music to my ears

The four sweetest words in the world:

You've got real data.

This from another anthropologist, no less, who's been around in this business long enough to know.

I have survived my first experience of giving a presentation based on my own data. I took questions from the audience and everything. I even elaborated on why I had dragged Foucault into the picture. It's all downhill from here, hahaha...