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2007-01-09 11:13 am
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Daily moment of gak...

So, the teaching manual for the roleplaying course suggests having your students imagine what it would be like to grow up during a lengthy war, as would the Athenians in 403 BCE, who had been in an on-off again war since 431.

My students are 18. The U.S. has been at war since they were 12 or 13. A third of their lives, and probably most of the period when they were aware of the larger world.
It isn't just a metaphor anymore.

Also, most random question asked me at the conference, during a lunchtime feminism roundtable discussion about the need to mix theory with activism - by a person who has never actually met me, and is a major scholar in the field:

"So, Orichalcum, you work on prostitutes. Have you gone out and done any actual work or outreach with real prostitutes, like the Hos' Collective?"
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2007-01-08 12:08 am
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Ori fall down go boom.

Conference over. Must pack, sleep for a few hours, fly home, see son and husband and dog and reassure the first and third of my love and food-providing abilities, prep classes for teaching, teach them, finish and turn in the HBO-Rome chapter, and sleep.

Driving back from San Juan Capistrano to see [livejournal.com profile] fajitas and [livejournal.com profile] pseudosilence for lunch, this song came on the radio. All weekend 100.7 (JACK), the same call number tho diff station as my childhood favorite, has been playing wonderfully thematically appropriate songs: "Walk Like an Egyptian, " "Waiting is the Hardest Part," "Take on Me," "Mr. Jones," "I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money." But this song really took the cake and summed up the whole weekend:

The Logical Song, by Supertramp )

Also, this is the funniest thing in oodles of days, but does contain mild spoilers at the very end: Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Gag Reel