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Oct. 15th, 2015 08:00 pmRealized I neglected to mention things I did yesterday:
- Went to campus early-ish for a seminar with John Rieder on his book about the emergence of science fiction and colonialism. Small seminar, very nice. Forgot it overlapped with my office hour.
- After the lecture, I went to the APSP roundtable discussion. Was the oldest there, as usual, but this time, not the only grad student!
- Went home and found to my dismay I had to go BACK to campus for a SciFi Reading Group meeting, this one's the MFA version led by Nalo.
Today I went to campus (around 11, because I didn't want to be around for the ShakeOut) and did some work! Spoke to Dr. HBZ about whether or not I want to do an author reading at ICFA. I think I might choose not to do the author reading and instead try to submit a paper. I'm not sure on what yet, but I'll think of something. And if I miss it, oh well--I've got to submit an abstract for the SEAS conference anyway.
Then I had a chat with AA about, oh, IDK anymore.
At 4pm, I went to play pretend at being a teacher for Nalo's creative writing class! It's an Intro to Fantasy class, and this class was on Portal/Quest Fantasies. They were assigned a chapter to read. I flubbed up at the beginning where I tried to get them to help make a list by referring to the chapter, but only two of them even had the text with them. Good thing I had the lists myself, and was assigning a lot of in-class writing anyway (three hours!).
I made them write a moment of a "point of entry" while I listed out the rhetorical strategies of the quest fantasy. Then I made them write prophecies in pairs, while I went around to read through their first pieces. Afterwards, I had them draw maps for their prophecies, and then finished with a discussion on how maps should work in good world-building. I think they appreciated it.
Conference tomorrow! I get to present on Indigenous Steampunk. Better print my script.
- Went to campus early-ish for a seminar with John Rieder on his book about the emergence of science fiction and colonialism. Small seminar, very nice. Forgot it overlapped with my office hour.
- After the lecture, I went to the APSP roundtable discussion. Was the oldest there, as usual, but this time, not the only grad student!
- Went home and found to my dismay I had to go BACK to campus for a SciFi Reading Group meeting, this one's the MFA version led by Nalo.
Today I went to campus (around 11, because I didn't want to be around for the ShakeOut) and did some work! Spoke to Dr. HBZ about whether or not I want to do an author reading at ICFA. I think I might choose not to do the author reading and instead try to submit a paper. I'm not sure on what yet, but I'll think of something. And if I miss it, oh well--I've got to submit an abstract for the SEAS conference anyway.
Then I had a chat with AA about, oh, IDK anymore.
At 4pm, I went to play pretend at being a teacher for Nalo's creative writing class! It's an Intro to Fantasy class, and this class was on Portal/Quest Fantasies. They were assigned a chapter to read. I flubbed up at the beginning where I tried to get them to help make a list by referring to the chapter, but only two of them even had the text with them. Good thing I had the lists myself, and was assigning a lot of in-class writing anyway (three hours!).
I made them write a moment of a "point of entry" while I listed out the rhetorical strategies of the quest fantasy. Then I made them write prophecies in pairs, while I went around to read through their first pieces. Afterwards, I had them draw maps for their prophecies, and then finished with a discussion on how maps should work in good world-building. I think they appreciated it.
Conference tomorrow! I get to present on Indigenous Steampunk. Better print my script.