putting the 'social' back in 'social anthropology'

This will strike the graduate students among you as particularly funny, I think.

I was just reflecting -- with a certain amoung of unreflective guilt -- on the amount of socializing I've been doing lately. My life seems peppered with lunches, braais, and coffee dates. Friday night I was out at a pub. Saturday night I was braaing. Wednesday night I hope to be back at that pub for trivia night. What kind of research is this?

Of course, the untold story is the degree to which these 'social' engagements are also fodder for my ethnographic sensibilities, if not my ethnography per se.

The irony of my pre-field social anthropology education is how accustomed I became to an anti-social existence. But really! -- oughtn't I be slaving away in the library?