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[wanttobeatree]

How is it that my local WHSmiths can stock multiple copies of Engineering In Miniature (articles on all aspects of model engineering!) but have not one single writing magazine of any title?

BLOODY CORNWALL. It is where old people come to die/build model trains.

Anyway, SPRING HAS HAPPENED. The sunlight was actually warm today. I stepped out of

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[13chapters]

Spring is still a long way aways here in snowy Michigan. *tired of winter*

[wanttobeatree]

Sucks to be yoooouu :DDD

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YOU'RE MEAN.

[wanttobeatree]

YOU COULD BE BUILDING A SNOWMAN RIGHT NOW!

[fannishliss]

a "multi-media critical reflection of your own experience of self-identity" --SEE IT IS SO GOOD THAT YOU ORDERED FUN HOME. YAY! i hope you will like it.

I wonder what other sort of identity you would experience, other than self-identity. Hmm... Oh, I guess they mean as opposed to like cultural, gender, ethnic etc. (though those facets of identity would be part of your self-identity to varying degrees?)

[wanttobeatree]

OH I TOTALLY FORGOT TO SAY! I got my copy of Fun Home the other day :D I really, really liked it. I might make my dad read it, too, as he completely Does Not Get the appeal of comic books. (But then again I might not, as I'd feel a bit weird giving my dad a book with pictures of cunnilingus in it. MY PARENTS HAD SEX TWICE, DAMMIT. ONCE FOR MY BROTHER AND ONCE FOR ME.)

That is actually part of what we discussed in the seminar! The difference between identity-the-big-word and self-identity. My tutor put it as "identity is where subjectivity (ie self-identity) meets bigger structures of power" like gender, sexuality, nationality etc. Which I liked, so I wrote it down.

[fleshflutter]

I don't know my very first word but I do know that 'baboon' was one of my very earliest. My big sister taught me to say it and she still sometimes likes to make me say it so she can point out to everyone else that she was the one who taught me to say that.

Also, I am somehow intrigued by Engineering in Miniature. Maybe this is because engineering is already a bit like magic as far as my brain is concerned. So mini-magic sounds doubly cool.

[wanttobeatree]

Baboon is a pretty excellent early word to have! Alas, my big brother was too young to nefariously teach me words when I started talking, so mine are all very ordinary :( (One of Steven's fairly early words, on the other hand, was todger, due to an incident involving my dad lying on the floor and my brother jumping on an unfortunate part of him.)

The magazine cover didn't look very exciting, but maybe that was just to keep away strangers like me and inside it is filled with MAGIC AND EXCITEMENT. Who knows...

[karabou]

Wtf I wish it was Spring here. ;___;

[wanttobeatree]

Hahahaaaa it is so SUNNY and the weather is getting SLIGHTLY WARMER and I expect there will be LEAVES soon 8DDD