Have I updated my blog with anything of substance lately? Why no, no I haven't. So, I guess you can think of this as the general State of the Alexis post, to cover the various things that have happened/have failed to happened/will be happening soon in my life.
Anyway, on 17 February I had my JET interview at the Japanese consul in Seattle. It went pretty well, I think, though a couple of things kind of threw me and my one Japanese language moment wasn't exactly flawless. I had an answer to every question, though, and I think those answers were decent. I was consistent, at least, and I smiled a lot and tried to make it clear that I'm really very flexible - while there are obviously some things I would prefer to others, anything is awesome. I find out sometime in early to mid-April whether or not I've got a job and then, if I am a short list candidate, I'll wait until sometime between the beginning of May and the end of June (as far as I can tell) to find out my placement. It all varies by consul, so there are no specific dates for when candidates get new information. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
I'm also thesis-ing, which is interesting, but also somewhat maddening. My thesis is about Eve in "Paradise Lost." I'm arguing that she has greater power and agency than Adam and that Adam is actually the follower at the critical point in the text (the Fall of Man). I'm also partially refuting the claim that Milton was a hardcore misogynist. There is some definite misogyny in that poem, that's undeniable, but the traditional reading of Milton as a misogynist writer is partly based in some historical misconceptions and not completely accurate. And I'm going about the whole thing from a New Historicist perspective. So I'm doing a lot of reading about women in early modern England.
Other than that... Powwow is this weekend, so I'll be really busy helping run that. But it's my last Willamette powwow and it's my favourite school-related event of the year, so the exhaustion is totally worth it.
And, since I have to go to work in about 10 minutes, I think I'll just update the book list and leave it at that. This wasn't the greatest blog post ever, but it's proof of my continued existence. Or something like that.
Books of 2010, as of 9 March:
1. The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Apocalypse - D.H. Lawrence
5. Love in the Ruins - Walker Percy
6. The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
9. Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
10. "Paradise Lost" - John Milton
11. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
General Life Update
Posted by A.N. Latshaw at 1:08 PM
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Good to see you are still alive. This week is the week of us always seeing each other, and both of us trying not to die. YAY POWWOW! That will be fun! :)
Ganbatte!
This is fascinating.
I’d been taught that left-aligned labels are preferred, to support the prototypical F-shaped eye-tracking heat map of web browsing. The idea is that it supports easy vertical scanning.
But this study revealed this to be incorrect!
study abrodad
I'm not exactly a fan of Milton (he bores me to death), but I feel like when people label something as misogynist, it often serves to derail the discussion-- like, people don't wanna hear anything else about him and he couldn't have possibly been legit because he was down on women, in a time when the word misogyny had no popular meaning. (The obvious parallel today would be rap music.) And then when you wanna speak up about it people act like you're an apologist.
Just something I've noticed. Looking forward to reading your thesis.
I hope you get accepted!
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