Saw super­visor. Super­visor says if I fill in the gaps I’ve noted as it stands, this thing is worth a dis­tinc­tion. How­ever, if I fill in the gaps *and* fix up the mess up the front where I’ve failed to clearly state a research ques­tion and instead have rambled on for…

Gotta love Neil Gaiman’s blog (offi­cial­gai­man). From this BBC art­icle. Dr Knap­man said there was not enough evid­ence to rule in or out sui­cide, murder or a sexual act gone wrong. Mr Lancelyn Green was found in his bed, sur­roun­ded by cuddly toys and a bottle, after a…

Was flip­pant too soon. Read this art­icle by Pamela Bone about the treat­ment of women in Pakistan. I don’t agree with her con­clu­sion that “Amer­ica is not the enemy” but I cer­tainly agree that too great a focus on the US means that inter­na­tional pro­test­ers are left…

Silly minor gripe for the morn­ing. Female should be the adject­ive and woman the noun. So I don’t want to see “women con­tenders” in an Age art­icle about can­did­ates for the Family Law Court. Nor do I want to hear “It was because she was a female.” I know, I know. There…

I added a page to my photo albums. It’s of the Holo­caust Memorial in Sydney that I wrote the plaque for in 1996. I’ll get back to the thesis now…

Today is the first day of my new two-day-a-week research assist­ant job (short term con­tract for three months or so). That means I’m now teach­ing at Mel­bourne Uni on Mondays, spend­ing Tues­day and Wed­nes­day on my thesis, Thursday and Friday as an RA at RMIT and spending…

Have cut up the thesis, pasted it back together, pasted in bits and quotes from all over the place, it’s all a bit crazy… But the word count is encour­aging, even if it does include stuff I can’t really count, like notes to myself to rewrite sec­tions… At this…

While I was away, the delight­ful Jezebel got her­self a skin infec­tion of some kind. The vet says she’s never seen any­thing quite like it and noth­ing’s show­ing up under the micro­scope. I’ve got two weeks’ worth of anti­bi­ot­ics to give her and I need to get her something…

Lath-daddy prom­ises more bling-bling for the yoof of Aus­tralia come elec­tion time, inter­est­ingly con­tras­ted to this story by Simon Castles on what the yoof of Aus­tralia really need.

Another “what I did on my hol­i­days” post. I’ve had quite a week. During the days, I’ve been work­ing on my thesis and mark­ing stu­dent assign­ments. During the even­ings, I’ve been swan­ning around with a dash­ing young bar­ris­ter. Lots of fun. Friday night I caught up with…

One of the (uned­ited) mus­ings I dis­cussed in the last post: A rewrit­ten Jewish prac­tice is only pos­sible, iron­ic­ally, with an immer­sion and under­stand­ing of tra­di­tional Jewish prac­tice, which excludes so many of us who feel unwanted or unne­ces­sary as women and queers.…