tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15851934.post114497904754273009..comments2023-11-03T00:36:33.435+10:00Comments on Galaxy: Nothing MuchKirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14035268080440921379noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15851934.post-1146617097624343482006-05-03T10:44:00.000+10:002006-05-03T10:44:00.000+10:00Well, I'm all for increasing my contribution to th...Well, I'm all for increasing my contribution to the social good--I don't think that $15 per month to the Wilderness Society goes very far.<BR/>I like 'refreshing', puts me in mind of that noise when you turn the lid on a fizzy drink and hope it doesn't explode in your face ; )Kirstyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14035268080440921379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15851934.post-1146550773148475252006-05-02T16:19:00.000+10:002006-05-02T16:19:00.000+10:00only just catching up now. I registered my academi...only just catching up now. I registered my academia 101 blog at PhD weblogs because Tom told me about it. my other one, though, isn't exactly a secret cos it's linked from my online CV (which is linked to the Asian Australian Studies page). you've probably read my whingey, half-arsed posts about feeling constricted in what I can say or post about. it's v. annoying (me having a whinge, that is). <BR/><BR/>your blog is so refreshing after seeing way too many academic wankers keeping self-indulgently intellectual blogs that 'speak to' their research. my take on it? if you're going to go to that much trouble to work through a concept, issue, whatever, go and frickin' publish it. I like my blog-reading to be engaging and fun - what's the point otherwise? there's already too much craptastic, pseudo-intellectual stuff out there on aca journals. the fact that yours doesn't reference your phd research as a primary thing is a social good.Tseenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17471093825705624393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15851934.post-1145405997326858922006-04-19T10:19:00.000+10:002006-04-19T10:19:00.000+10:00Did you notice how restrained I was over Easter on...Did you notice how restrained I was over Easter on the egg theme? I do seem strangely obsessed with them.Kirstyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14035268080440921379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15851934.post-1145345663844092202006-04-18T17:34:00.000+10:002006-04-18T17:34:00.000+10:00I had to come back to tell you that the word verif...I had to come back to tell you that the word verification for the last comment was "eggyhqpd" - that seems eerily appropriate for this blog....lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15851934.post-1145345452768704332006-04-18T17:30:00.000+10:002006-04-18T17:30:00.000+10:00Ah well, I figure I'm not going to get a job anywa...Ah well, I figure I'm not going to get a job anyway, so I may as well blog whatever I like :-)lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15851934.post-1145021022740617112006-04-14T23:23:00.000+10:002006-04-14T23:23:00.000+10:00I suspect my wish to keep the two realms separate ...I suspect my wish to keep the two realms separate might have something to do with not wanting to be adversely effected in my professional life by the fall out from any unseemly outburst or overly confessional moment I might make on this blog. <BR/><BR/>I suppose there are two things I'm struggling to say here. The one I started to say was that I love the mode of expression that blogging affords me, because I truly don't think it's like any other medium/genre. The second is that since the blogosphere is a more confessional, personal, off the cuff opinionated, blathering and ranty environment, I wouldn't want to take that private aspect of it into my professional life. <BR/><BR/>Sometimes you just need to have a good cry or scream of frustration to your online friends. And I love that blathering, ranting aspect of blogging--especially whent it's the blathering of a swinging feminist ; )Kirstyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14035268080440921379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15851934.post-1144998202744780222006-04-14T17:03:00.000+10:002006-04-14T17:03:00.000+10:00Wait, you guys can differentiate between work and ...Wait, you guys can differentiate between work and play?<BR/>One of the problems of doing your phd on stuff you do everyday is a distinct failure to compartmentalise. I find that my academic style leaks out onto swing dance forums, my dance talk bleeds into my blog and so on and so on. Even more problematic is the fact that I think like a dancer when I'm working on the thesis, and I think like a phd kid when I'm dancing. <BR/>And you know that expression "you think too much"?* Well, when you're dancing, it's definitely not good to think too much.<BR/>... it reminds me of yoga and how we work on 'being here' - really being 'in our bodies' when we're working. Personally, I find that I'm so busy sweating and grunting I forget to fuss over non-yoga stuff. But it's an interesting idea - being 'in your body' and being really, truly 'here'. Actually <I>being</I> rather than theorising about whatever it is you're doing (or being). And I guess the interesting bit is not so much whether or not you're in your body or not or whatever, but the way different discourses describe and imagine how we should 'imagine' our participation in a particular activity (whether that activity's watching telly, grunting into downdog, dancing or getting a chapter done).<BR/><BR/>My absolute favourite thing is the way partner dancing is all about <I>communicating</I> through physical interaction (and communication being facilitated by being in your body) - communicating with your partner through touch and momentum and inertia and body awareness; yoga is all about communicating with yourself and being 'in your body'; and phding is about being 'in your head' but also communicating via articulation. Such interesting contrasts and contradictions.<BR/><BR/>...I figure you won't mind me blathering on like this in your comments rather than my own blog, skirt, do you?<BR/><BR/>*I still can't forget that one time, galaxy - you are my feminist academic hero forever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15851934.post-1144983981474337372006-04-14T13:06:00.000+10:002006-04-14T13:06:00.000+10:00I know what you mean about behaving properly for e...I know what you mean about behaving properly for each realm. I keep thinking I'd like to start a separate blog that's more related to my PhD program, and more political than my current self-indulgent whine-fest, but I don't think I'm actually that thoughtful, unfortunately.<BR/>I'm glad you're continuing to blog, anyway.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09150532491859766021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15851934.post-1144979142120447812006-04-14T11:45:00.000+10:002006-04-14T11:45:00.000+10:00This was cut out of the final draft:A new reader o...This was cut out of the final draft:<BR/><BR/>A new reader of Galaxy commented that she had found a link to this site from PhD Weblogs. Knowing this gave me pause, not least because I had not initiated the link, but also because, while I list my occupation as ‘PhD Candidate’, I’ve never conceived of this self-publishing endeavour as a PhD related project, not even since my candidature officially commenced. I know I write a lot about my existence as a postgraduate, but while I’ve told a few other PhD students and early career academics about my blog, they are also friends and, with the exception of Dogpossum and Tseen, both of whom are in a different city to me, not really regular visitors to the blogosphere or even my blog. I’ve had ‘real-world’ conversations about blogs with people who I know blog openly as postgraduate and early career academics, but I haven’t told them that I have a blog. My hesitation could be about self-consciousness, I suppose, but it’s also about the fact that I assume a different register in each realm; I behave differently, but, I would argue, appropriately in each setting. If I were to forge a conscious connection between my professional postgraduate self and my blogger persona, then I would most likely feel bound by the rules of professional academic conduct on the blogspot site. I would use proper names, my own and others, instead of the poor efforts at anonymity I currently attempt, and I would not have posted on the topic of bridal shower invitations or a scurrilous younger brother.Kirstyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14035268080440921379noreply@blogger.com