Surprise!
As you may have noticed, there have been some changes around here. I hope you like them. Joshua and I had the always-enjoyable privileged of spending some time with our college-roommates (who conveniently married each other) K & E over the weekend. It was an abbreviated trip, but great anyway! E and I hurriedly made some amazing changes to this blog of mine. As if she weren't talented enough, that girl has become a whiz at Photo Shop. Anyway, in the next week or so, this blog will also have a new address, so keep on the lookout for that announcement. I decided that it was finally time to put the sociological imagination phase behind me and more fully embrace the academic within! (ha!) Maybe it was also an attempt to convince myself that I really am (becoming) a scholar. At least that's what I'm doing right now.
It was so nice to be with K & E. They are the kind of friends that you are just at ease with. No pretending. No posturing. No contriving anything. It's comforting. We had some nice times just catching up talking, laughing, eating, etc. We also managed to get in some really fun activities during our very short stay - like our trip to an old mill town and a fruitful stop by Daedalus Books, a dangerous place for the four of us. Joshua and I managed to make it out with only 3 new books. Phew. The place is so cheap we could've really added to our library, but our bookshelves are over-filled as it is! If you are ever in the area GO THERE!
I'm so glad that we took the time to go see our dear friends. It was refreshing. I needed it more than I realized.
This week, we are off to Milwaukee, WI for a few days. I'm on Spring Break and hope to get LOTS of reading done in the next three days before we leave. I also hope to post some of the interesting things I've been coming across in my reading, but that will have to wait for another day.
In the meantime, let me know what you think of the new blog.
5 comments:
I like the concept... except the blue stocking lady looks less scholarly, more hookery to me. If you are going to use the scholarly approach, change the pic.
The painting is by Egon Schiele, a 20th century German expressionist. She probably is a hooker. I chose this image for a few reasons:
1) I'm a fan of Schiele.
2) It fit nicely with the theme (after we 'blued' up the stockings a bit...they are green in the original).
3) Being a woman in the academy, even in this day and age takes a lot of navigation. It is a precarious situation. There really aren't many of us. For instance, the place were I have a fellowship - there are three women fellows and 14 men. I like the contradiction that this image represents for my theme. Yes, I am supposedly a scholar, but I am also a woman and there is still a strong contradiction there. As with any career, academics places demands on women that are antithetical to the 'traditional' demands of being a woman. There is an unavoidable friction in being a woman academic, even if that is only internal.
So, sorry, but the he-she-hooker like lady stays.
The hooker also creeps me out, in much the same way that Willam Dafoe creeped me out when he played a hooker in "Boondock Saints".
So... I'm confused- you're conflicted because being an academic is frustrating your desire as a woman to have sex for money? That's tough. Here is my solution- go whore it up for a few months, call it "research", and then publish something sociological about skanking it up. It's a win-win!
I love the new design. That said, I really wanted to make fun of the hooker man-woman, but it seems like that horse is beaten dead already. I think Jack's assessment is great, and that Willem Dafoe is possibly the ugliest woman ever, followed closely by David Bowie.
I like the new blog layout, especially the color scheme. I hope you're doing well.
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