Monday, February 13, 2006
A New Way to Procrastinate
If my posting is a little more sparse in the next while, it's because I have a whole new source of procrastination sitting next to me: Ky! We're sitting next to each other on the futon, Ky in her poncho and I in a bridesmaid dress, each "working" on our respective laptops. We've already driven to the top of Mt. Doug and looked at pretty skylines and fondued anything that would be fondued. Today, I'm going to take her along with me to the University (where I have to do photocopying), and -- provided we get some real work done in the next while (curse you, Derrida readings!) -- we're going to bus downtown for some shenanigans. We'll have to take pictures. (Although not of Ky: we're going to try to preserve her super-secret identity from you potential internet stalkers. Let me just tell you, she's well worth the stalking.)
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I hear you on the Derrida readings.
It's taking me to between a day and a week to decode every paragraph, but it's so worth it, every time.
Jonathan Culler helps.
Wait . . . why are you reading Derrida? Don't they forbid that sort of behavior amongst history people?
Hi, this is Excited Young Man (You will find me in the archives of December 1, 2005).
Is this the Ky that is supposed to be my soulmate? And if so, who else is stalking her on the internet. Do I need to fight someone for her honour?
Ky, since you are around, maybe we could meet and talk about snow?
Oh, the awesomeness.
And Bernie, we actually have to read Derrida and Foucault for my historiography class. My professor finds this to be necessary, and is bothered by historians who just dismiss Derrida by claiming that he ruins everything, taking everything we've written and "deconstructing" it as meaningless.
A bunch of the students in this class are hilariously uncomfortable with this. I'm finding that I'm having an easier time reading Foucault, and that the reading of Derrida is taking way too long for something that I have to discuss this afternoon, but I think I get enough parts that I won't sound stupid. And I love that then we're taking these issues and discussing controversies about gender history. Go, Joy Parr, the Canadian post-structuralist socialist feminist historian! The Gender of Breadwinners is awesome.
By the way, Excited Young Man, you're my favourite.
"Excited Young Man," aka SHANNON: NOT funny. Just kidding. Actually I laughed pretty hard.
Ky, what are you talking about? I very much resent the accusation. I was on a flight from Phoenix at the time of the anonymous post.
(Or was I?)
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