On Raspberries and Excitement

So since December, I have been wanting to do undergraduate research with a professor. The honors college has this cool program called the Undergraduate Research Fellowship program that basically allows for students to do research with professors and get paid! You work on research that the professor is doing, so you aren't required to generate your own thesis or anything. Well this afternoon I figured I should probably get on that. One of the professors in the Honors College gave me some names of people to contact (I want to do research with Africa, and because Tech still doesn't have an African studies department or faculty with the exception of Ambassador Nagy, who is not doing research at this time, we had to brainstorm and look for people might have some obscure interest in Africa). So I e-mailed, and then went and gardened. Today I got to tackle the raspberry bush. It is so pretty in spring. I was cutting away the dead stalks, but the living stalks had these brilliant green leaves on them. I guess vibrant is maybe the right word. And they were small. It amazes me how many beautiful things there are in Lubbock.
But getting back to the URF. So I did my gardening, came back, checked the e-mail, and one of the professors had already e-mailed me back. And she is interested in me working with her! This is a professor I have had before, actually, for Modern British Literature. AND the best part is, she's doing research on Africa! Her specialty is feminist and queer movements in the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia! BAH! I'm so excited! AND if I do not get an internship this summer, I could stay in Lubbock (bleh) and do research with her! And possibly get paid!
BAH!