actually did tada some things yesterday

But not enough things.

Things I need to do, ideally today, in no particular order:
* watch four hours of Sailor Moon Classic for the project due Monday
* read a week's worth of readings for the journal due tomorrow
* read two weeks' worth of readings for the quiz due Saturday and the discussion due today
* do the proposal due last Saturday
* do the final draft due last Saturday
* read three weeks' worth of readings for the discussions due last and this Saturday and the critical responses due last and this Monday and the Monday before last
* write the short story due Monday after next
* crochet much for middle sister's birthday gift due early December
* sew much for brother's Giftmas gift due late December
* call PCP to schedule appointment due ASAP
* watch the first episode of Sailor Moon Classic and write two thousand words for NaNoWriMo
* clean upstairs bathroom
* finalize courses to register for on Sunday
* at least one reply to the discussion due today for which I needed to read the short story
* answer inkstone
* bake lasagna and bring to work

Things I have done today:
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100 college things 75

I have the moar details on my QS final portfolio!

Your project asks you to choose a topic within Queer Studies, situate your own experiences in relations to this topic, engage in research around this topic, and create a project that you can implement outside of this classroom. For instance, you might decide to create a podcast about LGBTQ issues, design a workshop for an event, or write a song about an historical event. It can be anything you would like to do, as long as it focuses remains within Queer Studies and has a real-life application outside of this class. You need to use at least three genres for the final project (i.e. text, image, sound, material object). These should work together as a whole to deliver the information or message you would like to an imagined audience outside of this class.

You can do anything you want for this project, as long as it's engaging Queer Studies from an intersectional analysis. This project is for you to bring theory into practice through research and application.

Pick a topic that you care about, want to learn more about and that you can actually use outside of this class.

Here are some ideas:
• Create a short film
• Create a comic
• Design a website
• Create a performance and share it online
• Design a workshop and include all materials online
• Write and perform song and share it with the class
• Create an art piece
• Write something for publication
• Create an educational presentation
• Design a direct action
• Create a zine

Wish people wouldn't say 'genre' when they mean 'medium'.

So! It looks like a short story will work as long as I also have art and a podfic, or whatever. But I'm eyeing that last item on the list. Could someone clarify the concept of 'zine' for me? I vaguely understand it to be a multimedia collection of things on a theme, for which people send in submissions that an editor curates...

ETA: Asked prof for clarification, and while he didn't say whether my assessment of 'zine' is accurate, he did say I wouldn't need submissions from others. (He also said he likes the idea of a short story with illustrations and an audio component.) That said: I spent the whole time I was cooking breakfast and making tea (...these were sequential activities, because I did not have the sense to put the teakettle on till after I finished eating) thinking about the logistics of me editing a zine. It even has a name, assuming nobody's taken it already (and a cursory DuckDuckGo search suggests not): Translucent.

ETA2: translucent_zine. There is as yet nothing there, but the account is MINE for when I need it.

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And I got so excited over the zine idea, and so worried over the logistics for the lasagna for the work party tonight, that I completely spaced on putting my tablet in my bag. I have my crochet to occupy meal break. I don't have my tunes to occupy work time. :(

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Or maybe I do have tunes.

...You know, much as I like Sara Bareilles's "Brave", and even though I often do put individual songs on repeat just 'cause, having a couple lines of "Brave" playing in my head all night and nothing else and no way to switch (well, I could think pointedly of "It's a Small World", but that won't actually help) is gonna be frustrating.

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Do I know anyone with any familiarity with ancient Greek? Because I know the name 'Alexander' and by extension 'Alexandria' comes from Greek for 'defender of men'. I'm trying to figure out 'defender of women'. 'Alexagyneia'?

...not quite as trippingly off the tongue, is it?

(Please, world, do not make me ask my brother. He knows ancient Greek but he might ask why I want to know this.)

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AAAAAUGH.

Of all the work days to have no tunes.

It could have been worse. The thirty-odd things that got creatively rejected by their submitter—like, seriously creatively, to the point that a couple coworkers spent ten minutes trying to find out what the system did with them; we have proof those request numbers had existed but nobody could prove those request numbers did exist, 'cause of the creative way in which the submitter went about rejecting them—we could have had to do those.