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I have been *buried* like a crazy person in all kinds of things. Not bad things, not at all, just lots and lots of things one after another.
So I give you life, in photo form (well, and some things that i forgot to take photos of, because i have trouble that way)
( A visit from one of my very favorite people in the world, Tebo. )
( Two of my friends got married, and this is when we took them out to dinner to celebrate after they'd done the ceremony stuff )
( I presented at a Japanese pop culture conference in Minneapolis on Sept 27th! )
( My second chapter, on Japanese magazine covers in the 1960s, got turned in on October 1 )
( I got to go to a departmental faculty meeting and pretend like I know what I'm doing. No, kidding. But I did talk about our upcoming graduate student conference )
( I had a birthday! I am older! Like by a whole year! )
And since then I've started a writing workshop to transform a written piece into an article, assembled my portfolio so I can apply for the 3 (yes, 3) jobs in the U.S. for Japanese literature and culture professors, applied for one of the most prestigious national fellowships available to ppl who work on what I do (and trust me, that was a pain, including two different research statement workshops and one rewrite of a dissertation chapter), had another friend come to visit for 4 days (he doesn't like pictures, but we talked about our projects, watched a ton of movies and tv, and found yummy local places to eat on the cheap), and watched a TON of Gillmore Girls with my housemate.
And since Halloween is coming, I have one more image for you:
this is a skeleton flamingo. to be found in the yard up the street that brought us the two-joseph chreche at Christmas time (found in this picspam about 2/3rds of the way down) I love them. They are awesome. I just need to find a way to make them my friends.
So I give you life, in photo form (well, and some things that i forgot to take photos of, because i have trouble that way)
( A visit from one of my very favorite people in the world, Tebo. )
( Two of my friends got married, and this is when we took them out to dinner to celebrate after they'd done the ceremony stuff )
( I presented at a Japanese pop culture conference in Minneapolis on Sept 27th! )
( My second chapter, on Japanese magazine covers in the 1960s, got turned in on October 1 )
( I got to go to a departmental faculty meeting and pretend like I know what I'm doing. No, kidding. But I did talk about our upcoming graduate student conference )
( I had a birthday! I am older! Like by a whole year! )
And since then I've started a writing workshop to transform a written piece into an article, assembled my portfolio so I can apply for the 3 (yes, 3) jobs in the U.S. for Japanese literature and culture professors, applied for one of the most prestigious national fellowships available to ppl who work on what I do (and trust me, that was a pain, including two different research statement workshops and one rewrite of a dissertation chapter), had another friend come to visit for 4 days (he doesn't like pictures, but we talked about our projects, watched a ton of movies and tv, and found yummy local places to eat on the cheap), and watched a TON of Gillmore Girls with my housemate.
And since Halloween is coming, I have one more image for you:
this is a skeleton flamingo. to be found in the yard up the street that brought us the two-joseph chreche at Christmas time (found in this picspam about 2/3rds of the way down) I love them. They are awesome. I just need to find a way to make them my friends.
