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The parcels arrived, one of which was rather strung together by the Royal Mail. I think it's all there.
The LGBT colloquium went well, as well as anything can go when no one has actually read any of the books you've talked about, not even the person who talked about Paul Magrs before you. The university announced that we've signed up to the Stonewall directive, which means we've agreed not to discriminate against LGBTs. I presume there's some best practice going on here, because the law says we've not meant to discriminate already. Still, there's discrimination and discrimination.
I turned three of the four sheets of notes that constituted my talk at ICFA last year into a paper - well 14 PowerPoint slides - and added a couple of things from Bukatman and the Book of Samuel. I rather slid over the Lego retelling of the Life of David, but I now realise there were a lot more useful iamges there. Since then I've wanted to move it into a written paper, but other work has intervened. I need to read a Doctor Who novel - by Paul Magrs and his partner (who I'm misremembering as Jonathan Hoag) - for the next draft.
I realised I'm talking about gay- rather than lesbian-themed narratives, but this definition is going to have to be very loose, as the number of gay-themed Young Adult sf and fantasy novels is rather low. I gather there were 300 gay- and lesbian-themed Young Adult novels between c.1968 and c.1996, with two thirds of them being in the second half, but it's still a short list of genre interest. I'm going to bring in Teen Wolf and its mirror, "Phases", and The Nature of Nicolas, if I can track down a copy.
Meanwhile this weekend I edited three chapers, 15,000 words, and checked the date of every book or film mentioned. I also bashed my head against the style guide which notes that it is ed. but not eds. nor edn., ch. but not chs., vol. but not vols., and thus is Mr and Dr not Mr. and Dr. - only the film is called Dr. No, Dr. Jekyll etc.
I lost Saturday morning to sleep - but the rugby meant I avoided the pub until 10pm. However, I also had to write or revise three lectures this weekend, and I thought I'd a) lost the material I needed from lectures from about five years ago, and b) deleted any of the versions with graphics. I still need to sort out a pile of DVDs. I did relax, a bit, by watching the final episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm season five, and part of An Evening with Kevin Smith II: Evening Harder, the final episode of Primaeval, most of Torchwood and all of ER.
Now I need to read the contents of one of the parcels. Sunday nights seem to have a 3am bedtime - not smart with a 9am start, and I won't even get a lie-in on Tuesday as I have to be there for 9am, and Wednesday for 10am. And dammit, there's an exam paper to write.
The LGBT colloquium went well, as well as anything can go when no one has actually read any of the books you've talked about, not even the person who talked about Paul Magrs before you. The university announced that we've signed up to the Stonewall directive, which means we've agreed not to discriminate against LGBTs. I presume there's some best practice going on here, because the law says we've not meant to discriminate already. Still, there's discrimination and discrimination.
I turned three of the four sheets of notes that constituted my talk at ICFA last year into a paper - well 14 PowerPoint slides - and added a couple of things from Bukatman and the Book of Samuel. I rather slid over the Lego retelling of the Life of David, but I now realise there were a lot more useful iamges there. Since then I've wanted to move it into a written paper, but other work has intervened. I need to read a Doctor Who novel - by Paul Magrs and his partner (who I'm misremembering as Jonathan Hoag) - for the next draft.
I realised I'm talking about gay- rather than lesbian-themed narratives, but this definition is going to have to be very loose, as the number of gay-themed Young Adult sf and fantasy novels is rather low. I gather there were 300 gay- and lesbian-themed Young Adult novels between c.1968 and c.1996, with two thirds of them being in the second half, but it's still a short list of genre interest. I'm going to bring in Teen Wolf and its mirror, "Phases", and The Nature of Nicolas, if I can track down a copy.
Meanwhile this weekend I edited three chapers, 15,000 words, and checked the date of every book or film mentioned. I also bashed my head against the style guide which notes that it is ed. but not eds. nor edn., ch. but not chs., vol. but not vols., and thus is Mr and Dr not Mr. and Dr. - only the film is called Dr. No, Dr. Jekyll etc.
I lost Saturday morning to sleep - but the rugby meant I avoided the pub until 10pm. However, I also had to write or revise three lectures this weekend, and I thought I'd a) lost the material I needed from lectures from about five years ago, and b) deleted any of the versions with graphics. I still need to sort out a pile of DVDs. I did relax, a bit, by watching the final episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm season five, and part of An Evening with Kevin Smith II: Evening Harder, the final episode of Primaeval, most of Torchwood and all of ER.
Now I need to read the contents of one of the parcels. Sunday nights seem to have a 3am bedtime - not smart with a 9am start, and I won't even get a lie-in on Tuesday as I have to be there for 9am, and Wednesday for 10am. And dammit, there's an exam paper to write.
