Why o why do I do this to myself?
(Okay, I do actually know why. Firstly, I was asked by the organiser, who is someone I really like and get on with, and secondly, the conference is in a really cool place, you can get me to any conference if you are holding it in some Cool Spot I have never visited, because that's the way I roll. And sometimes even spots which are not particularly Cool, but places I haven't been.)
I have oft moaned and whinged about writing papers which are basically been there, done that, rehashing stuff I have already done with a different slant.
But at least I can do them, even if it's boring.
Why do I set myself up for writing outside my areas of competence by offering to present a paper which is really pretty meta (on a topic that is kind of fuzzy around the edges)? While I do have *thoughts* I think my actual thoughts, though they might be provocative, would probably not extend to the length of paper that's been suggested.
And while I have *thoughts* my thoughts are as much coming out of other stuff, in particular years of feminism and thinking about it, as from my academic and scholarly interests.
Okay, dredging up some recent stuff that relates, realise this some of this might actually come in useful for Another Forthcoming Project. Plus, the Present is History Too, if I say it is and look at it as part of a historical context.
But still: WOEZ.
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