Boston sundries

[rm]

We're having a glorious time, which has included amazing amounts of great celiac-friendly food, a three-hour whale-watching tour that wound up being four hours due to some wacky weather, some burlesque, about which I have lengthy commentary at another date, and sitting on a kerb in Havard Square listening ot this random German family do strage things to pop songs with an electric violin.

In other news, I have annoying work stuff to deal with when we get home tomorrow night and I've been granted a RIDICULOUS amount of time for my Snape and gender presentation, and I feel really intimated by just how scholarly a setting I'm going to be in. OH, god, you guys!

Tomorrow: the Maparium!

If there's anything I need to see/read link it here (this now includes Torchwood fic and meta. I'm feeling much better).

Comments

[ckd]

Enjoy the Mapparium. It's incredible.

[gairid.livejournal.com]

I don't know you all that well, though what I know so far has me enamoured. Might you explain the reason you feel intimidated by the setting re: Snape & gender? You know, for those of us who have come aboard recently!

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm not an academic. I have a bachelor's degree in journalism. I'm just arbitrarily thinky about things and sort of am a fake academic, that is ridiculously good at forcing people to take my shit seriously. But this is now in a general-interest academic context, even while part of Dragon*Con (it's the academic track). It's a 20 minute paper, I've been empannelled with one other person wih a paper of the same length and now we have 80 minutes together -- that's a lot of Q&A and defending my thesis in an arena that isn't mine.

[gairid.livejournal.com]

But, wait. How is it NOT your arena? It's a subject you are clearly fluid in and you are distinctly able to state your position(s) clearly and succintly. I think you are more than able to hold your own. If I were a betting soul, I'd throw down a few denari on you.

This is, of course, coming from someone with no degrees in anything. I read, though. A lot.

[fleur.livejournal.com]

I must agree entirely with the first paragraph.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

When I gave a less developed version of the paper at a Harry Potter con, I had a situation wherein someone got into a vociferous debate with me that I was arguing that Snape is trans, which I was not arguing, as I was mostly not discussing his internal identity, but his perceptual identity as as described by others, both within the HP universe and from outside (i.e., by JKR). And it went on and on and on and included being told I was wrong about stuff I had documented (in terms of historical trends of women dressing as men to go to war and the differences in the documented cases between Europe and America) and then citing a book I had cited, but again with a bias that assumed something about the gender identity of a historical individual about whom we are not sure if they were transgendered, intersexed or cross-dressing. It was all really annoying, because they were smart and interested in the same stuff I was, but assigning an angle to my piece I wasn't prepared to argue for because I couldn't substantiate it, and it was scary! I'd never been academically challenged before (by people with real cred!) but I apparently acquited myself well and it has made the paper stronger.

[marcmagus]

Oh, good, you're going to the Maparium. I think you'll enjoy it.

[santousha.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're enjoying yourself.
I have no meta but I did try to write some Ianto/Alice fic that I hope you'll enjoy: The silent war

Your story was my main inspiration for writing it.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

You were like a block from my apartment today.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

My GF wrote a Meta I found interesting and will probably respond to later today or tomorrow.

http://mao4269.livejournal.com/230831.html

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Wrote my own reaction to the reaction I linked to above.

I'm just that narcissistic! :P

http://eumelia.livejournal.com/417205.html

[mellacita.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you are enjoying Boston. I loved living there. I'm looking forward to hearing more about your Snape and gender presentation as well. I've been out of HP for a long, long time, but when I was in it (circa GOF), I was all about Snape.

I can't be so presumptuous as to say you need to read it, but I did write that COE fix-it. It's here. Now that that's out of my system I can look to Jack's next lives a lot more easily!

[laura47.livejournal.com]

ah, Boston, my home! I send my love to my fair city, though we be so many miles apart now!

my friend runs a boston celiac webpage with restaurant listings here: http://www.bostonceliac.com/

(if you found other i know he'd love to hear about them!)

I know so many celiac people these days.... two diagnosed this spring alone!

I've been granted a RIDICULOUS amount of time for my Snape and gender presentation, and I feel really intimated by just how scholarly a setting I'm going to be in. OH, god, you guys!

I can come and act unscholarly if it helps. :)