One More Time for the Cheap Seats in the Back!

So it's been awhile since I've posted. So long in fact, blogger deleted my blog. Here's my question: shouldn't they at least send you an email? A heads up? A "hey, you haven't posted so we're deleting you" kind of dear john letter? Apparently not. And here's a question: why don't they call them dear jane letters? Just a sidenote, but I digress.

Hopefully I'll be posting more regularly, but all the reading and writing I have to do for school I sort of fell out of the habit. So what's new with me?

Here, we'll use bullets, cause I like bullets, and my friend Kate likes them too.

• I've been watching "Sex and the City" a little too much lately. I feel like Carrie right now typing on my laptop, although I do not live in posh New York, nor do I have a size 2 body complete with stylish clothes on a crappy salary. But I like it anyway.
  
• I'm reading Laurell K. Hamilton novels; they are about vampires: Anita Blake is a vampire slayer (no Buffy, but badass in her own way) and an animator; what does that mean? She is a necromancer (every time I type this I think of the season 5 Angel ep with the necromancer who puts demons into the bodies of dead humans) who reanimates dead people (Zombies) for a living. But the zombies in Hamilton's world are dumb, slow, and do not eat human flesh (for the most part. Only if they don't want to decay, and who doesn't want that?) In her world, vampires are people too, and they live among humans, participating happily in the consumerist materialism that is the American Way. Ya gotta love that. Oh, and she's a badass woman with weapons. I like that.
  
• I'm taking summer classes, 2 in fact, and they are kicking my proverbial behind. I'm reading and reading and reading some more, so much so that my eyes are metaphorically bleeding out of my skull. But I'm learning a lot. This is what I'm learning: that America is a bully and always has been, that we think we're God and therefore have the right to kill, move, Americanize, and all around snuff out any other culture, language or identity that doesn't fit the white, heterosexual, prudish paradigm. Nice.
  
• I'm watching some good films for my philosophy and film course, and I'm learning a lot about Hannah Arendt, a very influential 20th century philosopher who had a lot to say about 2 of the major events of the 20th century: Nazism and Stalinism. I might bounce some of her ideas off this blog every now and then.
  
• I'm gearing up for my homegirl's wedding: she's getting married on 07/07/07. Pretty sweet huh? She picked this date so her groom will remember their anniversary. I'm currently taking bets on the future of that assumption.
  
• Oh, and, I'm in the wedding. Now I can hear your question: what does the dress look like? It's red (a plus) and a simple A line long dress. She picked the best cut for all of us, I think; she had to pick a dress that would hold one of the bridesmaid's breasts; she's like a DD so...yeah. I'm going to feel quite inadequate, but that's ok; we'll be drinking mimosas all day.
• My puppy, Dax, (after Jetsia Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) has gotten better: she's 8 months now, and still chewing up things but a tad more mellow and grown up. She does, however, get me up every morning at 5 to potty, and at 7 to eat. Needless to say, I'm walking around like one of Anita Blake's reanimated corpses.
  
• Oh, and I'm teaching an online course: WGS 250: Intro to Women's and Gender Studies; and while I appreciate the new technology of online courses, etc., a course that questions your identity at the very core is by no means a course that needs to take place online. However, one good thing? The students seem to be a tad more honest and forthcoming when they don't have to meet face to face. Foucault would say they have policed themselves a tad less than usual; don't you think?
  

That's all for now folks. I'm off to pick up my puppy, and do homework. Life is pretty sweeettt. (that was sarcasm, fyi).

I'll holla back later. Enjoy my new blog!