I like my chiro­practor. I missed my appoint­ment yes­ter­day for a vari­ety of reas­ons (I see her three times a week) and so my back, hip and leg were really sore. Today, after she had tried four times unsuc­cess­fully to fix the prob­lem, she announced “this sacrum is…

Well, well. My super­visor just sent me an e‑mail: “I’m happy with the thesis struc­ture and shape, includ­ing the con­clu­sion. I’d like you to tune and polish and submit. I’m happy to have a final run through, but it would simply be for expres­sion errors, typos. I hope…

The ever-present ques­tion “so what do I do next?” just got even more com­plic­ated with this job advert­ise­ment. Last night, I went to see the Gus Van Sant movie Ele­phant with my gor­geous Thea. It was very inter­est­ing, one of those med­it­a­tions on a slice of life, almost…

Con­duc­ted cul­tural raids on inner-city stores by demand­ing to know whether the clothes I was buying were made in sweat­shops, and asking for the com­pany’s work­place guidelines. I know they were and that I’m a hypo­crite, but right now, I’m low on time and money. Haul:…

Thanks to all who helped with my research ques­tions a while back. I just spoke to Tony Ayres, dir­ector of Walk­ing on Water, and it is indeed a Hun­garian ‘debre­cener’ saus­age that Anna is cook­ing on the barbie and it is indeed designed to demon­strate her cultural…

Here’s the tran­script of my inter­view with Homi Bhabha.… It’s 7000 words long, broken into five pages… and it’s pretty much the full tran­script. The only thing I don’t tran­scribe is ums and ahs. When I’ve fin­ished my thesis, I think I’ll add a new sec­tion to my…

Non­ethe­less, I thought I’d share with you a fant­astic resource I just dis­covered: http://​www​.aus​trali​an​polit​ics​.com/

*The* art­icle is avail­able for your delect­a­tion… *grin* I’m really happy with it, although when you see the tran­script, you’ll wonder at some of the decisions of what to include and what to leave out. Whee!! I’d love to know what you think of it…

Feel like help­ing out a pathetic Mas­ters stu­dent who is having a label crisis? For those who’ve just joined the dis­cus­sion, my thesis is about ‘sub­jectiv­ity’ (how we come to call ourselves ‘I’ and what that means, who we think we ‘are’) in mul­tiply mar­ginal people…

Wow, that’s been a hectic couple of days and I’ve mostly been on adren­alin, since I gave up caf­feine a few months ago (which reminds me… Mum? If I forget to actu­ally ask you this in person, could you please stop the coffee deliv­er­ies for now…thanks). The talk at…

Just had a phone call from the PR person from the Centre for Post­co­lo­nial Writ­ing at Monash. Homi Bhabha said the inter­view was “bril­liant” yes­ter­day and he really enjoyed it and could I join them early tonight for drinks? *gah*

I can’t believe I just inter­viewed Homi Bhabha. I am com­pletely hyped and in awe. We dis­cussed glob­al­isa­tion, truth and recon­cili­ation com­mis­sions and their rela­tion to nar­rat­ive (his next book is called ‘the right to nar­rate’), issues of trans­la­tion and culture,…