Wi-Fi

Wow, it's really amazing how much I was taking for granted having wi-fi access. I'll have to apologize to everyone reading this blog...I've moved from my hotel in zone 1 to be closer to the office where I've been doing most of my work recently and there is no internet access where I'm staying now. So while it is not meant to be an excuse, there is a reason as to why you haven't read anything recently. My goal tomorrow will be to write something on Word so I can post it when I do have internet access (we'll see how that works out). Not much to tell, otherwise. Went to Xela this past weekend with a friend and had a relaxing two days just hanging out with friends. Nothing too terribly adventurous (well, except maybe the harrowing bus ride which may be the subject of my next post). Now I'm back in the city working on coding newspaper articles. I guess I didn't post about this, but I'm working on this great project with an NGO (that's "non-governmental organization" for those not versed in political jargon) here that fits in very nicely with my dissertation project. We're coding news articles on crime just like I am doing for my dissertation, but instead of focusing on the six months before elections we're looking at the recent security crisis here in Guatemala. I wrote about the security problem in a past post (the increase of murders of bus drivers, etc.). For this project we are interested in seeing how the different newspapers covered the murders and what kind of political discourse was published, who was quoted, who said what when, etc. It's pretty interesting (although also quite depressing). Ok, back to work...