Where it began, I can't begin to know

[gogmagog]

Finally sent off the prospectus for my dissertation to my committee, and will be going in later today to photocopy a hard copy for them. WOOHOO! It took a year to come to fruition, but it's finally here!

Now here's hoping that in that same amount of time that it took to conceive and write these 7 pages (plus bibliography), that I can manage...about 250 pages of actual dissertation. orz

IN OTHER NEWS my digital letterpress class is going swimmingly; I'm currently in the process of making photopolymer printing plates for my first (of two) multi-page book project, which is a short booklet about the Tamam Shud case. Creepy AND informative...the best of both worlds! Anyway, I spent about 3 hours yesterday evening making polymer plates, and I'll probably spend the same amount of time or a bit more today doing the same thing. Here's hoping the end result is awesome enough to justify all this work?

And in OTHER OTHER NEWS I am elated about the return of Glee (Madonna episode tonight, HELL YEAH, BITCHES...and I'm not even a Madonna fan, I just loved Sue Sylvester's Vogue video). Other newly discovered televisual enjoyments have included Spartacus: Blood and Sand (bloody as fuck, but totally awesome), 6teen (from the creators of the Total Drama series, conceived as a teen version of Friends set in a shopping mall SHUT UP I KNOW I'M LAME BUT IT'S KINDA AWESOME), and Ugly Americans (which is wrong but totally awesome, especially zombie roommate Randall; as I was telling jokersama, it's reminiscent to me of that bizarrely awesome mid-'90's MTV show The Head). And of course there is Doctor Who, which is delightful to have back on regularly (even if "The Merchandising Victory of the Daleks" was a bit lightweight and plot-holey, especially given the awesome premise of Daleks fighting for Britain in World War II).

Finally, I am currently teaching a Rambo novel to my students to round out the semester...how awesome is that? (Clearly we will have to end our discussion of it by viewing clips of all four Rambo films, natch.) Sometimes I love teaching.

Comments

[brandchan.livejournal.com]

If you are watching cartoon network I highly recomend Adventure Time. It's totally the crazy fantasy world one would want to live in when they were eight.

Victory of the Daleks was cute but the solution to not blowing up was WTF?! to me. Just believe you are human? Really come on? Are we going to clap our hands to get the Doctor out of trouble next time?

Also good luck on your dissertation.

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

I've seen the ads for Adventure Time and it looked weird! Maybe I should check it out then.

VotD was indeed kinda wtf in that moment. Though they kind of have had the "clap your hands if you believe" moment before (the end of Season 3, with Tinkerbell Jesus Doctor).

And thanks! I hope it goes well.

[dj-jonny-flash.livejournal.com]

I love Spartacus. It gets totally crazy every episode. I can't wait to see what they do with a second season(here's hoping that the main actor does well in his cancer treatments).

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

It is totally awesome! I also hope Andy Whitfield recovers quickly and well from his non-Hodgkins lymphoma and that he is able to do a second season.