you won't make yourself a name if you follow the rules

It literally doesn't matter which of the three PH 20X courses I take; they are not required to be taken in order, and I only need one of the three to hit the last of the sciences for my BS requirements. I have a minor preference for PH 205 Solar System Astronomy, which is why I registered for that one, but the professor who was supposed to be teaching all three has emailed all the students signed up for PH 205 this fall to say it's canceled, pick 206 or 207 in fall or wait till winter for 205. I don't feel like screwing up my nice neat 10-credit-per-term plan, is all, and the only course I can swap out of winter term is WGSS 270 Violence Against Women which is three credits where the three astronomy courses are each four.

But thank fuck the same text is/was assigned for all three courses. I already bought it.

ETA: POLL CLOSED. Stars and Stellar Evolution, here I come. :-D

*frowns at course list for next term*

WR 420 Studies in Writing, taught by one of the WGSS faculty. Must take. (4)
WGSS 416 Theories of Feminism. Must take. (4)
GER 112 First-Year German. Must take if I stay on the BA track. (4)
SUS 102 Introduction to Environmental Science and Sustainability. Must take it or a similar class eventually and I want to get the damn bio sci requirement over with. (4)
QS 462 Queer Theories. Must take. (3)

Looks like the only way out of this gridlock is to switch to BS track, which is tempting anyway because German is frustrating me so, and delay the bio sci requirement again. And maybe throw in one of the one-credit PAC classes to bring it up to 12, depending on whether the disability services office—uh-oh. Did I ever actually scan in the paperwork from my doctors to give the disability services office?

All signed up for my fall term woot!

Have now withdrawn my registration for the summer economics class. Reasoning being, I can see how the poetry class will (or at least could) bring me joy while advancing my educational goals. The economics class, neither.

Debating what language to sign up for in the fall. American Sign Language 111, Spanish 111, or Chinese 111. ASL and SPAN are both viable choices for my two-year language requirement for my BA and CHN is not, but I could switch to the BS and take something sciency at some point and then take CHN (or ASL, or SPAN, or KOR...) for fun. (nb: still pissed that the Japanese Ecampus courses start with 300-level.)

CHN (per the sample syllabus) requires video chatting with classmates and my work schedule in conjunction with my three-hour time difference from campus is not likely to make that easy. ASL strongly encourages video chatting with classmates. SPAN, no data (no sample syllabus).

SPAN, there's an excellent chance I can con my employer into paying for the tuition for those classes (to nobody's surprise, it is the most common first language in the state after English). CHN, a decent chance (we do a lot of business with China). ASL—my customer service in this job is all telephone-based, so it's not likely that my employer will think a strictly visual language has any relevance to my employment!

I have credit for Spanish I already, so I would need departmental permission to take SPAN 111 instead of SPAN 112, and I'd be paying for the course without getting credit for taking it. (No way do I recall enough Spanish to go straight to 112.) I have no previous study of Chinese or ASL.

And that's basically the pros-cons list!

...hmm. How bad an idea would it be, I wonder, to take ECON 330 Money and Banking this summer with the idea of getting that F (the last from summer 2012) off my transcript? I wouldn't be able to pay for eight credits of poetry and economics in cash, where I can pay the four credits of poetry in cash because I held on to so much of my federal tax refund for this purpose. But eight credits is more than six credits and thus I could use my federal loans for 2015-16 to pay for the term, I'd just have to let financial aid know that's what I'm doing. But if I use loans for four terms instead of three that'll mean paying part of my tuition for the later terms in cash like last year.

I don't really want to take the course, but I want to get the F off my transcript.

I am all registered for poetry, by the way, registration for summer term opened at 00:01 Pacific today and I just so happened to be awake. >_>

ETA: Dad thinks it would be a bad idea to take ECON 330 this summer. I shall take that under advisement.

drawing a total fucking blank on the Queer Studies final portfolio. I still want to do an Internet zine but I have to have a point, not several points, that the zine's making. agh.

In case anyone wishes to prompt me, here is the project outline again, omitting details about the presentation and the works cited and the reflection:

( lil' tl;dr )

due Wednesday fuck fuck fuck.

(no, I haven't managed to use any of the extra time today from not-going-to-sister's-show to work on this, why do you ask?)

I am interested in people's reactions to this quote from Eli Clare's Exile & Pride, essay entitled "Freaks and Queers":

I think about language. I often call nondisabled people able-bodied, or when I'm feeling confrontational, temporarily able-bodied. But if I call myself disabled in order to describe how the ableist world treats me as a person with cerebral palsy, then shouldn't I call nondisabled people enabled? That word locates the condition of being disabled, not in the nondisabled body, but in the world's reaction to that body. This is not a semantic game.

(PSA for anyone who wants to read the essay: ableist language left right and center. For purposes of critiquing same—like, the R word is followed by the sentence "I learned early that words could bruise a body"—but still present.)

Your final project asks you to choose a topic within Queer Studies, 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 a campus or off-campus 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. The purpose of this assignment is for you to apply classroom learning to a context outside of this class. This assignment asks you to focus on a particular audience, for a particular purpose, and within a clear context of production.

This is literally all the guidance we have on this project. Gaaah.

I have emailed the prof to ask if a short story would qualify.

ETA: Yeah um "I'll post more details in the next few days" does not really constitute an answer to the question.

Assignment: intersectional analysis of power and oppression with respect to LGBTQ people as seen in one media item (one TV show, for example, or one movie, or one advertisement).

Supernatural rlisties who're up to date on canon: Is there anything in Supernatural S9-10 post the Dorothy episode (what was that, 9x04?) that would be pertinent to this assignment?

Lost Girl rlisties: Think there's four to six pages of material on this topic in Lost Girl season one? (I own season one, and I think only season one actually the first three seasons. I haven't seen past season one, I'm pretty sure. What season are we on now?)

Sailor Moon rlisties: I don't have time to marathon enough Sailor Moon Classic to get to Haruka and Michiru, never mind the Sailor Stars. WOE IS ME. Which episodes are most significant in terms of queer content? (I have fansubs. Lucky me.)

All rlisties: Are there movies that sound relevant to my interests and that I can easily acquire via Amazon or B&N that have something to say about queerness? (Sadly I do not mean that in the sense of [fem]slashability or queer subtext—this is why I am excluding Sailor Moon Crystal from consideration, unless something significant happened in ep 6, 7, or 8; I am not caught up but would love to hear if there's queer text in one of those episodes, not just subtext—and Supernatural filled my lifetime quota of queerbaiting.) What about other TV shows? (I hear rumors of canon femslash in OUAT? Is that in the first two seasons? I own the first two seasons but haven't seen past...pretty early.) I can't remember if Community has canon queer other than the Dean, but I also haven't watched Community in quite some time.

I don't have much time to catch up, but I do have some time—this assignment is due the Monday ending week seven, and this coming Monday ends week three. So I should have time to rewatch whichever one TV season I focus on (or the scattered relevant episodes of Supernatural, if I must—I don't actually want to do this assignment on Supernatural, because that show pissed me off too damn bad; I'm just pretty sure I can do it on Supernatural if I need to—and I definitely ought to have time to watch a couple movies. I don't want to do Elena Undone (even though it'd be decent for this assignment) because y'all all looking at me like 'what's Elena Undone?'.