The seminar was pretty good actually. My favourite bits were as follows:

- a young English Literature lecturer donning a deerstalker and curly pipe to suggest that William Wordsworth and Arthur Conan Doyle were cooler than Lord Byron;

- Erica Carter's suggestion that British and American celebrities are based in a concept of individual identity drawn from Locke whereas stars in 1930s Germany were based on a conception of the individual's rootedness in the nation drawn from Hegel;

- and Rachel Moseley's considerations on the difference between stardom and celebrity. Conclusion: stars are close yet distant; celebrities are just close.

i am me. i am free to change.

used to be how i signed my journal entry every birthday.
i forgot last year...

keep on growin', sista!
(or something less bullshit, perhaps)