{"id":48,"date":"2004-03-02T01:17:39","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T08:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2004-03-02T01:17:39","modified_gmt":"2004-03-02T08:17:39","slug":"work-together-keep-on-working-for-africa-cheikh-anta-diop-kwame-nkrumah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/02\/work-together-keep-on-working-for-africa-cheikh-anta-diop-kwame-nkrumah\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Work Together \/ Keep on Working \/ For Africa \/ Cheikh Anta Diop \/ Kwame Nkrumah&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No further news from the grad school front. <\/p>\n<p>In other randomness, though, I ran into David P. Jacob on campus today walking out of Barrows Hall. He was dealing with some bureaucratic stuff about graduating, even though he&#8217;s not actually walking (he&#8217;ll be in Germany). He, and his Persian girlfriend Maryam and I had lunch at Ruen Pair, a great Thai restaurant in Albany. It&#8217;s always good to run into old friends.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve finally finished my rough Farsi translation of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranian.com\/Diaspora\/2003\/November\/Half\/index.html\">Iranian.com article<\/a>. Jeez this thing took awhile. I&#8217;m supposed to use the translation for my oral presentation in Farsi class on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is election day, so y&#8217;all better go vote. I&#8217;m voting for Edwards. In addition, I&#8217;m ditching Econ (for the second lecture in a row) in favor of attending a concert by Cake in Sacramento with Krishna. If I was really a conscientious student, I would spend that time on my thesis instead. Hmmm\u00c9maybe I&#8217;ll ditch J298 and use that time to work on my thesis instead. Either way, I&#8217;ll have to spend the bulk of Wednesday cranking out my third chapter. I&#8217;m already at 55 pages of text. <\/p>\n<p>Busy. Too busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No further news from the grad school front. In other randomness, though, I ran into David P. Jacob on campus today walking out of Barrows Hall. He was dealing with some bureaucratic stuff about graduating, even though he&#8217;s not actually walking (he&#8217;ll be in Germany). He, and his Persian girlfriend Maryam and I had lunch at Ruen Pair, a great Thai restaurant in Albany. It&#8217;s always good to run into old friends. I&#8217;ve finally finished my rough Farsi translation of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-general","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}