It jus so happened that last night, in the time I set aside to work on a mound of paperwork, there was a show on MSNBC about body modification, including commentary from the detestable Dr. Favazza.  In case you have not had the pleasure of experiencing the modern Freud, I direct you to his so-called cornerston work, Bodies Under Seige.  In it, ( Read more... )

I am seriously considering submitting an abstract.  How well does the theme of the misappropriation/universality of Maori body art fit into this discussion?

Thoughts?

THE GLOBAL STUDIES CONFERENCE, University of
Illinois, Chicago, 16-18 May 2008
http://www.GlobalStudiesConference.com

The Global Studies Conference on Global Studies
Journal are devoted to ( Read more... )

Someone finally uploaded part of "Skin Stories" to youtube.  Neat.

In other news, it's snowing again.  Fuck.

Old NZ Herald article on the Christina Bevans lawsuit.

It's officially 45 pages, with less than half the notes now incorporated and the concluding chapter is only one page at the moment.  Still, I am confident with the four chapter structure, plus intro.  I think I can now take my index card questions and make sure I clearly indicate and answer them in an appropriate order.  I can use the notes to ( Read more... )

So the prof is back from Tamako and already he's asking to see a draft.  I *hate* my writing style!  I have a draft, but it resembles a jigsaw  puzzle at the moment, one where I now have all the pieces and have seperated them into the different  quadrants of the overall picture and have even assembled some, but if I were to turn it over to anyone, ( Read more... )

http://glaceyeux.blogspot.com/2007/07/ill-eat-your-liver-and-still-look.html

Apparently these are the pics that appear in the Vogue spread I mentioned the other day.  As someone on the ASAO list remarked, clothing is not always about what you wear, but about how you think...

Waking up this morning sans my labret made me wonder about all those things they say you swallow and never realize it.  Like spiders.  Isn't there a statistic for that?  It's most likely in my bed or on the floor somewhere, but it made me think anyhow ( Read more... )

Two courses, the last of my Masters work.

Pacific Islands - A

Core Seminar in Prehistory (Archaeology) -  A minus

And, before you ask, no, there are no such things as A+ at KSU.

Final GPA of Masters career: 3.84  and damn that A-!  I would have been able to round up to a three point nine if I would have had a solid A.

One B, two A minuses, and the rest ( Read more... )

I just completed the last of my Master's coursework.  2 years of work.  How crazy is that?  There is still the high possibility of graduating with something like a 3.8 or 3.9.  We'll have to see.  Furthermore, I am hoping to be exactly half way through the thesis part by Thursday, though that may be a bit premature.  By the time I am old is more ( Read more... )