Yay for fun uncles!! I just got off the phone with my mom--we were discussing the Iran protests and then moved onto today's Final Jeopardy question (we couldn't remember what it was, and since she hadn't deleted it off her dvr yet, she FF'd to see). I worried her when I mentioned that, upon looking at my pantry and fridge, I couldn't see anything I wanted to eat so I decided to have delivery. She thought I meant that I was getting groceries delivered; I was talking about getting Pad Thai delivered. Much cheaper and faster.
Rachel Maddow just had a wonderful young woman on for her Moment of Geek segment! A 14-year-old amateur astronomer, she's the youngest person to discover a supernova. Very self-assured, and she completely charmed Rachel.
Don't worry msbelle, you can come live with me. Of course, I'll be retired and living on a fixed income too, but that's okay.
My kids are so dang tired tonight. I think it's been a very long week for all of us.
"7 or 7:20"
Ha!
At some point today my apartment was without power (flashing clocks) and there are large tree branches down in my neighborhood. The cats don't seem traumatized though.
I just finished watching Chess in concert.
That is not my Chess.
IOChessNews, I got a kids book and a cheap set to teach the kids.
Decapitated and partially amputated rabbit on my inside doormat this morning. It's a bit . . . larger than the usual fare. I think maybe they might be working their way up to taking down a deer. Or me.
I just came downstairs to a thoroughly eviscerated box of kleenex.
Loki has issues with paper.
Ha! I love the Loki stories.
So my thesis adviser just rejected my general idea around assisted reproductive technology. Told me that the topic is outside of the scope of humanities. Isn't humanities general enough?!
I had to then begin to rework my idea which is now something like this:
My previous thesis idea was to look at early modern cookbooks to figure out what it said about women's literacy. They were very personal books, because women used those books to "transact" literacy, either by what was written in the book (handwriting practice/notes/etc), or how they were used and adapted (changes women made to advice/recipes etc.)
In some ways, looking at what women are currently writing about their experiences with assisted reproductive technologies (ART) is a modern day equivalent. The difference is the that women are primarily writing blogs now and not notes on in the margins for how to salt fish.
My interest in their writing is multifold: the topic is interesting to me because I have a personal connection. But also, what I'm most interested and perhaps what is most humanities-related is how women are writing about their experiences, what it says about their conceptions of their own "femaleness" or their own role in their own families, and why they are using this specific medium to express their ideas.
Sound more convincingly humanities related?
