So I've said yes to writing an article for a special issue of a fairly big journal, but most of the other contributors are sociologists or social anthropologists. I think they're expecting the paper to be a bit more about theory than I really want it to be--but the really interesting part is that I have properly discovered Bruno Latour for the first time. I knew that his work existed, but not that it applied to me. However, it's now evident that I've been using a lot of concepts that are important in actor-network theory (and especially blackboxing) in relation to highly technical processes of colonial high modernism without realizing that's what they were, or at least that those particular ideas of nodes, networks, interfaces, and the transparency of functioning were part of some other body of information besides the ones I know from African history of colonialism specifically. It's interesting, but I'm going down the rabbit hole when the other rabbits all want to go the other direction. They want it in September. This ought to be interesting.

In less than a month, I begin my research trip overseas. Whee! I have no idea what to expect anymore. It's been almost two decades since I really did research in Europe. Where did the time go? I'm not even that old!