Poster

Finished my poster for Midwest, but I still need to get it printed and it is fucking expensive.  I know I'm getting reimbursed and everything but...seriously.  Why is it so much money.

Not going to lie, I kind of hope no one really is interested in my stuff, just because this paper is in an area I'm not familiar with, and the time I should have spent working on it I instead spent playing D3 or watching tv or dicking around on the internet or doing the seemingly neverending list of readings for my other classes or just kind of staring at walls and blanking out in my bed.  Because that happens a lot more than it probably should.

But at least it is done minus the printing aspect?  I mean, it probably isn't very good but I don't care all that much.  This won't be an area I want to go into.


Yesterday one of my old profs had a nice discussion with me about my angry facebook status concerning street harassment and the importance of gender/women's studies.  He asked me what I meant by that and I told him, and I explained that - despite his argument that those classes may cause niches and that is what he is afraid of; he would instead like it more if we included more aspects of women's history and the like into our regular courses - these types of classes point to a very important issue that permeates schools and society.  That most subjects are predominantly white, male, heterosexual, and cisgendered, and then when people call for the introduction of discussions about people other than that group, things get all unnecessarily heated.  Because a bunch of white dudes will talk over everyone else and so it is frustrating.  So these niche classes, if you will, are needed.  Hopefully one day they won't be, because women and men and PoC and LGBTQ* and the like will all have equal representation in the classes we teach.  But that is likely not going to happen anytime soon.

But it was an interesting topic to discuss with him.


Hopefully getting one thing done today will not deter me from doing other shit I need to get done.  Hopefully.
But there is always Diablo.  And Act V is fucking awesome so far.  Even if it is kicking my ass a bit.  I reluctantly had to downgrade the difficulty from Torment IV to Torment II and I'm still dying more than I would like.  Sob.