Perhaps I should not be surprised, now that I have secured my “informant” for my ethnographic class, who is a flamenco guitar performer and teacher from a rich and unique musical heritage, that I am finding myself formulating the research program around the same theme. Narrowing down to a particular case study for the purpose of studying much broader concepts is both exciting and nerve wrecking, especially in preparation for a grant, as the nature of ethnographic work is that you don’t know what you’ll get. Not only that, the nature of logging descriptive data, if not focused by something like a user-centered design approach, could become quite unruly. I have already found myself sliding into ethnomusicology mode during field research without realizing it. (At least, I think I am.) In any case, this course is providing me an opportunity to flex my ethographic research muscles from the perspective of information research, and work out exactly this kind of kinks before I dive into my thesis work in May, whatever form that might take. For now, meeting the SSHRC Grant deadline is the priority.