Oh, I miss my laptop (with its working power cord).  I had it trained so well!

I just spell-checked 1/3 of a page on the borrowed computer lab laptop and had to teach the Word dictionary "diasporic", "interpellated", "essentialization", and "pluralization."

What, no one at Microsoft is interested in cultural studies?

::glances up wearily from 31st page of Spivak::

Dude, this whole "skip doing the Media & Cultural Theory Summaries for three weeks" idea sounded a lot better three weeks ago.

Blrggh.

If you missed it, my call for addresses is here.  Respond if you want a holiday card from me this year!

Sigh.

Guess it's time to start researching the old seminar paper.

::shakes head and dutifully begins::

::throws in first disc of Buffy S3::

HA!  That IS my research!!  My job ROCKS!

AWESOME.

I am now thankful for rm_renfield, who is as we speak on her way over here to order a pizza to eat while we watch Twin Peaks.  I always liked that girl ( Read more... )

No, you're not getting filtered out of any super-sekrit posts ... I just haven't been talky girl lately.  Let's do bullet points to catch up, shall we ( Read more... )

Seriously, is this an actual sentence?!?

"Words that render sensible to an ear properly attuned with what elusive ambiguity the ring of meaning flees from our grasp along the verbal thread."

Doesn't it feel like the subject line of random spam?

Do you think perhaps it's out of context, and I should include the next paragraph? Okay:

"What ( Read more... )

Okay.

You know how you can get Google to translate a site into English? It's kind of funny, right, to see what pops up? Ha ha, we say, such funny English.

It's less funny when you're trying to read Lacan and it feels like Google has also translated this particular version.

I know the words. I can define them. They're just not ... right, in ( Read more... )

8:43 pm - Annnnnnd I'm back.  Pizza - yummy.  "Sanctuary" - fantastic, as usual.  Wonderful theorizing and fanwanking with rm_renfield.  We decided that "Five by Five" happened between "New Moon Rising" and "The Yoko Factor".  Has this been discussed anywhere else ( Read more... )

HAH.

I have been SO GOOD today.  I've been on-line for 24 minutes, and I spent 8 of those doing TA stuff.  So far today, I've read the Poster, Meyrowitz, McLuhan, Innis and Carey.  AND highlighted.  And soon I'll be able to start organizing ideas, leading to an outline, leading to a paper, leading to me getting to play on-line.

Oh, and I cleaned ( Read more... )

5:07 - 936 words.  One snappy conclusion and I am going to BED.  Where it's warm.  And soft.  And my back will stop hurting.  Because I say so ( Read more... )