Preeee-sen-ta-tion time, come on!

0.5 hours presenting, 4 hours presentation prep, 2.5 hours seminar, 1 hour seminar prep, 1 hour meeting, page count = 143

This week's monitor is Val Wang, in Princeton. Val is a writer. She is currently participating in her second National Novel Writing Month (http://www.nanowrimo.org/). Welcome, Val!

Today's stats include 3 hours of work I did over the weekend, in preparation for my presentation at my department's Latin America research seminar this evening. The presentation went well; I had good materials, and they generated a fair amount of discussion. I might have focused my presentation a little differently to get more feedback, as we got a little hung up on some of the newer material, but it was helpful to see how the new stuff played. And it became ever more clear that policing and security are very timely topics in Latin America, as a number of colleagues who work in Brazil had stories to share about the relationships between army and police there. Afterwards, I met with one of my advisors, and we had a constructive conversation.

I've extended my trip by a day to be able to meet with two other of my committee members tomorrow. So, one more day of working from the West Coast, and it's back home to New York.