I can't believe I've just spent 30 minutes trying to explain to a gay boy that Ugly Betty has a queer aesthetic.

Me: Vanessa Williams is the queerest thing about that show.

Him: Umm...how?

(Conversational Disaster)

1. Princeton, PhD, English
2. Brown, PhD, Theatre and Performance Studies
3. Northwestern, PhD, Interdisciplinary Program in Theatre and Drama
4. Cornell, PhD, Theatre Studies
5. UCLA, PhD, Theatre
6. CUNY, PhD, Theatre
7. University of Michigan, PhD, English
8. USC, PhD, English
9. UCSD, PhD, Theatre
10. University of Iowa, MFA,

22 people wrote english honors theses
9 were nominated for best thesis
my friend michelle got best thesis, i got 2nd

a nice boost to know that people other than my advisors thing my thesis is good, and willing to think about musicals seriously ;)

ok so you know how sometimes you start college weighing 113 lbs?

and then you gain weight, and the nyou weigh 135

and then you dont' weight yourself for two years, but you know you've gained weight...so you think maybe 155?

and then you weigh yourself?

and you weigh 185?

oh

my

god

no more fast food. lots of water. and i might start *gasp*

"Twentieth Century Boys": Performing Wildean Affect in the Musical Archive

1. Had a thesis breakthrough
2. Now I need to learn about megamusicals
3. My advisor's biggest criticsm of me is that I "carry too much tension in my shoulders" ?
4. They are nominating me for a 20,000 research award!

so apparently i will be in summer school this summer.

a. it turns out the astronomy i have been taking is not "intro to..." but rather, "astronomy for majors"

b. i got a 50 on the first test

c. have no desire to distract myself from more important things in order to just pass the class.

d. ugh

so i've got some hardcore revising to do before i'm even considering it a first draft ...but i am handing it ot Ann and Stacy today.

my thesis chapter on a man of no importance...a lot got done this weekend.

its no pun, but for now:

"Man in the Mirror, Man in the Mirror": Reflective Nostalgia, Queer Dramaturgies, and the Politics of Repeating

1. saw a concert of new material by an up and coming musicals composer ( Read more... )

I got all my grades back--All A's with a B in Shakespeare. I knew I had a B earlier in the semester (thanks to my refusal to say anything in class), but my final paper was pretty amazing, and given that he also curves, I expected an A. So I emailed the professor to say WTF ( Read more... )