drupagliassotti @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Tick, tick, tick. We’re closing in on the end of August, which means I’m starting to hyperventilate as the first day of class draws near.
The life of a professor right before the new academic year is busier than most students think, I’ll bet. I’m revising syllabi, updating classroom notes and slides, making certain I’m familiar […]
drupagliassotti @ August 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I traveled through India for three weeks with a duffel bag and lived in Italy for three months out of a carry-on suitcase, so you’d think I could have done a week in Australia with a schoolkid’s backpack. Unfortunately, I had to bring the larger carry-on. That’s the bother of business travel — cramming blazers […]
drupagliassotti @ July 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Wildfires, earthquakes, and floods are sometimes said to be Southern California’s three seasons. But over the last few years we’ve ignored earthquakes, our collective attention taken up by a series of large-scale wildfires and the inevitable flooding and hillside collapses that occur once winter’s rain hits all the burnt-out areas.
However, earlier this week we Southern […]
drupagliassotti @ July 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
So, after reading about it in numerous blogs, I finally got my hands on Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food. This is the book in which he boils down eating guidelines to seven words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Past reading, especially w/regard to historical conceptions of beauty and critiques of fat prejudice, had […]
drupagliassotti @ July 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’ve mentioned my writing whiteboard a couple of times, so I thought I’d go ahead and post an image in case any of you might want to use one.
I live in a one-bedroom apartment, so I write on one side of my dining room table and eat on the other. This is the writing side. […]
drupagliassotti @ July 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Just wanted to say a quick “g’day” to everyone from Australia. This is a beautiful country! I’m currently in Wollongong at an internet cafe — the Japanese Transnational Fandoms workshop starts tomorrow, but today I’m just wandering around. I saw a fantastic performance of Hamlet last night in the Sydney Opera House. I bought same-day […]
drupagliassotti @ June 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I posted a while ago about the fact that I was cleaning some old trunks to use as furniture. Here’s the big trunk being used as my coffee table; it contains what used to be kept in my “miscellaneous tools” and “art supplies” bins, with a ton of room to spare. When I move next […]
drupagliassotti @ June 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m headed Down Under from June 29 - July 8 for a conference on Japanese Transnational Fandoms at the University of Wollongong. I will, of course, be talking about yaoi — in this case, about how U.S. publishers are taking this originally Japanese genre and adapting it for the West.
I find the “translation” of boys’ […]
drupagliassotti @ June 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Ever since moving into my new apartment, I’ve been hunting for the perfect cone of silence. A friend pointed out that I’m not the only one, as the Right to Quiet Society is dedicated to reducing the amount of man-made noise in the world. That’s their logo to your left.
Of course, a lot of the […]
drupagliassotti @ June 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“I have very happy hair. No matter how serene and composed the rest of me is, no matter how grave and formal the situation, my hair is always having a party.”
— Bill Bryson, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, p. 31.
That paragraph is, quite simply, brilliant. I will never in my life write or say […]