Getting ready

It's now only two weeks until I'm in the air on my way to Indonesia. Two big events: I turned in the manuscript of my book Virtually Human: An Anthropologist in Second Life yesterday. I can't believe I did it that quickly! I'm very excited about the book, I think I did a good job with it, and hopefully the reviews will be positive and the project can move forward quickly. The second piece of news is that GAYa Nusantara, an organization I've worked with in Surabaya (Indonesia) since 1992 has asked me to be on their new Board of Directors. I'm honored to accept and to do all I can to support their wonderful work. I plan on getting back to Surabaya as part of this research project on HIV/AIDS, probably in summer 2008.