there's shit on every hand you shook

new year's poll

2006-01-02T21:21:45Z

maybelater @ 2005-11-27T01:07:00

2005-11-27T07:14:34Z

I got my septum pierced on Friday.

Can I just say that I love Qui Qui at Kaliedescope? He's an excellent piercer and has a really excellent personality and demeanor for his occupation. The actual piercing wasn't very painful, but the site has been a little achy and sensitive since the piercing. If the barbell gets bumped or jostled, I can definitely feel it for a few minutes. I didn't have any sort of cold before I got it done, but now I seem to have the perma-sniffles, which makes everything in my nose like a burning ring of fire. Snot + nose piercings = a bad idea. Not that the combination can be helped because, obviously, it's the nose's function to produce snot and such, but still.

I lost a ball off the barbell last night at the movies, so I had to go in today and get it replaced. I have to go back tomorrow because I chose a barbell that is too small and I can't flip it up like I'm supposed to be able to. Since I've already been back once and I hate bothering people, I'm dreading it. Hopefully, he'll be able to hook me up with the next size bigger and send me on my way.

photographic evidence (excuse the fact that I'm not looking right at the camera; I look semi-retarded when I do):

It should also be said that moving is a giant, giant pain in the ass.

The end.

It's Friday!

2005-07-22T11:24:34Z

View Poll: Your biggest musical guilty pleasure?

maybelater @ 2005-07-15T05:58:00

2005-07-15T10:59:35Z

pes·si·mism Pronunciation Key (ps-mzm)
n.

1. A tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view: “We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach” (Margo Jones).
2. The doctrine or belief that this is the worst of all possible worlds and that all things ultimately tend toward evil.
3. The doctrine or belief that the evil in the world outweighs the good.

[French pessimisme(on the model of French optimisme, optimism), from Latin pessimus, worst. See ped- in Indo-European Roots.]
pessi·mist n.
pessi·mistic adj.
pessi·misti·cal·ly adv.

View Poll: eternal pessimist

maybelater @ 2005-07-12T07:26:00

2005-07-12T12:26:36Z

View Poll: stolen

maybelater @ 2005-04-23T05:44:00

2005-04-23T10:48:16Z

I was looking through the birthday function on livejournal because it's late (or early, depending on how one were to look at it) and I'm bored. Two people on my list share a birthday with me! supercrush and etc. Odd, since I grew up thinking that, while there are a ton of December birthdays, not many people shared the actual date.

suzanne somers

2005-04-06T11:57:48Z

This is one of the many reasons why I love vfc's journal.

kitty pile!

2005-02-01T01:00:21Z

maybelater @ 2004-04-14T23:08:00

2004-04-15T04:10:34Z

Amy Sedaris is on Letterman right now and I think she's been smoking crack. She's usually not quite that random--she was just telling Dave about her imaginary boyfriend and child. Weird.

maybelater @ 2004-04-12T09:28:00

2004-04-12T14:30:16Z

Another announcement for my student group. If you live in Mpls, come and check out some of these events. They're all free except the concert, which is $5 for non-students and free for U of M students with ID.

RATH WEEK
Revolutionary Art Thing
April 12-16

This year, WSAC's Revolutionary Art Thing will focus on music and social
justice. During the week of April 12-16 we will have a series of events
examining the power of music in social change. All events are free unless
otherwise noted.

RATH Kick-Off
Monday, April 12, 12-1 PM
Coffman 202
Please join us for a lunch break with lots of food and good times. We will
be screening the film Grrlyshow by Kara Herold (2000), which examines
zines, music, and alternative forms of media

Check it While I Wreck It
Tuesday, April 13, 12-1 PM
Coffman 319
Lecture by Gwendolyn Pough, U of M faculty member, who recently published:
"Check it While I Wreck It: Black
Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere." Professor Pough will
address "the ways in which Black women use the counter-public sphere of
hip-hop culture to claim a voice for themselves and influence the ways in
which Black women are represented in the male dominated space of Hip-Hop
culture and the larger US society."

Workshop: "Punk on a Shoestring"
Wednesday, April 14, 8 PM
presented by Kim and Jenny of Eufio.
In this hands-on event, Kim and Jenny from Eufio will talk about how to get your punk band off the ground.

Rock Concert
Thursday, April 15 , 7 PM
the Whole Music Club (basement of Coffman Union)
Free for U students, $5 for non-U guests
Please join us for an amazing line-up of hot local music. This showcase
features local bands: Running on Empty, Coach
Said Not To, Eufio, Luke's Angels, and Ellis.

maybelater @ 2004-04-06T20:53:00

2004-04-07T01:54:03Z

In Minneapolis, with an antenna you somehow get about six religious channels, the home shopping network, and four other channels (NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC). Usually the religious channels are pretty entertaining. For example:

Tonight I watched a snippet about the "healing powers" of charcoal, hosted by a bunch of pseudo-doctors and "lifestyle counselors" that work at the Uchee Pines Institute. None of the presenters appeared comfortable in front of the camera and the set decor was reminiscent of a Country Kitchen restaurant about 10-15 years ago, if those existed then. Most of their "evidence" was presented in the form of anecdotes, none of which were particularly convincing.

Plus, the information and pictures provided on their website remind me of the place Julianne Moore goes at the end of Safe. Creepy.

maybelater @ 2004-03-25T09:35:00

2004-03-25T15:35:36Z

If you're not busy and you live in the Twin Cities Area, come see this movie tonight:

Righteous Babes, Directed by Pratibha Parmar
TONIGHT, 7:00 PM
Room 202, Coffman (student union) on the U of M Campus
Free!
Parking available in the east river road garage right behind the student center.

"In this accomplished documentary, acclaimed filmmaker Pratibha Parmar (A Place of Rage, Warrior Marks) explores the intersection of feminism with popular music, focusing on the role of female recording artists in the 1990s and their influence on modern women. Parmar argues that, far from being dead, feminism has thrived and expanded its reach through the direct, aggressive, and revolutionary medium of rock music, and through the role models of performers like Madonna and Ani DiFranco. Intercuting performance footage with interviews, Parmar explores her thesis with some of the most outspoken female musicians, feminist theorists, and journalists of the UK and US, including Sinead O’Connor, Skin (Skunk Anansie), Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders), Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco, Camille Paglia, and Gloria Steinem. The Righteous Babes offers a searing and timely critique of the commercialization of feminism through 'Girl Power' Spice Girls style, ditzy Ally McBeal and her trans-Atlantic counterpart, Bridget Jones. With critical insight and candidness, this powerful and timely documentary demonstrates the vibrancy and relevance of feminism to women and young girls today. Essential viewing for feminists, post-feminists and anti-feminists alike."
from Women Make Movies.

maybelater @ 2004-03-02T18:19:00

2004-03-03T00:20:14Z

I want today to be over right now.

maybelater @ 2004-03-01T10:36:00

2004-03-01T16:36:36Z

I just got some information on what sounds like my dream program for a master's degree.

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MA in Gender Studies
School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

The MA in Gender Studies at SOAS is a unique programme, its
principal aim being to re-focus issues of Western gender studies on
the complex specificities of Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Drawing on the expertise of staff across two SOAS faculties, it
offers the specialised study of gender in relation to the cultures
of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, together with rigorous training
in, and questioning of, contemporary gender theory. In terms of
gender theory, it offers a solid foundation with sufficient breadth
and depth to facilitate a range of specialist pathways. In terms of
specialisation, it draws on the expertise of internationally
recognised scholars of Asian, African, and Middle EasternStudies at
SOAS.

The programme is structured in the same way as most SOAS MA degrees:
students take three taught courses and complete a dissertation. All
students take the compulsory course Gender Theory and the Study of
Asia and Africa. Further options include a wide range of gender and
gender-related courses from a comprehensive list offered by the
Faculties of Languages and Cultures and Arts and Humanities (see
below). Students will write a 10,000 word dissertation based on
either the compulsory course or one of the component courses. They
will have access to a wealth of study resources available in the
SOAS Library and in nearby institutions such as the British Library,
University College London Library and Senate House Library.

Prospective students should contact the Programme Convenor (Sian
Hawthorne: sh79@soas.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7898 4774) at an early stage
of their application in order to seek advice on the most appropriate
options for study.

Structure of the MA in Gender Studies
---------------------------------------

The MA in Gender Studies takes the standard form of MA programmes at
SOAS, comprising four elements (three taught courses plus a
dissertation). The programme may be taken over one year full-time,
or two or three years part-time.

Course Options
----------------

All students take FOUR elements, as follows:

1. Gender Theory and the Study of Asia and Africa (Compulsory course)
The aim of this course will be to offer a historical and critical
survey of contemporary gender theory in order to explore the
challenge of gender studies for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural
research. It will further examine the interface between gender
theory and a variety of other theoretical perspectives applied to
the study of Asia and Africa, including postcolonialism, critical
theory, and poststructuralism. The course will also investigate
central questions of epistemology and methodology in relation to the
application of gender theories in the field of cross-cultural
studies. Students will be introduced to feminist and gender theory
research methods and hermeneutics in order to develop research and
interpretive skills for undertaking their own quantitative and
qualitative research.

Core Topics:

* Historical perspectives on gender and gender theory
* Feminist theory and gender theory: intersections and departures
* Gendering subjectivity: Jacques Lacan and the structure of the
unconscious
* Gendering sexuality: Michel Foucault and knowledge/power
* Feminist theory and Foucault
* Writing gender: Hélène Cixous and l'écriture feminine
* 'Philosophy in the feminine': Luce Irigaray and sexual difference
* Transgressing gender: Julia Kristeva and the sujet en procès
* Performing gender: Judith Butler and the politics of gendering
* Queer Theory: Changing the subject
* The politics of representation
* Gender theory and cross-cultural inquiry: Theorising the 'Third World'
* Gender, race and ethnicity
* Gendering Orientalism
* Feminism and postcolonial theory: Cartographies of struggle
* Gender theory and subaltern studies
* Gender and diaspora
* Rethinking gender with non-Western theory

TWO courses drawn from 2 to 4 below.

2. SOAS courses with an explicit focus on gender (other options may
be available--please check with the Programme Convenor)

* Issues in the anthropology of gender (Anthropology background
recommended) (0.5) (15PANH024)
* Issues in psychoanalysis and anthropology (0.5) (15PANH032)
* Cultural understandings of health (15PANC093)
* End of Empire in the Middle East and the Balkans (15PHIC004)
* Theory and Method in the study of religions (15PSRC010)
* Orthodoxy and gender in Indian traditions (15PSRC002)
* Gender, postcolonialism and the study of religions (15PSRC037)
* Theory and techniques of comparative literature (15PSAC279)
* Modern Japanese Literature (0.5) (15PEAH004)
* Pre-modern Japanese Literature I (15PEAC023)
* Indian Cinema (0.5 each) (15PSAH001/2)
* Literatures of South Asia (15PSAC284)
* Social and Political Dimensions of Modern Arab Literature (15PNMC347)
* Survey of Korean Literature (15PEAC054)
* Japanese cinema (0.5) (15PEAH008)
* Modern trends in Islam (15PNMC228)
* South East Asia on Screen (0.5) (15PSEH004)
* Cinema in South East Asia (0.5) (15PSEH003)
* The Comparative Literature of SEAsia (15PSEC026)

3. Language courses (subject to availability)

* Amharic
* Ancient Near Eastern languages (Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian)
* Arabic
* Burmese
* Cambodian (Khmer)
* Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese)
* Hausa
* Hebrew
* Hindi
* Indonesian/Malay (Bahasa)
* Japanese
* KiSwahili
* Korean
* Nepali
* Persian
* Sanskrit
* Somali
* Thai
* Tibetan Turkish
* Urdu
* Vietnamese
* Yoruba

4. Gender-related courses offered at University College London (UCL)
Subject to agreement between SOAS and UCL

* Gender in Modernity (Stephanie Bird)
* Feminist Issues in Israeli Women's Writing (Tsila Ratner)
* Selected Topics in Contemporary Israeli Literature (Tsila Ratner)
* Gender and Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Writing
(Helena Forsas-Scott)
* Cultural Dilemmas (Stephen Hart)
* Current Issues in the Study of Gender and Sexuality (Nanneke Redclift)
* Gender and Archaeology (Ruth Whitehouse et al)
* Cultures of AIDS in France: history, Policy and Representation (James
Agar)
* Gender and Human Settlements Policy and Planning (Caren Levy)

5. Dissertation (in Gender Studies with a regional or specific
disciplinary focus. This must be supervised by a member of SOAS
staff).

Assessment
------------

Each taught course in the MA has its own approved methods of
assessment, designed to address the particular learning outcomes of
that course. Assessment methods may include essays, unseen, seen or
take-home examinations, research projects, individual or group
presentations, translations, learning journals, language tests etc.,
as appropriate. An overall percentage mark is awarded for each
course, based on the marks awarded for individual assessment items
within the course.

The MA Gender Studies may be awarded at the level of pass, merit or
distinction. Regulations governing the award of the MA Gender
Studies are those governing all such MA Programmes in the School.
Details are provided annually in the SOAS Postgraduate Taught
Masters Handbook.

Contacts and Further Information
----------------------------------

Please contact Sîan Hawthorne (sh79@soas.ac.uk; 020 7898 4774) to
discuss any queries regarding the programme in the first instance.

Online application forms are available at:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/prospectus-pg/pgapplicationform.pdf

Instructions for applying for the MA Programme are available at:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/studying/index.cfm?navid=490

Information about SOAS is available at:
http://www.soas.ac.uk

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

maybelater @ 2004-02-27T00:26:00

2004-02-27T06:27:08Z

gross

maybelater @ 2004-02-25T21:35:00

2004-02-26T03:35:29Z

I was searching for biographical information about Roland Barthes, as a way to further procrastinate while writing an essay about Mythologies, when I found this article instead, which some of you may be interested in:

The Myth of Foucault's Head

maybelater @ 2004-02-25T12:08:00

2004-02-25T18:12:05Z

Once again, my upstairs neighbor is doing an exercise video or something of the sort, and once again, the ceiling above my room sounds as though it's going to cave in at any second.

maybelater @ 2004-02-22T15:50:00

2004-02-22T21:53:08Z

IM from my sister:
" aunt doe doe called this afternoon to see if i wanted to go to the 'monologues vagina' when it comes to town."

maybelater @ 2004-02-16T22:21:00

2004-02-17T04:23:01Z

I sat next to this guy on the plane from Springfield to Memphis today. He's an ass.

maybelater @ 2004-01-20T09:44:00

2004-01-20T15:44:59Z

Classes start today.

Yuck.

yeah

2004-01-15T20:02:32Z

You know it's probably about time for school to start up again when you're thinking of cleaning the fish tank for a little afternoon excitement.

maybelater @ 2003-12-21T12:45:00

2003-12-21T18:47:39Z

Sometimes I f*cking hate my family.

I just got yelled at and reprimanded at the dinner table for a.) taking the lord's name in vain (three times) and b.) telling my sister to fuck off because she was talking about a zit on my face.

maybelater @ 2003-12-15T22:20:00

2003-12-16T04:19:12Z

One more paper left to write, and it's due tomorrow at 12:30.

maybelater @ 2003-12-14T23:30:00

2003-12-15T05:29:14Z

I just realized that I signed little_chrissy up for gothic_babes because I got an email about it one day, but I must have inadvertently signed my own journal up for the community instead.

oops.

these are seeing me through finals week

2003-12-14T21:38:45Z