Supergirl!

Indeed, I was watching Donna Crouch's talk 'Supergirl grows up' (I think it's based on her book) and had a lot of laughs. She's an engaging and funny speaker and she definitely made me think. Forces me to consider actually going to Colour women's conference next year...

All of a sudden, I've taken this slightly obsessive stance on India and its culture, politics, history, people. Regarding that social theory paper, I'm researching India's rise in nationalism and postcolonial state.
Maybe it's the influence of Bride & Prejudice(!) and Zadie Smith's characters. Not entirely sure. Oh, and the 4u English paper I wrote - about...Indians. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas could just about do that actually - saturate me with a taste for Indian culture, which translates into a later subconscious preference for all things Indian.
Hah! Maybe I'll marry an Indian.
But really, right now I feel like having a warm bowl of butter chicken tikka and rice with lots of sauce. Mmmm.

x

PS I'm really disappointed, sad, miffed, angry, frustrated, upset (and I'm wallowing!) about Anne getting out of Aus idol. She doesn't deserve to go out so early! She's gracious, beautiful, bubbly, humble - supergirl!

passing the time

I'd forgotten how good it is to find a really great book and curl up in bed to read. This evening I hopped into bed; after an 8 hour shift from 8am-4pm (good heavens above and below) and clutched my new best friend: Zadie Smith's White Teeth. It's funny, smart, colourful and oh-so-intriguing. It's the sort of book that you are loathe to leave, even for one second to get a glass of water, go pee or otherwise. And I'd hate to use that time-old cliche of "I couldn't put it down"; but believe you me, I wouldn't let go of it (carried under an arm, sat on the adjacent chair at dinner, never left the kitchen bench while the dishes were cleaned) resulting in a headache from having the words too close to my eyes for prolongued periods of time.
And I have a feeling it will be one of the few English books that make the tedious, sleep-repelling flight over to France with me when I go. Along with it, perhaps Oscar Wilde's plays, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Tom Stoppard's plays, The Rule of Four (Caldwell and Thomason).
And NOTE! It was so satisfyingly pleasant to find a book that instantly captures your attention and drags you into the world. I've found it increasingly hard to find books that do this for me: good books with bad endings, or typical language - Anastacia, A Special Relationship, North of Ithaka (coincidentally the ones I buy cheap from that musty-smelling bargain bookstore at Railway Square...perhaps I should rethink my budget for books...).

Next on my list:
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

I've been encouraged to read this by a completely unreliable source (who hasn't read it...and is waiting for me to be the guinea pig and recommend it; if it passes my test). White Teeth, however, was recommended by someone I completely trust when it comes to my literary repertoire - though I still haven't gotten a hold of that book...Captain so-and-so's mandolette..or something of that description.

Music currently in my CD player/playing on my Creative mp3:
Amelie Soundtrack
Berlitz CD (Learn Spanish at home!) - don't ask
smatterings of Jamie Cullum, Thelonious Monk and Oscar Peterson trio
Natasha St-Pier

Things I really should be doing:

Writing 3 social theory/cultural studies essays and 1 PR research proposal...

oops.

catching love

All I can say is Jamie Cullum has done it again! And I haven't even listened to his whole album. Only previews of 3 of his songs. Ah, I'm in love.
x

Leaving a little mark

This is my first attempt at leaving my own little mark on the internet, no matter how small and irrelevant that mark may be.

Actually, that's not true I've made a blog before - not through blogspot, but through another site [it took too long to load on my computer, I think there's something wrong with it] www.limewire.com but I gave up on that one. And besides, who wants a blog that doesn't give you the option of customising the background and template!?
(so i posted my previous musings before this one...to prove my point...)
But seriously, i've been told a million and one times that blogging for the world to see is really not the most wonderful way to prove to everyone that you're a complete and utter nutcase...but at least some of the people that read my blog will be on the other side of the world - easier for me to escape social exile.
For those of you who do know me; well to you, nothing will ever change the fact that you think me a total and hopeless lost case. Very well then. And i shall continue with my little...hopefully colourful, mark on the world of blogging...