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Have read 2/3 of the 'Mediations' book.
Would post to Blackboard about how much useful quoteage there is in it, but feel it would be mean cause I've got the book out and I'm keeping it until I've copied all said quotes.

Happy now :-)

Things one can only learn by trying

Nail varnish experiments: some are just not meant to be.
So of the two types I acquired this weekend the one that looked nicely opalescent in the bottle is weedily pink once applied, and the other made of silver sparkles thus far refuses to stay on. But at least when it comes off all over the appliances they get prettier.
*sigh*
Also - the No17 glitter topcoat, when it goes over the top of any of the Rimmel Lycra range, turns into a splodgy nasty mess of goo. Which is rather unfair. I like glitter.

Undoubtedly all these problems are exacerbated by my splodgy imprecise technique with the application of this stuff - honestly, I could probably just dip my fingers in the bottles and get about as much accuracy as I manage with fiddly brushes. But I'm having fun :-)


Oh, also, the lovely metallics I bought a while back turn out to have been in the discount store basically because they very quickly dry up in the bottle to a small metal layer in the bottom of the bottle. It looks like I've used it all up and the bottle has a steel floor, but no, I just left it in the drawer with all the others.


Some days I have ten different colors because I couldn't decide. Today, only three. And all my toes are red. They tend to stay that way cause it doesn't come off so much and I don't remember to change it.

My favourite colors this month are 'Fuel' (lovely dark blue) and 'Silver bullet' (nice shiny white/silver depending how you turn it). But the red lycra ones tend to stay on best.

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Times you should probably take a break and finish the reading later:
You read it as 'where the Sahara meets the doughnut ravaged Sahel'.
*facepalm*
drought
*shakes head*



It's also quite difficult to concentrate where the plot bunny where Jack/Ianto play at Jack/Master keeps on invading my brain.
It's pretty.
But not, actually, helpful for Cultural Theory, in present form.

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Finished the 'Mediations' book :-)
Now I just need to go back and copy out all the bits I left a bookmark in.
... the book may be skinny, but it's totally sprouting bookmark all over.

The end bit had a couple of pages about Take That and them showing off their bodies, to go with the bits about women and the male gaze. If I'm reading it right the book has a theory that Take That and similar can do that because they're young, they're boys. It's not patriarchal power getting naked and objectified, it's some other subset of not yet powerful.

... yeah, no. To get to that theory it has put all the Rocky and Rambo half naked guys in a different category, for a start. And then, also - Captain Jack Harkness. Who does the lounging around half naked and the showing off in a series of outfits and stuff. And, also, the action hero stuff at other times. Messes the categories all to pieces. Either the theory was wrong or progress has been made.

The idea Rocky is a different category is because he gets all stripped down and showing skin but then he gets the crap beat out of him. Punished for it, sort of. So it's not the same.

Which seems like such an odd idea I'll go read again when it isn't night times, in case I got it wrong.

There was also that stuff about the typical male gaze in cinema being to do with the oedipus complex and being scared of castration cause they're looking at their mum.
... Freud was a freaky dude.

Also how phallocentric imagery concentrates on absence of phallus. Like, women has none so they get looked at, and men mustn't be looked at cause they have one. In which case, odd name.

Odd system.


I picked up the next book I chose from the library and some pages fell out. Woe. Now I got to tell the library and they'll probably think I did it. *sigh*

So far it is the 4th week of studying and I've read 4 books off the list. At this rate I'll only get half the list done. I've also read chunks of the reader and the textbook he was photocopying until we all got copies. I suspect that the order we're getting taught bits in is reflected more in the earlier edition, because it matches the categories in the reader I've got which is one edition older than the textbook I kept. I had the older book too but I sold that on cheap.

I'm doing very much reading. And posting to the discussion board, which is homework but nobody seems to have done it yet except for one person who I think posted while in class.
This is the plus side of doing things part time, I have only the one unit to concentrate on at once. Very much time for books.
Don't know how full time students are meant to do things at all. With much busy and more scattered reading I guess.