I was in the State Lib­rary the other day and I saw that they have a writer’s week from now till May 16… and that Homi Bhabha, hybrid­ity theory super­star, was speak­ing, but that the ses­sion was sold out. Noooooo!! So, I did was any self-dis­respect­ing journ­al­ist would…

I finally felt like I was close enough to pull out those mar­ginal bits and put them in the mar­gins, so now I can do a real word count… And I’m 1000 words over. So, now it’s cut­ting and refin­ing. I feel like I have three thou­sand things I still haven’t said, but…

With ref­er­ence to last night’s dis­cus­sions, check out what the_christian said about war crimes. It’s pretty much what I was saying but with more vehe­mence, bit­ter­ness and actual examples. Except I wasn’t saying “it’s been worse in the past so we should­n’t be shocked”,…

Now start­ing to dream about thesis. This is Quite Dis­turb­ing. Am start­ing to ser­i­ously think about What Comes After. May even post a poll as I think I have too many options. Had a good break last night and went up to blithespir­it’s drinks at the Kelvin (hard to argue…

I love living in this coun­try for one thing: great, rel­at­ively cheap, very fresh food. I just made myself the most scrump­tious pump­kin and tofu red curry with bamboo shoots and baby corn, and warm roti wraps on the side. It took about 20 minutes all up, because the…

Here’s how I planned to spend today: 9.30am: duck up to petrol sta­tion to fill tyres with air 10am: appoint­ment with Chiro­practor 11am: drop in to ricky­buchanan’s place to pick up book 12ish: return books to Mel­bourne Uni Lib­rary. Lunch, maybe with my col­league Dale.…

This thing is really get­ting some­where now. I’m a little shell-shocked. Oh and for those who might have missed it: this is NOT a PhD. It’s a very small Mas­ters thesis. If I ever say I’m doing a PhD I want you all to take me out and get me very drunk until I remember…

29 days until the thesis is due. Had a good day of research and did a bit more ana­lysis of LJ com­munit­ies, espe­cially hapamafia and posted some­thing in queeraus­tralia asking about local edge iden­tity com­munit­ies. Going through and clear­ing up notes now. At one point…

And then there are the days when you find clear, coher­ent cri­tiques of what you’re attempt­ing, and you think, yes, these are exactly the doubts I have about my work, exactly the quer­ies that arise, exactly what I mean when I say: is what I’m doing enough, effective,…

““We had no sup­port, no train­ing what­so­ever, and I kept asking my chain of com­mand for cer­tain things, rules and reg­u­la­tions, and it just wasn’t hap­pen­ing,” Ser­geant Fre­d­er­ick said.” (The Age, today) Yeah, because you need someone else to tell you that it’s not OK to…

Sheesh. I’ve moved para­graphs around, rewrit­ten things, deleted duplic­a­tions and added a bunch of new quer­ies. I know it’ll be better, but because I didn’t actu­ally advance at all today (build in any of the other new mater­ial I have or read any fur­ther into Derrida’s…