I think my Race and Ethnicity paper is done - pending revisions. My personal editor has just finished reading it and said it was quite good and needed little editing. That's good news. I can't believe I wrote 27 pages. What is really crazy is that I could've written sooo much more!! The other day, I heard one of my colleagues mention that his Master's thesis was 65 pages and I thought, "Woah! That is absurd." But, as I was writing this term paper, I realized that it really wouldn't be that hard to write 65 pages about something that you are interested and invested in. I just hope MV likes my race paper. After much reading and thinking, I got a fuller grasp on what he wanted me to do in terms of situating the transracial adoption issue in the assimilation literature. I hope he feels like I did what he wanted.

Something random: As I was talking on the phone this afternoon with someone some of you may know as "Uhle", we got to talking about Jeremy Bentham and how is body is preserved at the London School of Economics. Then, I told him about the cemetery we saw in New Orleans where Mahalia Jackson's body is preserve and displayed in a glass casket. We decided that I should do a study: "The Sociology of People Who Go Around and Look at Dead People for Fun." Uhle questioned whether the word "fun" can be used in an academic title and I quipped about how Sociology lends itself well to stupid topics like this. But, in all actuality, the preservation of the dead is probably a very rich topic, that could yield interesting information about various societies in various times and places. I mean, need I say more than the word "mummies"???

All things considered, I don't fancy looking at dead people - not even at funerals. So, I don't see why those at The London School would want to wheel Bentham out for meetings - or why fans would want to look at Ms. Jackson through a glass casket. The whole thing is quite creepy to me.

That said, I think I will go to bed now. There is my random sociology for the night. Satisfied??