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forward-looking:
i got my wiscon schedule.
Gadgets: Then, Now and When - Cyberpunk and steampunk are alluring gadget-heavy genres: what roles do gadgets and their inventors play in characterization and world-building? What gadgets exist that we never dreamt we'd see, and which do we think we may see within our lifetimes? What are the fictional gadgets we wish really existed? Which real gadgets can't we live without, and which do we take for granted? (raz0rgirl proposed this one.
Robots from the future (and the past) - Man-made beings have been a favorite science fiction theme since Frankenstein. In the reimagined Battlestar Galactica and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, earlier representations of robots and cyborgs are updated for the twenty-first century, and they frequently appear as female figures. As robot apocalypse narratives shift focus from oversized metal horrors to sympathetic and/or devious human simulacra linked by wireless networks, what anxieties about the way we understand the human are being worked through in these shows and other cyborg-centric futures? What histories and (science) fictions do they invoke? And what do these narratives signify when it comes to gender, race, and class? (i believe this was ms futuransky's proposal)
Adapt, Revise, Revisit: When is a Copy Not the Source? - What constitutes an adaptation, and how is that different from a remake? At what point is something new created? Where within the tradition of reinterpretation do new visionings break away from their predecessors as independent works? What role does viewer or reader expectation play? Why does a new work keep the same name as the previous iteration if they are otherwise very different? How much does capitalism play a role when a "property" is owned by a corporation? We'll look at recent film and television remakes, as well as plays, novels, short stories, comics, and other works that have been adapted into new formats, to consider these questions. (raz0rgirl and i co-wrote this one, and i'm moderating.)
and my paper! appears to be part of a presentation called Technological and Supernatural Identity Construction. possibly. i mean, i can't really read that part, but maybe. my abstract:Reflected Self, Refracted Identities: The Meanings Of Multiplicity - Speculative fiction allows for duplication of the self by faithfully copying the body, allowing multiple iterations of a character to interact and potentially enter into competition with each other. The duplication trope reflects enduring interest in issues of identity, validity of experience, and what it means to be unique. Is a duplicate an inherent threat to the original? How long does a perfect copy remain identical as experiences diverge? Can copies be allowed an identity beyond that of the original, and can they coexist? This paper will examine contemporary television, focusing on Battlestar Galactica (2003), Stargate: Atlantis, and Farscape.
so. there's that.
looking back:
so. pca/aca. jam-packed, that was. i mean, i hate to be a grind and all, but i never get to go to actual *productive*, thinky conferences - not that (public) library conferences don't have the occasional really good session, and i will happily admit that i get a lot out of even the poor sessions, but they aren't as great with the thinkyness. i mean, they're more top-down: here's what our library did - the end. take the tools you can and apply them as you may. like i said, maybe it's because i don't have anything at stake in an academic conference - i am not going to have to come home and quantify what i got out of it or risk losing the ability to network. anyway. my point is, i begrudged every hour i spent not in a session, when a session was going on. (though every session i missed was due to my own hangover decision, and i made a conscious choice every time.)
wednesday raz0rgirl and i flew in together, but on different planes, arriving a bit before 11am on wednesday. and then we stood waiting for the airport shuttle for an hour and forty minutes. next time, we will be taking a cab, seriously.
we got to the marriott and she checked in and i dropped my bags in her room, since i wasn't totally confident about what direction my hotel was in. and we checked in to the conference, which took forever (wednesday's overarching theme was: queuing). and then we were very nearly dead of hunger and being up and on the go since 4am (though come to think of it, i woke up randomly an hour before my alarm to find that ms raz0rgirl had opted against sleep and was up in gchat. so i think that means we were on the go since 3am, really), so we went in search of lunch. and found yuca fajitas and tamarindo, so. win.
then i checked in at my medium-awesome hotel (it would have been awesome-awesome, except friday morning it filled with families and got really noisy. /curmudgeon), and took a shower and changed into summertime clothes and hit my first set of papers -
Fan Culture & Theory I: Consuming Media: Fan Videos and Vidders
- Veni, Vidi, Vids!: Fan Video Editors and the Strategic Remix of Popular
Culture
- A is for Unorthodox‘: Fan-made Pastiche and the AMV Hell Project
- Accidentally in Love: Narrative Strategies in X-Men Fanvids
the first one was great - it stayed interesting but gave a solid overview, with a bunch of examples of the different things that vidders do, and how they do them, illustrated with a bunch of excerpts of spn vids. the second was also good - i know next to nothing about amv, and this was all about an ongoing project. i got a lot out of it! the third, i feel pretty iffy about. where the first presentation was careful to show the vids off in high quality, and thoroughly attributed, with mention of creator permission, this one was screen animations of youtube. with two vids, both shown in their entirety. i guess i wasn't entirely sure what the point was - "there is this thing called a vid; here are two x-men slash vids", i guess. plus a basic explanation of slash and romance tropes in movies. it was okay. what i learned from this: the woman who played kitty pryde was also the woman who was in juno? how did i not know that? also, mostly every time i saw rogue i got bummed out by her storyline in the damn movies, so maybe i didn't give it all a fair shake. this was also the paper, i'm pretty sure, that said things are only transformative if they are in strong conflict with the source - meaning parody and slash, and meaning not things that highlight existing elements or change existing emphases. which bothered me.
then:
Philosophy & Popular Culture I: Philosophy and Cinema I
- Memory Mysticism in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Knowing How and Knowing That in the Bourne Trilogy
- Agency and Identity in Ludlum‘s Bourne Identity
i was very excited about these! except, you know: only one of the presenters showed up. except i feel confident that the guy who *did* show up was the awesomest, so whatever. the middle paper - he talked all about gilbert ryle! it was very useful, actually.
then i went back to the hotel and whined about trying to find dinner on twitter (erm, yeah. not my finest hour, but i got a lot of info, so) and met up with people and must have got dinner...someplace. oh! i remember now. here. and then a drink. and then bed.
thursday i missed the 8am sessions on account of how there was no coffee in my actual room. once i managed to find a potful, though, i made it to:
Comic Art & Comics V: Comics Can Be Therapeutic
- I‘m supposed to meet Satan at the Scorpions concert this weekend‘: Family
Systems Theory, Metaphor, and Autobiography in John Porcellino‘s Perfect
Example
- Isolated & Lost: The Recurring Theme of the Alienated Adolescent in the Works
of Jhonen Vasquez
- Comic Book Superheroes and Psychotherapy
- Exploring the Holocaust‘s Second Generation in Bernice Eisenstein‘s I Was a
Child of Holocaust Survivors and Miriam Katin‘s We Are on Our Own
and those were all pretty good. the holocaust paper was the most interesting (i took the most notes?) and the jhonen vasquez was the most fun. i got a little annoyed at the psychotherapist as he made a point of saying he wasn't a comic book geek, he just uses them as a tool - and that comics are really only useful in therapy with teen boys. but whatever! it was still interesting.
then: The Sixties II: Countercultural Music: Accessibility, Commodification
and the Hidden
- The Monkees: A Happily but Safely Diverse Portrait for a New America
- Leave Me Alone, Don‘t Bother Me‘: The Beatles and a Turn towards Isolation
- I Give You a Testimonial‘: Religious Rhetoric in Representations of the MC-5
- Playing the Electric Circus: An Instrument for Social and Artistic Change
i went to a monkees paper! i am still very very excited by that. it was a good intro to the monkees and a lot of the history and information around them as people and as a phenomena, and the paper pointed out some stuff i hadn't thought of before, but the bulk was overview. monkees! monkees paper! i actually don't care. that made my day. the beatles paper was okay, sort of psychoanalysis at a distance. the mc-5 thing was cool, also mostly history, but stuff i wasn't as familiar with. and then i either left or the fourth person didn't show up - not sure. i probably didn't leave? i don't like to make anyone feel bad. but who knows - i sit at the back, so.
then raz0rgirl and i got lunch at the same place where we ate wednesday's lunch (thursday's theme: plantains). we both had maduros fajitas. so good.
then: Fan Culture & Theory IV: Academics in the Middle: Fan/Creator
Interactions
- Authenticity, Popular Aesthetics and the Sub-Cultural Politics of an Unwanted
Blockbuster: The Case of Transformers
- Paralyzed from the Start: Changing Dialogs between Creators and Viewers in the
Third Season of LOST
- Are We Still 'Trapped in Space?‘: Mystery Science Theater 3000 and its Current
Day Offshoots
- Popular and Permanent: The Myth of Transience in Fandom Studies
so. O HAI SURPRISE VID PAPER. sort of. i still haven't watched the transformers movie, but i know at least two diehard, old-school transformers fans, and have heard both of their takes before, during, and after release of the movie. so the paper was mainly on fan trailers for the film, which were really interesting. they were all shown as youtube screencaps, which i found kind of disrespectful again, but trailer vids do have a community there, definitely - it's just, i would have found that more relevant if there had been any actual discussion of how that community functions. the lost paper was given by sisters, and they used a couple of gimmicks for their reading that i'm still not sure were successful or not. they held my attention, so in that way, definite success. the mst3k thing was more about media creators - who are doing something transformative, and analogous to fannish activities, but it seemed like the odd paper out. but i really enjoyed it - i think the whole secondary-commentary-playable-with-a-work idea is terrific, and i like the idea that it can actually stand as a media of its own. the last paper was interesting, but wobbly. and i'm not really sure what the central premise was meant to be, as i'm not sure it was exactly what i thought it was going to be from the title.
then: Communication & Digital Culture II: Free Labor and Capital
- Exploring the Immaterial, Affective and Free Labor of Musicians on
Indabamusic.com
- King‘s Quest Eternal: Fan Adventure Games and the Never-ending Classical Era
- I Made This for You: The Gift Economy of Secondary Fanworks
- Capital and the Reconstruction of Status in Second Life: Controlling the Virtual
Mayhem
i am running out of steam with this post. sigh. i really loved all four of these papers. i had never heard of indabamusic.com before - it seems a bit like what fanlib said they were going to be, except, you know, without exposing people to legal action, hanging them out to dry, stealing their stuff, or baldly selling them to the highest bidder. essentially, they're connecting famous musicians with aspiring musicians, and creating a supportive context for artistic & professional growth. and they get content out of it, and do unobtrusive advertising. it was neat to learn about. the second paper was about adventure game fans re-creating no longer available/playable games, and their struggles with the copyright owners, and their community, which seems very much to be a place where people contribute work for love of the games, but also with aspirations toward work in the game creating field. the secondary fanworks paper was very much about rejecting the idea that people who create fanworks do so to curry favor with media creators, or because they want to turn pro at whatever the media is - it had loads of things to say, and i am hopeful that the author will distribute it in some way or submit it to the twc's symposium or something. *releases hope into the aether* and...i really do need to finish writing my post on secondary fanworks. i've only been writing it for a damn year and a half. anyway. the last one was a complete overview of the ways that the economy works in second life, using four different sorts of capital. and wow, is second life ever the most capitalist place ever. apparently. it was really fascinating.
and futuransky turned up during the panel!
and then raz0rgirl and i went to dinner, which was plantains. i mean, we walked to bennachin, which was fantastic, and incredibly vegetarian friendly. and we both got dinners with plantains in.
and then back for the final panel of the night.
Science Fiction & Fantasy XI: The Others: Fandom, Race, and
Diversity
- I sometimes think we sort too soon‘: How Fandom Gave Humanity Back to the
Slytherins
- Give me my happy ending!‘: Fan Fiction and V for Vendetta
- Of End(ing) Projections: Race and Failure in Minority Science Fiction
- A Colorful Imagination: The Diversity in Science Fiction and Fantasy for
Adolescent Readers
i really liked the slytherin paper. because i really liked the ideas behind it. it made me make plans to think about stuff, even if it didn't really give me any tools to use beyond those ideas. the v for vendetta paper was really interesting too, though i have to say i spent some time wrestling with the idea that there's a romantic plot in that. i didn't notice? or i sort of did, but i never thought about it? the race and failure paper was fascinating, but not written to be delivered aloud - though the guy who wrote it had a lovely voice, and it was very nice to listen to. i think if i'd known the books he was talking about, i would have been okay, but there we are: a nice example of the final paper's argument: my reading lacks something in breadth. the final paper was an impassioned personal essay on teaching education students to learn a diverse canon so that they aren't just re-teaching the same stories. i had a couple of little issues (there was a thing about how the students are women, women hate scifi, so. erm), but the passionate delivery was terrific.
anyway. then we met up with cathexys and i drank two bloody marys and no water and effectively hobbled my friday with dehydration and exhaustion. but i'll get to friday later, maybe. i'm done typing for now.
see, this is why posting is hard. i save up too much and have to type for sixteen damn hours. and the result is not exactly riveting. but at least if i get amnesia, now i'll know what i did last wednesday and thursday.
(manually xposted from dreamwidth. i will be very pleased when i can do this with a tickybox.)
i got my wiscon schedule.
Gadgets: Then, Now and When - Cyberpunk and steampunk are alluring gadget-heavy genres: what roles do gadgets and their inventors play in characterization and world-building? What gadgets exist that we never dreamt we'd see, and which do we think we may see within our lifetimes? What are the fictional gadgets we wish really existed? Which real gadgets can't we live without, and which do we take for granted? (raz0rgirl proposed this one.
Robots from the future (and the past) - Man-made beings have been a favorite science fiction theme since Frankenstein. In the reimagined Battlestar Galactica and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, earlier representations of robots and cyborgs are updated for the twenty-first century, and they frequently appear as female figures. As robot apocalypse narratives shift focus from oversized metal horrors to sympathetic and/or devious human simulacra linked by wireless networks, what anxieties about the way we understand the human are being worked through in these shows and other cyborg-centric futures? What histories and (science) fictions do they invoke? And what do these narratives signify when it comes to gender, race, and class? (i believe this was ms futuransky's proposal)
Adapt, Revise, Revisit: When is a Copy Not the Source? - What constitutes an adaptation, and how is that different from a remake? At what point is something new created? Where within the tradition of reinterpretation do new visionings break away from their predecessors as independent works? What role does viewer or reader expectation play? Why does a new work keep the same name as the previous iteration if they are otherwise very different? How much does capitalism play a role when a "property" is owned by a corporation? We'll look at recent film and television remakes, as well as plays, novels, short stories, comics, and other works that have been adapted into new formats, to consider these questions. (raz0rgirl and i co-wrote this one, and i'm moderating.)
and my paper! appears to be part of a presentation called Technological and Supernatural Identity Construction. possibly. i mean, i can't really read that part, but maybe. my abstract:Reflected Self, Refracted Identities: The Meanings Of Multiplicity - Speculative fiction allows for duplication of the self by faithfully copying the body, allowing multiple iterations of a character to interact and potentially enter into competition with each other. The duplication trope reflects enduring interest in issues of identity, validity of experience, and what it means to be unique. Is a duplicate an inherent threat to the original? How long does a perfect copy remain identical as experiences diverge? Can copies be allowed an identity beyond that of the original, and can they coexist? This paper will examine contemporary television, focusing on Battlestar Galactica (2003), Stargate: Atlantis, and Farscape.
so. there's that.
looking back:
so. pca/aca. jam-packed, that was. i mean, i hate to be a grind and all, but i never get to go to actual *productive*, thinky conferences - not that (public) library conferences don't have the occasional really good session, and i will happily admit that i get a lot out of even the poor sessions, but they aren't as great with the thinkyness. i mean, they're more top-down: here's what our library did - the end. take the tools you can and apply them as you may. like i said, maybe it's because i don't have anything at stake in an academic conference - i am not going to have to come home and quantify what i got out of it or risk losing the ability to network. anyway. my point is, i begrudged every hour i spent not in a session, when a session was going on. (though every session i missed was due to my own hangover decision, and i made a conscious choice every time.)
wednesday raz0rgirl and i flew in together, but on different planes, arriving a bit before 11am on wednesday. and then we stood waiting for the airport shuttle for an hour and forty minutes. next time, we will be taking a cab, seriously.
we got to the marriott and she checked in and i dropped my bags in her room, since i wasn't totally confident about what direction my hotel was in. and we checked in to the conference, which took forever (wednesday's overarching theme was: queuing). and then we were very nearly dead of hunger and being up and on the go since 4am (though come to think of it, i woke up randomly an hour before my alarm to find that ms raz0rgirl had opted against sleep and was up in gchat. so i think that means we were on the go since 3am, really), so we went in search of lunch. and found yuca fajitas and tamarindo, so. win.
then i checked in at my medium-awesome hotel (it would have been awesome-awesome, except friday morning it filled with families and got really noisy. /curmudgeon), and took a shower and changed into summertime clothes and hit my first set of papers -
Fan Culture & Theory I: Consuming Media: Fan Videos and Vidders
- Veni, Vidi, Vids!: Fan Video Editors and the Strategic Remix of Popular
Culture
- A is for Unorthodox‘: Fan-made Pastiche and the AMV Hell Project
- Accidentally in Love: Narrative Strategies in X-Men Fanvids
the first one was great - it stayed interesting but gave a solid overview, with a bunch of examples of the different things that vidders do, and how they do them, illustrated with a bunch of excerpts of spn vids. the second was also good - i know next to nothing about amv, and this was all about an ongoing project. i got a lot out of it! the third, i feel pretty iffy about. where the first presentation was careful to show the vids off in high quality, and thoroughly attributed, with mention of creator permission, this one was screen animations of youtube. with two vids, both shown in their entirety. i guess i wasn't entirely sure what the point was - "there is this thing called a vid; here are two x-men slash vids", i guess. plus a basic explanation of slash and romance tropes in movies. it was okay. what i learned from this: the woman who played kitty pryde was also the woman who was in juno? how did i not know that? also, mostly every time i saw rogue i got bummed out by her storyline in the damn movies, so maybe i didn't give it all a fair shake. this was also the paper, i'm pretty sure, that said things are only transformative if they are in strong conflict with the source - meaning parody and slash, and meaning not things that highlight existing elements or change existing emphases. which bothered me.
then:
Philosophy & Popular Culture I: Philosophy and Cinema I
- Memory Mysticism in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Knowing How and Knowing That in the Bourne Trilogy
- Agency and Identity in Ludlum‘s Bourne Identity
i was very excited about these! except, you know: only one of the presenters showed up. except i feel confident that the guy who *did* show up was the awesomest, so whatever. the middle paper - he talked all about gilbert ryle! it was very useful, actually.
then i went back to the hotel and whined about trying to find dinner on twitter (erm, yeah. not my finest hour, but i got a lot of info, so) and met up with people and must have got dinner...someplace. oh! i remember now. here. and then a drink. and then bed.
thursday i missed the 8am sessions on account of how there was no coffee in my actual room. once i managed to find a potful, though, i made it to:
Comic Art & Comics V: Comics Can Be Therapeutic
- I‘m supposed to meet Satan at the Scorpions concert this weekend‘: Family
Systems Theory, Metaphor, and Autobiography in John Porcellino‘s Perfect
Example
- Isolated & Lost: The Recurring Theme of the Alienated Adolescent in the Works
of Jhonen Vasquez
- Comic Book Superheroes and Psychotherapy
- Exploring the Holocaust‘s Second Generation in Bernice Eisenstein‘s I Was a
Child of Holocaust Survivors and Miriam Katin‘s We Are on Our Own
and those were all pretty good. the holocaust paper was the most interesting (i took the most notes?) and the jhonen vasquez was the most fun. i got a little annoyed at the psychotherapist as he made a point of saying he wasn't a comic book geek, he just uses them as a tool - and that comics are really only useful in therapy with teen boys. but whatever! it was still interesting.
then: The Sixties II: Countercultural Music: Accessibility, Commodification
and the Hidden
- The Monkees: A Happily but Safely Diverse Portrait for a New America
- Leave Me Alone, Don‘t Bother Me‘: The Beatles and a Turn towards Isolation
- I Give You a Testimonial‘: Religious Rhetoric in Representations of the MC-5
- Playing the Electric Circus: An Instrument for Social and Artistic Change
i went to a monkees paper! i am still very very excited by that. it was a good intro to the monkees and a lot of the history and information around them as people and as a phenomena, and the paper pointed out some stuff i hadn't thought of before, but the bulk was overview. monkees! monkees paper! i actually don't care. that made my day. the beatles paper was okay, sort of psychoanalysis at a distance. the mc-5 thing was cool, also mostly history, but stuff i wasn't as familiar with. and then i either left or the fourth person didn't show up - not sure. i probably didn't leave? i don't like to make anyone feel bad. but who knows - i sit at the back, so.
then raz0rgirl and i got lunch at the same place where we ate wednesday's lunch (thursday's theme: plantains). we both had maduros fajitas. so good.
then: Fan Culture & Theory IV: Academics in the Middle: Fan/Creator
Interactions
- Authenticity, Popular Aesthetics and the Sub-Cultural Politics of an Unwanted
Blockbuster: The Case of Transformers
- Paralyzed from the Start: Changing Dialogs between Creators and Viewers in the
Third Season of LOST
- Are We Still 'Trapped in Space?‘: Mystery Science Theater 3000 and its Current
Day Offshoots
- Popular and Permanent: The Myth of Transience in Fandom Studies
so. O HAI SURPRISE VID PAPER. sort of. i still haven't watched the transformers movie, but i know at least two diehard, old-school transformers fans, and have heard both of their takes before, during, and after release of the movie. so the paper was mainly on fan trailers for the film, which were really interesting. they were all shown as youtube screencaps, which i found kind of disrespectful again, but trailer vids do have a community there, definitely - it's just, i would have found that more relevant if there had been any actual discussion of how that community functions. the lost paper was given by sisters, and they used a couple of gimmicks for their reading that i'm still not sure were successful or not. they held my attention, so in that way, definite success. the mst3k thing was more about media creators - who are doing something transformative, and analogous to fannish activities, but it seemed like the odd paper out. but i really enjoyed it - i think the whole secondary-commentary-playable-with-a-work idea is terrific, and i like the idea that it can actually stand as a media of its own. the last paper was interesting, but wobbly. and i'm not really sure what the central premise was meant to be, as i'm not sure it was exactly what i thought it was going to be from the title.
then: Communication & Digital Culture II: Free Labor and Capital
- Exploring the Immaterial, Affective and Free Labor of Musicians on
Indabamusic.com
- King‘s Quest Eternal: Fan Adventure Games and the Never-ending Classical Era
- I Made This for You: The Gift Economy of Secondary Fanworks
- Capital and the Reconstruction of Status in Second Life: Controlling the Virtual
Mayhem
i am running out of steam with this post. sigh. i really loved all four of these papers. i had never heard of indabamusic.com before - it seems a bit like what fanlib said they were going to be, except, you know, without exposing people to legal action, hanging them out to dry, stealing their stuff, or baldly selling them to the highest bidder. essentially, they're connecting famous musicians with aspiring musicians, and creating a supportive context for artistic & professional growth. and they get content out of it, and do unobtrusive advertising. it was neat to learn about. the second paper was about adventure game fans re-creating no longer available/playable games, and their struggles with the copyright owners, and their community, which seems very much to be a place where people contribute work for love of the games, but also with aspirations toward work in the game creating field. the secondary fanworks paper was very much about rejecting the idea that people who create fanworks do so to curry favor with media creators, or because they want to turn pro at whatever the media is - it had loads of things to say, and i am hopeful that the author will distribute it in some way or submit it to the twc's symposium or something. *releases hope into the aether* and...i really do need to finish writing my post on secondary fanworks. i've only been writing it for a damn year and a half. anyway. the last one was a complete overview of the ways that the economy works in second life, using four different sorts of capital. and wow, is second life ever the most capitalist place ever. apparently. it was really fascinating.
and futuransky turned up during the panel!
and then raz0rgirl and i went to dinner, which was plantains. i mean, we walked to bennachin, which was fantastic, and incredibly vegetarian friendly. and we both got dinners with plantains in.
and then back for the final panel of the night.
Science Fiction & Fantasy XI: The Others: Fandom, Race, and
Diversity
- I sometimes think we sort too soon‘: How Fandom Gave Humanity Back to the
Slytherins
- Give me my happy ending!‘: Fan Fiction and V for Vendetta
- Of End(ing) Projections: Race and Failure in Minority Science Fiction
- A Colorful Imagination: The Diversity in Science Fiction and Fantasy for
Adolescent Readers
i really liked the slytherin paper. because i really liked the ideas behind it. it made me make plans to think about stuff, even if it didn't really give me any tools to use beyond those ideas. the v for vendetta paper was really interesting too, though i have to say i spent some time wrestling with the idea that there's a romantic plot in that. i didn't notice? or i sort of did, but i never thought about it? the race and failure paper was fascinating, but not written to be delivered aloud - though the guy who wrote it had a lovely voice, and it was very nice to listen to. i think if i'd known the books he was talking about, i would have been okay, but there we are: a nice example of the final paper's argument: my reading lacks something in breadth. the final paper was an impassioned personal essay on teaching education students to learn a diverse canon so that they aren't just re-teaching the same stories. i had a couple of little issues (there was a thing about how the students are women, women hate scifi, so. erm), but the passionate delivery was terrific.
anyway. then we met up with cathexys and i drank two bloody marys and no water and effectively hobbled my friday with dehydration and exhaustion. but i'll get to friday later, maybe. i'm done typing for now.
see, this is why posting is hard. i save up too much and have to type for sixteen damn hours. and the result is not exactly riveting. but at least if i get amnesia, now i'll know what i did last wednesday and thursday.
(manually xposted from dreamwidth. i will be very pleased when i can do this with a tickybox.)