Monday was Memorial Day in the US; it's officially for reals summer here (90F helps prove it), so it's time to solidify summer research plans and other things. On the slate for summer blogging plans: Me Made June, the Summer Book Club, and Notorious/Another Damned Medivalist's Summer Writing Group. I think I'm going to loosely tie the book club and the writing group together: my reading list (and book club related posting) is going to be heavy on sci fi/fantasy with a feminist angle, along with some more generalized posts on race, feminism, and material culture provoked by my more heavily theoretical reading for my writing project, a first draft of a dissertation chapter. (omg) A lot of what interests me about my dissertation topic is the systemic creation of the consumer culture we engage with now and the personal creation of identity through clothing; I hope the intersection of theoretical issues with consumerism and identity making might interest you as well.
In non-theoretical news, J and I spent the hottest day of the year (so far) biking and picnicing at Snooty U's arboretum. By my conservative estimate, we biked around a thousand million miles, but J says it was more like ten. Except for a broken shifter on my bike when we were almost home, it was basically one of the most perfect summer days you could ask for: homemade beer, at an empty park, eating fancy cheeses and warm strawberries with a nice boy. More picnics are also on the summer to do list.
you look beautiful in that picture -- and it sounds like you guys had a perfect start to summer.
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