Extreme navel-gazing?
I have been very lazy and had not kept up with posting here. The last few years saw me kind of trying -- but not too hard -- getting back into academia. Nope. Still unsuccessful in convincing a university to take me on. The writing is doing a bit better as I had been getting published in various academic journals, including some with quite impressive 'journal impact factor'. Healthwise I had been suffering a pain in my shoulder connected to my writing arm. Sometimes it hurts a lot and I cannot do a lot of things I used to do. A real 'bummer'! Two things of significance in the last three months: I am coming to an age where I could have been researching myself. Yes, I will soon qualify for retirement housing and I could have been one of my own research respondents. (I studied sheltered housing for the elderly for my PhD.) How's that for extreme 'navel-gazing' as some anthropologists are sometimes accused of doing? I am enjoying teaching computer sk