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Jan. 7th, 2016 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhameia- Intended to simply sit in on Nalo's seminar (Special Topics in Fiction: The Empire Writes Back) and I decided to just register for the course. I figure it can't hurt to have a creative writing course on my transcript, in case I get to apply to creative writing positions.
The fact that SEAsteampunk is being taught in it may or may not be an obnoxious advantage. We're also reading the books of the incoming Sawyer guests, and get a master class with Walter Mosley.
- I read Stuff Theory some more, which is hellaciously hard because it's so up the ass of its chosen texts I don't really know what to get from it. I'm giving it until end of tomorrow and if I'm still struggling, fuck it. I'm gonna just give up the ghost and go look for William Morris books, as well as start my search for stuff on whiteness. This second chapter ain't gonna write itself.
- Around 4pm I went to see a talk about Harriet Jacobs.
- After that, I went to the seminar on SEAsian Lit. It's got so many more people this time than when I took it three years ago!! It's quite awesome. Dr. HM is also really getting into the swing of it and we talked about the ways of defining nations, national literatures, etc. It was a good time. I don't think I'll register for it but I'll definitely sit in on it some more.
The fact that SEAsteampunk is being taught in it may or may not be an obnoxious advantage. We're also reading the books of the incoming Sawyer guests, and get a master class with Walter Mosley.
- I read Stuff Theory some more, which is hellaciously hard because it's so up the ass of its chosen texts I don't really know what to get from it. I'm giving it until end of tomorrow and if I'm still struggling, fuck it. I'm gonna just give up the ghost and go look for William Morris books, as well as start my search for stuff on whiteness. This second chapter ain't gonna write itself.
- Around 4pm I went to see a talk about Harriet Jacobs.
- After that, I went to the seminar on SEAsian Lit. It's got so many more people this time than when I took it three years ago!! It's quite awesome. Dr. HM is also really getting into the swing of it and we talked about the ways of defining nations, national literatures, etc. It was a good time. I don't think I'll register for it but I'll definitely sit in on it some more.