Ah, the great wire­less world. At Heath­row, Intel has hung signs every­where, pro­claim­ing that we should sit down, log on and unwire. Of course, sit­ting under the signs does noth­ing. The BAA staff know noth­ing. I am reduced to boot­ing Mac­Stum­bler and divin­ing for…

Anti­cip­a­tion. Excite­ment. Trep­id­a­tion. Intense moments of doubt fol­lowed by gig­gling. I have two cute men here (apo­cra­ph­ilia and Jack, about to be induc­ted to the evil that is LJ), cud­dling and making jokes. Thea has just arrived. I am yet to find the address of an…

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Can I just say I really love how every media con­fer­ence I go to these days has WiFi so I can sit in these funky lec­tures and work­shops and still post this to you? So. the_christian, hawkeye, dr_nic, check out this online graphic novel: Killer. Just watched a very…

So, I think I may have just done some­thing a little… odd. I showed my super­visor how to find this journal (hi Jeff!). It’s mainly so he can keep up with my mus­ings while I’m over­seas… He cur­rently has a very pre­lim­in­ary draft of the thing. I cur­rently have a leave…

It’s get­ting a little too close… I’ll be leav­ing for Europe for 15 weeks on June 23. I am sub-let­ting my gor­geous apart­ment but I have only got ten­ants for the first 5 weeks I’m away. I’m look­ing for ten­ants for the fol­low­ing peri­ods: week 6 – week 10: monday july…

So, I did actu­ally spend most of the day work­ing on the thesis as I’d hoped to… but I find to my horror that I’ve only done 6000 words. Sure it’s not a real thesis (it’s part of a Mas­ters by Course­work so it only has to be 16,000 words long) but my timeline says I…

So, I said I’d post an invite to people for drinks and then I got busy… I pro­pose tonight at The Lounge for the con­tinu­ation of Wel­come the_christian to Mel­bourne week. I’m having dinner with thorfy and appar­ently a perky cute red­head goth from Seattle so how’s 9pm?…

So, Secret Life Of Us kindly provided me with an expli­cit dis­cus­sion of sexual iden­tity versus sexual prac­tice. in bed. MIRANDA is lying down, CHLOE is sit­ting up strok­ing her hair. MIRANDA: Have you ever been in love before? CHLOE: I went out with a girl at school…

I thought some of you might be inter­ested in this: http://​www​.nytimes​.com/​2​0​0​3​/​0​5​/​1​1​/​n​a​t​i​o​n​a​l​/​1​1​P​A​P​E.html I know you all *hate* read­ing the Times Online because you have to register and log in but this one is 10 pages long so I can’t post it. And it’s worth it. A…

I was just telling dr_zero that I’ve been too depressed to write poetry but I’m get­ting better now and he said that poetry comes after, when you’re motiv­ated enough to write about how bad it was. This is very raw, and not very good, but that’s to be expec­ted after a…

I had no idea just how much my Chupa Chup pleas­ure was in the sen­sa­tion of suck­ing until I got this one. It has a hole in it, all the way through, so when you suck it you just get air and not that nice suction‑y feel­ing. Peh. Oh, and hawk_eye? Not a word from you,…

So, I went to see my super­visor, and he said: stop wor­ry­ing about your abil­ity to do this and just start doing it. Grumble. So, we’ve nar­rowed the texts down to _Walking on Water_ and _Secret Life of Us_ as the key texts, with com­par­is­ons to _Head On_ and probably…

Not entirely cer­tain work­ing on this thesis is good for a person losing their grip on real­ity. Oh well. Today’s thoughts: uncer­tainty is one of the key exper­i­ences in a world of cap­it­al­ist post-mod­ern­ity (cf Bau­mann, Ang). We create strategies to deal with the ongoing…