I'm it, and now you are

I read several fundraising blogs and a couple of them (here and here) posted about the following meme. I am going to edit it somewhat, mainly because I do not have five blogging friends, but if you happen to read this and want to play along, feel free to do so.

1. Pick up the nearest book.


2. Open to page 123.


3. Find the fifth sentence.


4. Post the next three sentences.


5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.

Since the computer is in the computer room and not by the bed where my "for fun" reads are, the closest book to me right now is Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry, 2nd ed. by Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln. (I am in grad school - what can I say?! On a side note, Lincoln was my professor's professor. Almost famous, huh?)

Page 123 is in the chapter entitled: "Performance Ethnography: A Brief History and Some Advice" and the three sentences are:

"It was approximately 120 pages long, representing 6 hours of audiotaped conversation. I needed to produce a script that would take 30 minutes to perform (the time allotted to us at the Blandin conference); as it turned out, this meant the script was 10 1/2 pages long--only a 'small portion of the total set of fieldnotes.'
The St. Cloud workshop was organized by Barb Thomes, who had participated in a 1992 workshop."

Come on folks, surely you can do better than that?