stopped applying. I was told it was on a point system based on how much you were doing at the conference. However, if there are numerous equally good candidates, it seems like a lottery would be good. It would ensure that favoritism or more abstract, personal decisions didn't get considered (Well, ALL these people are equally qualified, but this one is my friend, this one is from a good school, this one is doing identity research like me, etc).
@newsocprof: I am not at all adverse to being fed :D . Plus, I'm super excited to meet some of the newer bloggers (and more established ones that I didn't meet last year). I was at last year's blogger gathering, but I was new and didn't talk to as many people as I might have otherwise.
@mybackstage: "negotiate an academic budget"--I'd make fun of how brightly your symbolic interactionist tendencies are shining through in that statement if I weren't standing inside this glass house at the moment ;) .
I almost have tears rolling down my face. Oh joy.
God, I hope that some of the law profs with disposable income come through for you on my blog. I really wish I could help out, but I am not going to ASA this year for budgetary reasons either! Conferences totally are too expensive. I actually pack bread and a jar of peanut butter and eat as much of the conference food as I can and order diet cokes at the bar at the happy hour.
Damn. With all the play this is getting, you'll need to drop out of grad school to keep up with demand.
@ Belle Lettre: Yeah, the four of us who are cramming into a single hotel room have roomed together before, and we have always packed food. In fact, half my travel bag is usually food. Then I usually get a few free meals from profs while there.
I totally plan to make a concerted effort to treat at least one grad student to a meal at every conference once I am a prof.
@mybackstage: Somehow I think a life making voodoo dolls would be somewhat less rewarding than a life in academia :) . But I do hope to make enough to fund my trip.
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