Its On

Seven days later and the words are finally starting to flow. Geez, me and deadlines, its an evil match. Me and my brain are sooo not friends right now, but don't tell it I said that, I woudn't want it to take these so needed thoughts on analyzing the work of Jennie Livingston and Marlon Riggs away from me. Not at this vital hour! Not when the end of this God awful semester is so near.

Next up: The gendered toys of Macdonald's Happy Meals, some words on street kids in India and little black boys in inner city public schools, and the ways in which black erotica works against the silencing of black female sexuality... oh, and 2.5 weeks to be fruitful. Let the games begin!

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Mom's Fortress of Solitude

November 30, 2009 at 11:13 PM

No worries, Mama! You can do it! I have the utmost faith in you! BTW, I have the same issue with deadlines. Yet, if you're like me, you tend to do your best work at the very last minute.

PROCRASTINATORS UNITE!

(tomorrow at 7:30. OK, 8:00! What the heck! We'll just make it next week!) :0)~

That's quite a range of topics you have there, and quite interesting, too. I'm definitely intrigued!

Are these term papers for a sociology class?

Hang in there, Barb!

Angela

Barbara

December 1, 2009 at 4:42 PM

Thanks for the support and encouragement Angela! Its really been one of those semesters. In fact, the last few semesters have been "those" semesters. I'm so happy that it will be ending soon.

No, these aren't for a sociology class, but I'm happy that you thought they were. I'm in the department of Gender & Women's Studies, but its interdisciplinary, so its a lot of the same issues that are covered in sociology, and we get to apply methodology from various fields, such as anthropology, psychology and others.

I hope I have enough motivation to get me through these last papers.

Kay

December 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM

I always seem to find myself in a position like that. But I work well under pressure. I always seem to finish my papers by the deadline. Sometimes I wish I would cut out my bad habit. I always pay for it in the end.

I would like to introduce myself. I am a new mommy blogger. I saw your button so I clicked it. I love your atmosphere you have going here. Beautiful daughter. :-)

Barbara

December 3, 2009 at 9:16 PM

Thanks for coming by to visit Kay, and yes, there is always a price to pay in the end. But for some people, I think its the rush that you get from working down to the wire to get something finished. Not for me though. I'm quite the linear thinker when it comes to paper writing, so if I don't have my intro together, the rest of the paper is shot to hell until I do. Its my writing process, it just happens in its own time, which as you can guess, doesn't work so well when it needs to happen on someone else's time. Proud to report that I finished one, and now I have just 4 to go =)