So, I’m defending my dissertation this Wednesday. Let me say that again: I’m defending my dissertation this. coming. Wednesday. Excuse me. I need to go have a lie-down. I’m thinking of blogging my preparation process over the next few days as a means of articulating my talking points, but I’m not sure about that, given [...]
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A feminist food studies bibliography
Posted by boxingoctopus on November 5, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/a-feminist-food-studies-bibliography/
For love of Edward Cullen
Friday in my class we talked about the meanings of vampires in the cultural imagination. Here is a powerpoint slideshow I put together based on a poll taken from my class and my Facebook friends. There’s not a lot of commentary here, but it’s a very compelling document indeed! Can you tell which comments were [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on October 25, 2010
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/for-love-of-edward-cullen/
Binning my ethos
I’ve noticed that a lot of students are wearing pajama bottoms and t-shirts on campus these days. My last day of class this semester is Thursday and since I’m not teaching, I thought I’d wear my pj bottoms, too. In fact, I think I’ll wear the whole set (mine is pink), complete with matching fuzzy [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on December 2, 2007
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/binning-my-ethos/
Huh
So, we got back from Seattle on Sunday night to learn that the shower and bathtub (two different bathrooms) were backing up and that my mother-in-law had been unable to bathe and was rapidly unraveling as a result. Poor thing! Plumber came on Monday, did some snaking and some other stuff, and now we are [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on October 17, 2007
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/huh/
First day of school
Today is the first day of the fall semester. I had gotten spoiled to the relative dearth of humanity on campus over the summer, so it was a bit of a rude awakening to have to dodge a throng at every turn. I started out by stopping at the Big Dorm convenience store to pick [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on August 29, 2007
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/first-day-of-school/
