cue dorky excitement here

this quarter's sociology course is a series of lectures on the current research projects being carried out by the faculty and researchers in our department, which i think is an awfully cool idea (and i particularly love seeing people talk about their own research, because they're so excited they frequently make it interesting where it otherwise wouldn't be).  the main grade in the course comes from a ten-page paper on one of the presentations. 

now, when i actually write my own theses (the bachelor's-level one should be in two years) i want to focus on slash fandom in some way (though i might conceivably change my mind by then).  so gcsl's work on transgender culture isn't exactly the most relevant thing and is connected only by queerness, but it's still the most interesting thing on the syllabus¹. 

in fact, i've been curious about it since i first found out that's what his specialty was, and i'm excited to read his thesis.  but today when i went to copy it, i discovered an actual book bound in paperback form by the university press.  we're talking at least an hour of copying and probably €15 of copycards, and two other people wanted the copy machine in the fifteen minutes i was there, so i guess i have to set aside a morning or afternoon in the near future to copy the whole damn thing later.  this is a pity, cause i wanted to get it over with. 

however, it's not like i don't have more to read than i'm comfortable with already and an exam next week.  so whatever.


1. much as i love media sociology, which is sldl's specialty, i am sick of 'do pokémon/the power rangers/video games make children violent?'  i was sick of that debate by the time i finished elementary school.

a couple of random caps

when i was watching the extras on the phantom of the opera, i had to make some caps of gerard because he's hollsk's type and he was a) making funny faces and b) lounging on a couch like a hot thing.

here you go, holls, with lots of love. i know that to actually make up for the amount of time we haven't managed to talk it would be better to actually send gerard to lounge on your couch but for some reason he keeps saying he's busy.

( gerard butler making faces and lounging. )

also, it came to my attention that thelionforreal hasn't actually seen this movie yet. and apparently during the documentaries i took some caps of footage from the actual film, though i have no memory of that. but anyway, here are three, two of which are rather shameless although they're from "music of the night" and not actually quite as shameless as the on-stage almost-sex that happens in "the point of no return". ( Read more... )