posted 2005/05/17 at 21:36
In addition to all the papers I was working on at the end of the term, I also submitted an abstract for a conference on women in rock and the influence authors/books have had on them. Just now I got an e-mail saying that my abstract has been accepted, so this fall I'll be driving over to Wisconsin to give a paper on the influence Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye had on Björk, particularly her song "Hyperballad" (which seems the most obvious instance of Bataille influencing Björk). Sounds cool (especially since I know UT has a fund to help me with travel expenses and such), and things like this are supposed to be the ticket to me being able to pursue doctoral work and getting tenure and such.
Just keep in mind, getting a couple of my poems published and winning that fiction award were supposed to be the keys to me getting into grad school for creative writing, and we all remember how well that turned out.
Anyway, I'm really getting sick of how Internet Explorer keeps freezing up on me after I installed Norton Utilities a while ago. It's not like I can uninstall Norton, and I'm not ready to make the move to another browser yet. I'd still like to move to Linux here eventually, but for right now tasks involving school and my music are keeping me stuck with Windows. Soon, though, I will rid myself of all this Microsoft crap ... except for my XBox because of its DDR games and ... sigh, I'm not much of a rebel, am I? :(
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