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onefixedstar) wrote2005-04-14 04:12 pm
onefixedstar) wrote2005-04-14 04:12 pm
My new favourite things
I'm completely in love with opal right now. I got a greenish-blue black opal doublet pendant a couple of days ago, and I can't seem to stop staring at it. So very, very pretty.
I'm also completely in love with Political Communication, a journal that I somehow failed to notice until recently, despite the fact that it focuses on all the issues I'm really interested in. I think my task for the first week of May will be to thumb through the back issues, looking at the current debates and hopefully finding inspiration for a dissertation topic. They even have a whole issue, less than a year old, devoted to the role of sociology in communications and media study! How perfect! How grad student-esque to be proclaiming love for a journal! I'm as bad as MasseyPrincess, who couldn't stop grinning last week when her 600 page Randall Collins book arrived. (That's a theory book, folks, for those of you who don't keep up with such things. A big-ass theory book. And she doesn't even like theory.)
I'm craving good old North American Chinese food right now. There's something ironic about craving artificial-Chinese when one lives amidst a bounty of delicious and authentic Asian restaurants, but there it is. I'm sure there's some return-to-childhood thing in there, possibly brought on by stress. Plus, you know, large quantities of MSG, sugar, and oil do make for tasty food, up until it kills you. I'm fighting the craving for now, but if it's still there tonight, I might order some in while engaging in one of my other guilty pleasures: cop shows. (Tonight's line-up: "CSI" and "Without a Trace.") The question is, who do I have a better chance of convincing to participate: my roommate or my boyfriend?
I'm also completely in love with Political Communication, a journal that I somehow failed to notice until recently, despite the fact that it focuses on all the issues I'm really interested in. I think my task for the first week of May will be to thumb through the back issues, looking at the current debates and hopefully finding inspiration for a dissertation topic. They even have a whole issue, less than a year old, devoted to the role of sociology in communications and media study! How perfect! How grad student-esque to be proclaiming love for a journal! I'm as bad as MasseyPrincess, who couldn't stop grinning last week when her 600 page Randall Collins book arrived. (That's a theory book, folks, for those of you who don't keep up with such things. A big-ass theory book. And she doesn't even like theory.)
I'm craving good old North American Chinese food right now. There's something ironic about craving artificial-Chinese when one lives amidst a bounty of delicious and authentic Asian restaurants, but there it is. I'm sure there's some return-to-childhood thing in there, possibly brought on by stress. Plus, you know, large quantities of MSG, sugar, and oil do make for tasty food, up until it kills you. I'm fighting the craving for now, but if it's still there tonight, I might order some in while engaging in one of my other guilty pleasures: cop shows. (Tonight's line-up: "CSI" and "Without a Trace.") The question is, who do I have a better chance of convincing to participate: my roommate or my boyfriend?
Grad school geekdom
In an effort to watch some CanCon TV last night (Godiva's, on Bravo), I missed the episode of Law & Order that I was going to watch. The promo looked like Detective Green got shot, and I'm dying to know what happened - and TWOP doesn't recap it! Augh! (I too, have a love for my favorite cop show, which saw me through grad school on A&E).
By the way, if you keep with academia, the love of new academic books continues. You should have seen me when my free review copies of "Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History", and "Out of the Background: Readings on Canadian Native History" arrived.
Re: Grad school geekdom
Detective Greene was shot, and it doesn't look good for him. Fontana's furious, the DAs are unhappy, and I have no idea what situation led to him being shot. I don't think they caught the shooter, however, because according to the ads, they're going to follow up on "L&O: Trial by Jury." I suppose it's an effort to boost ratings on a show that's been panned in every critical review I've read. I'm torn on whether to watch--I want to know what happens, but I also don't want to watch the show if it sucks as badly as I've heard.
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