Tuesday Morning, a few weeks later March 27, 2007

sunshine, the first slants of spring light!  love it, mood uplift.

The mountain of work is steadily becoming summitted!  I finished the “Girl Culture” paper and just finished my last edits of it so it is ready to leave my hands.  I put a lot of love into that paper: a critique of the startling and evocative Lauren Greenfield photos that I feel reproduce a normative girl culture (that is white, able bodied, heterosexual, middle class and femme-y).  All the young women and girls in the collection really “emphasize” their femininity and heterosexuality.  Also the discourses that circulate the collection mainly from the preface by historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg replicate the young women in perpetual crisis which creates the representation of young women as the crisis itself.

Now I am working on a conference paper for our big graduate conference that I have helped organize as well on April 18th.  The paper is about what has inspired my Ph.D topic on young women and their relationship to feminism.  So the paper is about my trajectory into feminism (what made me a feminist) and my definition of feminism, as well as data from my Master’s study where many of the young women who are mother’s talked about their relationship to feminism, their uneasiness with the term but their political identities.  I am excited to write it, I have it all outlined, as I see it as a more creative writing project and a good entry point as I have yet to do the research.

So after April 23 when the conference is over, my teaching is over (until Jan 2008) and my marking is done I will be back to self-directed mode of reading, note-taking and studying for October exams.  I cannot let the sun distract me too much, I have to make a schedule or two of twenty

Aside from school, I am feeling better.  I was in a funk, of stressed-out blues, but I am feeling better.  Took time for me, thought many things through, and had a lovely little Victoria (Brentwood Bay) getaway with Lorne last weekend.  We had a day of pale sun and went for long walks and talked all through the days, it was lovely.  We went to REBAR which was wonderful, had an eggwhite omlette with apple and rosemary and it was wonderful, have to make it at home.  We also saw Sandra Bernhard and I am still laughing from the amazing show.  She sang, she amused, she was smart, she was smutty, she was there in all her glory.  Oh and I won seven dollars on the Jade Monkey penny machine at the casino, all good.

Off to the gym now and then I have the post-colonial theory class until 6pm, though only three more to go! So excited.

More soon, I promise

A

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