Eeeeeeee! I am SO pleased — just got the email from my dissertation committee chair that she’s passing my dissertation proposal on as acceptable! Now…
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Gleeful news! :-D
Whew! Got my definition for indigenous hammered out adequately, I think — thank heavens! It’s been a pretty good couple of days so far, in…
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Butter chicken for dinner tonight — yum! It’s in the crockpot and starting to make the house smell delicious. Combined with the fact that it’s…
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Our old apple tree has a few blossoms on it! They look like lovely pinkish froth, almost, despite there being only a handful of them.…
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This is just going to be various fun/silly things in my life currently — sometimes I need to simply not think about dissertation stuff. So!…
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I’m trying to write more often — it’s way too easy for me to get into a no-writing slump and procrastinate on my dissertation proposal.…
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Finally had a bit of a breakthrough on my dissertation proposal — hallelujah! Working now on getting a dissertation committee Chair, and figuring out all…
Continue ReadingWoman in the Shaman’s Body
The apparently overwhelmingly powerful need to control women which some men appear to have is painfully expressed yet again in a form which is recorded…
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In the same year as Ely & Meyerson’s amazing article regarding the malleability of masculinity, Euro-American columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and Asian-American lecturer and business…
Continue ReadingMeatbaaallz! ;)
I figure this posting works well here, right after yesterday’s blog posting on masculinity! :) So, I think I’ve taken the next step or so…
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