Went to Glasgow. Gave a paper at the Screen conference. Queer theorists still don't like me and I still don't like them. 5.5 hour trainride from London to Glasgow was better than flying but was still hell. When Glasgow is good, it's very good; when it's bad, it's terrifying ( Read more... )

Are you in the mood to completely lose any remaining faith in humanity? Then allow me to point you to appleiphone, where you can stare at your computer screen in horror while reading posts like this one: "So how many iPhones did you buy and how long did you wait in line? I sat in line for 14 hours, was 30th in line, and picked up two 8 gig iPhones."
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Holy shit. Lisa arrives in Canterbury tomorrow. Clearly, I have not been paying attention.

To-do list:

RIGHT NOW:

• Eat some food to pacify the Tylenol I just took, to ensure that I don't vomit everywhere.

TODAY:

• Finish that paper (um...).

TOMORROW:

• Attend job-talks for new assistant professor appointment.
• Give paper to Elizabeth.
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Dinner started out very ambitiously - some sort of aubergine casserole. It ended in peanut butter and honey sandwiches, which are also yummy, and much easier to make than aubergine casserole.

- JJJJS

The wave of recent blog posts about pride weekends and so on made me wonder if such things exist in Britain, so I looked it up. Naturally, there are no parades in Canterbury (public lynchings, maybe), but of course Brighton has one... and its theme this year is MUSICALS ( Read more... )

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I am sitting around watching Neighbours, texting back and forth with Tall Ellie about the various stupid decisions the characters are making.

GIVE ME MY DOCTORATE!

- JJJJS

I could watch Antiques Roadshow every day of my stupid life and never get sick of the damn show. When Ben and I visited it at Rochester Cathedral, I nearly passed out from the excitement (Ben brought a lamp that was valued at £2.00, and threw it into a loo garbage can immediately after getting it appraised - he was so crestfallen). Now I think I'm ( Read more... )