˝Regularly˝ is a subjective notion
It has been way, WAY too long since I last wrote an update, which could mean one of two things: I am not experiencing anything noteworthy, or I am so busy experiencing noteworthy things that I have no time to update. In reality, it's been a mix of the latter option and the fact that it's such a hassle to go to a computer lab everytime I want to write something. But here I am, and here is an update. Finally.
I am fully installed in my apartment and I LOVE it. When Bart came over he brought all the essentials and then some extras, including his precious self, so the place has been made my own twice over. It was really great to see Bart. I have never really been inclined to miss people much, but I have to admit that the first days after his departure were utterly depressing. The fact that I got a flu right after didn't help much, either. But I got better and I got over it, and in any case I'm coming home for christmas so I am just going to quit the sentimental crap and enjoy my time here.
Last Sunday I made dinner for my friends Sara and Maša (who, I may or may not have mentioned here before, are the cutest couple in the history of out of the closet lesbians). Thanks to Bart's present of a mortar and pestle (thanks babe!) and a trip to the spice lady a the market I managed to make a decent lamb curry. After that we went to the weekly gay party a club K4, which was a total blast. And again with the €2 gin&tonics...
But it hasn't been all play. I have been taking two classes. One on women's anthropology of myth. In the course we examined the way in which myths are gendered and do specific work of defining gender. Part of the course was dedicated to women's utopia, which links nicely, I think, to my work on feminist pornography. The other course is on the theory of rhetoric, the disowned bastard child of academic theorizing. It was a little difficult to shake off years of argumentation analysis to get into the jouissance and erotics of rhetorics, but I must say that I am starting to see its uses for a feminist academic agenda. For the first time in quite a while I am really looking forward to writing papers.
And to counter balance all this academic excess I have been revelling in my newfound domestic talents. I have, over the course of about two weeks:
- knit a bag out of really beautiful handspun recycled sari silk yarn;
- rehemmed my skirt, which had been hemless for at least a year;
- shortened my new Stella McCartney for H&M trousers;
- did all my laundry by hand (more of necessity from lack of a washing machine, but still);
- shovelled snow (hurray!).
And while on the topic of snow: In the week Bart was here we had snow just about up to his knees (wghich means it came up to my elbows, more or less)! It was really pretty for a while, but sad to see that all that remains now are piles of gray-black sludge by the sides of the roads. But still, it was exciting while it lasted. As soon as I get a chance I will post pictures.
I am in the process of getting internet installed at my place, so soon I will be able to update more regularly. Until then I hope you are all doing well and surviving your winter depressions unscathed.
I am fully installed in my apartment and I LOVE it. When Bart came over he brought all the essentials and then some extras, including his precious self, so the place has been made my own twice over. It was really great to see Bart. I have never really been inclined to miss people much, but I have to admit that the first days after his departure were utterly depressing. The fact that I got a flu right after didn't help much, either. But I got better and I got over it, and in any case I'm coming home for christmas so I am just going to quit the sentimental crap and enjoy my time here.
Last Sunday I made dinner for my friends Sara and Maša (who, I may or may not have mentioned here before, are the cutest couple in the history of out of the closet lesbians). Thanks to Bart's present of a mortar and pestle (thanks babe!) and a trip to the spice lady a the market I managed to make a decent lamb curry. After that we went to the weekly gay party a club K4, which was a total blast. And again with the €2 gin&tonics...
But it hasn't been all play. I have been taking two classes. One on women's anthropology of myth. In the course we examined the way in which myths are gendered and do specific work of defining gender. Part of the course was dedicated to women's utopia, which links nicely, I think, to my work on feminist pornography. The other course is on the theory of rhetoric, the disowned bastard child of academic theorizing. It was a little difficult to shake off years of argumentation analysis to get into the jouissance and erotics of rhetorics, but I must say that I am starting to see its uses for a feminist academic agenda. For the first time in quite a while I am really looking forward to writing papers.
And to counter balance all this academic excess I have been revelling in my newfound domestic talents. I have, over the course of about two weeks:
- knit a bag out of really beautiful handspun recycled sari silk yarn;
- rehemmed my skirt, which had been hemless for at least a year;
- shortened my new Stella McCartney for H&M trousers;
- did all my laundry by hand (more of necessity from lack of a washing machine, but still);
- shovelled snow (hurray!).
And while on the topic of snow: In the week Bart was here we had snow just about up to his knees (wghich means it came up to my elbows, more or less)! It was really pretty for a while, but sad to see that all that remains now are piles of gray-black sludge by the sides of the roads. But still, it was exciting while it lasted. As soon as I get a chance I will post pictures.
I am in the process of getting internet installed at my place, so soon I will be able to update more regularly. Until then I hope you are all doing well and surviving your winter depressions unscathed.