I'm Finished! Oh, But Wait... There's More...

Winter! At least now I don't have to feel too bad about staying inside all day... reading and writing... all day...

But at least I get a pretty view - I call this "Winter Scene...With Cat (and counterforce security stickers)"


I am now officially finished the term. The three papers I wrote in the last two weeks:

- The Intersectionality of Diasporic Consciousness: Language and Symbolic Violence in Dionne Brand's "Dialectics"

- Fake News, Real Journalism: Political Satire and the Challenge to Mainstream News Media

- Rendering Horror: Visual Capture and the Anxieties of the Real in "The Ring"

The only thing I have left to do (yeah, it's not over yet) is finish the two proposals for my PhD application, write two statements of purpose and drop off my applications in Montreal on Monday- now that is going to be fun. Hello Montreal!

There have been fun times in the midst of all this insanity though - in place of the last class with Giroux, he invited us to his home for a party! We had a bunch of amazing snacks and drank 'grad student' wine (i.e. surprisingly cheap for how good it is).


Abigail (who makes wicked folksy-mellow music) and Amanda


Shekufeh, Katherine and Vinh


Jenny, Amanda's guy and Amanda

The intrepid Henry Giroux



And the group - not everyone could make it but we'll be getting together again next term, periodically, for an informal reading course on biopolitics, which is gonna be wicked!

For now, more work (so close!) but after Tuesday it's uber-relaxation time...