Even More Notes of Randomness...

Things I've been doing/thinking about lately...

I've started working on my paper again lately, trying to synthesize my thoughts on N. Katherine Hayles’ posthumanism, Donna Haraway’s cyborg politics, Judith Butler’s coalitional politics, and how these ideas play out in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl. Yesterday I started reading Anne Balsamo’s Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women, which is proving useful. I need to get a draft to my supervisor very soon.

I’m excited to be part of the planning committee for what I think will be an exciting conference – the Commons Conference, to be held April 28-30 in Victoria. Check out the CFP if you’re interested.

I’m TAing for an online course this term. It’s interested to observe the workings of an “online classroom” and think about how this differs from a traditional classroom...

Belle & Sebastian is going on tour! They’re one of the few bands I’ve liked consistently for the past seven or eight years, and so I was excited to acquire tickets for the Seattle show. (And by acquire I mean charge a slightly ridiculous amount of money to my credit card.)

I've started researching and planning again for a potential trip to Latin America. I'm hoping to volunteer and study Spanish, possibly starting at this school in Guatemala. If anyone has advice or ideas, I'd love to hear it...