Today’s revision putting off form of procrastination is reading the official website of The British Monarchy.
This happened at 5am this morning. We don’t know who did it but the bang was loud enough to wake me and Duarte up and now I’m in a grump because I had about an hours sleep last night.
I think I’m forgiving uni for taking an age to refit our shower after this; security were here a minute after we rang and someone was round here at half 6 covering over the broken glass so it was safe (and hoovering up our hallway), and the glaziers are supposed to be being sent round this afternoon. Should be all ok soon.
And Duarte is leaving in a couple of days. This makes me happy.
I do love Shirley Manson, and her interview on Woman’s Hour (about 24 minutes in) makes me love her more. If you want to get annoyed by Tony Parsons you should listen to the first bit, too.
(I don’t know why I listen to Woman’s Hour it annoys me a lot of the time)
Give Up by The Postal Service is one of the loveliest albums ever, and this is one of the loveliest songs ever.
Small, simple, safe price. Rise the wake and carry me with all of my regrets. This is not a small cut that scabs, and dries, and flakes, and heals. And I am not afraid to die; I’m not afraid to bleed and fuck and fight, I want the pain of payment. What’s left but a section of pygmy sized cuts. Much like a slew of a thousand unwanted fucks. Would you be my little cut? Would you be my thousand fucks? And make mark leaving space for the guilt to be liquid. To fill and spill over and under my thoughts. My sad, sorry, selfish cry out to the cutter. I’m cutting trying to picture your black, broken heart. Love is not like anything, especially a fucking knife!
Baby Boy: The Sociocultural Effects of Prolonged Male Adolescence
Check on It: The Gendered Dynamics of Male Spectatorship in Urban Public Spaces
Crazy in Love: The Diagnosis and Treatment of “Female Hysteria” During the Late Nineteenth Century
Naughty Girl: Disidentification and the Performance of Female Sexual Promiscuity
Cater 2 U: Female Subservience and the Reinforcement of Hegemonic Gendered Power Structures
Get Me Bodied: A Radical Critique of the Sex/Gender Binary
Freakum Dress: The Role of Consumerism in the Construction and Assertion of Female Sexuality
Videophone: Social Networking Technology and the Deconstruction of the Dominant Gaze
Run the World (Girls): Historical Perspectives on Global Female Leadership
Bills Bills Bills: The Dual-Income Model and the Reshaping of the Domestic Sphere
Soldier: The Hypermasculinization of U.S. Military Culture
Independent Women: Girl I Didn’t Know You Could Get Down (to Business in the Public Sphere and Still Be Expected to Perform Domestic Labor During the “Second Shift”) Like That
This is an accurate representation of me whilst writing my essay last night. I haven’t slept yet, but I’ve finished my essay, printed it out and handed it in! And I’ve also got books for my next essay.
Only 2000 words about the benefits and limitations of the dual role (as a participant and an observer) of a researcher undertaking ethnographic research and 2 exams until the end of year 1 now! Yay!
Stuff I find useful/interesting.
The Society Pages in general. Particularly the Sociology Lens and Sociological Images sections of it.
Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
http://socbooks.tumblr.com/ - has some good books with download links.
The rest of the stuff I have bookmarked isn’t publicly accessible, ohwell. I’m sure you can enjoy this little insight into how I waste time reading relevant to my subject(s) stuff on the internet to make me feel better about not writing my essays.
ALSO, WIGS starts on May 14th.
“[Emer O’Toole] revealed underarm beards that would have made Osama bin Laden proud.”
“Yikes, it was horrible. As were her hairy legs to match. Watching her I nearly parted company with my breakfast.”
“the only hair that belongs on a woman is on her head.”
“Hairiness is just unfeminine.”
“If only men knew the way to tell if a woman is losing interest in them is how often she has her bikini line waxed or shaves her legs.”
“Body hair is clear signal you’re not interested in sex — with him, anyway.”
(Of course! Any woman who doesn’t shave her legs is a lesbian…)
At the very end of her forthy-mouthed tirade she adds:“While I respect any woman’s right to establish her own relationship between her body and her body hair — even if that involves going on national TV looking like a gorilla — nothing will ever part me from my shaver, tweezers, waxes and beloved Epilady.”
Despite the fact that the rest of the article is anything but respectful of other people’s rights to do whatever the fuck they like with their own fucking body.
