One of the several books I'm reading this week is Francine Prose's Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them. I love books and occasionally I toy with the idea of more seriously practicing writing. However, for now I primarily hope that this book will give me ideas for teaching. I'll approach ( Read more... )

While checking out The Suburban Queen's blog on blogspot.com this evening, I discovered I had (at some point in the past) opened an account there. I hadn't done anything with it, but the space was there, just waiting for me to make use of it. So I figured, why not ( Read more... )

Finally finished revising my Japanese street fashion essay and sent it off today ( Read more... )

UTA has just announced that it has blog space for all UTA faculty and students. So now I will have another online presence ( Read more... )

Here is an extensive list of books I've bought while vacationing this summer. This list does not include books I may have bought online or while at home (eep).

( This is a REALLY long list of books. )

I submitted proposals for two papers to an editor of a book project about Animals and Agency this morning: "'Fish Are Just Like People, Only Flakier': Finding Nemo's
Environmental Theory" and "'What is your problem with hard to believe?':
Nature, Faith, and Yann Martel's Life of PiHopefully, the editors like one of them. It would be great to ( Read more... )

I am officially done with my encyclopedia entry on Japanese Street and Youth Fashion. I submitted the final draft this afternoon ( Read more... )

What in the world does one say in response to this ( Read more... )