This morning I did my oral defense of my thesis. It went extraordinarily well. Gradewise, I got an A on it, and in the writeup that went along with my official grade my faculty advisor called it "a theoretical, historical, and ethnographic masterpiece" which kind of bowled me over big time because if there's one thing he's not given to, it's ( Read more... )

Hello, LJ. I owe so many comments from previous posts and so many emails, and I swear to the fandom deities, I will catch up with them soon, but JFC, this semester has officially kicked my ass ( Read more... )

Hello, fandom, Femme says tiredly ( Read more... )

...but final paper season has begun. Behold the stack of research to be done today for paper #1 on Christian Wicca and the Divine Feminine. \0/


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So I just turned in a 7-page thealogical examination of the Wiccan Goddess as Divine Feminine based on the work of the Farrars and Starhawk for my class on alternative American religious traditions. \0 ( Read more... )

I am four days into my much-longed-for spring break and for four days I have been lying on the couch, sick and surrounded by cats and boxes of Kleenex, goddammit. This is kind the story of my life right now. On the positive side, I think I'm on the mend. And I've spent the past few days watching Sister Wives (and toying with a possible thesis idea ( Read more... )

Foreskin paper is DONE. In honor of it, I give you the paragraph I wrote on Agnes Blannbekin. (Sans the 7 citations because those just don't fucking work on LJ/DW without coding and after four days of slogging through this paper--which has 61 footnotes in 18 pages, JFC, that might be excessive--I'm too damned tired to do that.)

( In which foreskin devotion is remarkably like fellatio... )

Two papers turned in, three more to go before the end of the weekend. Fifteen to twenty pages on Jesus's foreskin, twenty pages on creativity and mindfulness for my Buddhism class, and five pages on the recent vote against women bishops in the CofE ( Read more... )

This is how my finals period has started: with me just now finishing an end-of-term paper that was due last week. On the positive side, it was on Marcella Althaus-Reid, who is now officially my favorite crazy-but-sex-positive queer/liberation theologian who writes about Christianity as fetishism. Awesome ( Read more... )

I am sitting here eating scrumptious homemade cream cheese and pecan gluten-free brownies because I have the best girlfriend in the world. Nom nom nom.

Anyway! Last week of classes in the Semester From Hell! \0/ Thank you, God.

And then I have two torturous weeks of Final Paper Writing. UGH. Although I do get to write one paper on the Holy ( Read more... )