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heya sprat, have just been looking around for more aussies on the site and found you.. anyways, come check out the SGAU group when you get the chance..

oh, and congrats on becoming and auntie..

catch ya..

Wow, yes indeed, that's a lot of pet names. What an awesome assortment.
I'm sending good-luck and healing vibes your way, though I imagine by now it's a little late! When I got my wisdom teeth out it was just one day of not being able to eat much... the first week I had braces though, I got so sick of ice-cream that I started trying to come up with crafty ways of eating vegetables. Blending a salad, however, is distinctly disgusting.

back. and GAH - what an evil surgery that is. when i had mine done i was allergic to the painkiller they gave me, so i ended up vomiting up the meds/liquids and bursting the stitches -- blood everywhere. gross. it all turned out just fine, of course, but man. hopefully you are feeling better and able to eat some semi-solids. if you eat it cheesecake is kind of soft and easy to eat, but its solid enough to make you feel fed.

good luck with the house hunt!! i love the change of moving -- a new place that is all clean and sparkling -- yay. however, one must find a place of love. which i now see sounds really dirty, but that is not how i meant it. hee.

Awww poor teethies! My girlfriend had all four removed at the same time about a month ago. She didn't get any stiches either. I thought thatb was wierd. Wierder, she had pretty much no pain. Which was good for me because a week later we could play again!

just popped by to say hi. hope yr hands are still happy & that work is going well.

Happy St. Patricks Day!

omg, yr hilarious. and EXACTLY. gah. i should have known when she balked at my growing it out that there was trouble brewing!

in fact after another hair oddessy today i ended up in a different salon where they were so horrified that they practically gave me a wake. i ended up getting about 5 inches of fried hair hacked off. now its kind of purple/dk brown and -- as you said -- geometrical. its cool - kinda shannon sossamyn - but not was i going for. ah, well, colour me punk as all get out. at least i didn't have to shave my head this time.

and did i misspell oddessy? it just looks wrong. hope yr studies are going famously!

edited to add - just saw yr new pics - so cute! you and butch are an absolutely darling couple. i must admit my favorite are the cheerleaders! ye gods, how much did i loooove the cheerleaders at my catholic school. i became one just to be near them.

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Wow, a PhD even - what are you getting it in?
Hmm, I've managed precisely one of those things, unless you count stickering bars for porn site advertisement!

heehee - i love the joke!! i've now begun spreading it among those in my dept ... ummm, that makes it sound like a disease - ew.

happy mardi gras indeed!!! yaaaaaay. hope you had a total blast. can't wait to hear about yr fun and adventures.

as for the family meeting - what a fabulous coordinated effort that must have been. how great. one of the few gf i ever introduced to my family ended in nothing less than a showdown btwn she & my mother. *shudder* so glad yr results are ever so much more civil.

until later --

You have the best MG pictures ever! How fun, I'm jealous, I want to go to a G&L Mardi Gras!

Ya know, I tend to find the dancing thing is far more indicative with females. Males, not so much, for them I tend to care more about what their hands and lips are doing than their hips. But definitely, when it comes to girls, bad dancing is as a big deal-breaker.
I gotta agree on the Queer Eye candidacy thing. I would love to be made over in the image of someone fashionable. And since they tend to work on guys, maybe it could turn out as something I could live with as a supreme tomboy.

absolutely hilarious! i told my philo prof the joke, and got a reluctant chuckle. this is a victory, b/c he thinks ps is rather fruity.

for a strictly fun read "The Girls Next Door" is sort of fun. Of course, I am always pushing "The Practice of Everyday Life". "Monster Beauty" is kind of cool.

ok, i must be in nerd overdrive, b/c using the "" instead of underlining is really bugging me. gah.

mmmmm, picture! i saw her speak a year or so ago - so hot, so much presence. plus, she totally decimated those who questioned her "right" to make certain statements - *hee*.

and WOW - you are in performance studies too? how completely exciting! i am in the ma/phd program for ps in the states. i teach undergraduates in various courses. the performance ethnography lesson is simply a component of the ps unit in a larger communications survey course. performance ethnography is all about participant observation, subjectivity and subjective ways of knowing, personal narrative, critical & self-reflexive performance, (re)locating the body in story, political performance, recording performativity in everyday life -- etc. i am specifically showing how anna devare smith embodies those she interviewed & shows all sides of the issue - both humanizing and problematizing the various dynamics at work in the la riots. in addition, i assigned a wonderful piece by dwight conquergood (a god among p ethnos) on the moral and ethical responsibilities of pe, especially how to avoid the 4 major pitfalls and work to create truly dialogic performance. it bears alot of similarity to oral history, at least methodologically, but it differs in strategy and use, i suppose. also, it differs from anthropological ethno in both intention and method, but i suspect you already know about this.

i'm not sure if any of that is clear, but since you do ps hopefully it is slightly coherent.

my (intended) specialty is body reclamation - how pple reclaim their bodies after trauma through "mutilating" acts such as tattoos, piercings, scarifications, and cutting. my project is still in its infancy, but for the ethno portion i plan to do interviews & take photos & recreate them in perf. i am doing a show this semester from my personal writing, which includes similar themes.

omg, how huge is this comment? ok, now what do you do in the ps world? what is your interest? influences?

Re JH: I saw her in 2001. She was great - totally made a conference I was at worthwhile for me. Esp 'cos she offered to read an essay of mine when we spoke... *sigh*

PS stuff - I'm in the PS program at Uni of Sydney. Our PhD programs differ greatly from those of the USA - the biggest difference being there's no coursework for us. I'm starting my 3rd year of what will end up taking me about 5, I think.

My work is on the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade (see link below) and discourses of community that circulate around this event. I am particularly interested in the embodied experience of pride - how the performance event impacts on people's notions of pride and how this is expressed as a committment to community/ies. It's particuarly interesting at the moment because the organising body of the Parade (and the wider month-long event) fell apart last year - major financial collapse. A new org came together to take it on and how they have attempted to define and regulate community has been v interesting.

I don't do any performance myself (too chicken-shit) but I do participate in the Parade each year and that is the methodological basis of my work so it ties in v tightly with what you are saying about PE.

I teach also - politics and performance (from Russian agit prop to recent street protests against "war on terrorism"); performing Australian identity (using Geertz's work on sensibility to discuss how we approach and understand the concept of aussie-ness)

::Edited to actually insert the link::

Go here for SGLMG

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