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curiouswombat) wrote2009-05-02 10:43 pm
curiouswombat) wrote2009-05-02 10:43 pm
Internet, Dissertation, Sodomy - the usual...
Our internet connection has been playing up - poor S2C has spent ages trying to get it working properly, and this is the first time for a couple of days that I have been online for more than 10-15 minutes. So far, so good...
I have been looking for a picture of me and my motorbike - I am sure that I saw a particular one only within the last couple of weeks, but now I can't find it - I have found a couple of others though, so I'll scan them in eventually!
D-d has started her Finals - in the British sense, not the American one, so much more scary! First one went well, and she is now wrapping up her dissertation.
Even now, she asks her Dad and I to beta read things like that, hence the following phone conversation.
The title of the dissertation is "Eighteenth Century Homosexuality: Molly Subcultures and the Societies for the Reformation of Manners". As you can see the subject is unusual, and open to humour...
S2C suggested a minor word change - because she had written It is apparent that men were aware of their own tendency towards sodomy and that they were not alone in this: and he pointed out that, as written, it meant all male humans, and so, if they were not alone in this, there must be others who were not men...
So - phone conversation involving all three of us -
"It could be women with strap-ons, or possibly porcupines..."
"Not hedgehogs though, because the hedgehog can't be buggered at all..." (Terry Pratchett ref. there!)
"Martians, perhaps... new slant on Mars attacks..."
"Well it makes me look at daleks in a whole different light..."
"You will be sodomised!"
"The Borg! The Borg! We put the ass in assimilate!"
The last, I hate to admit, was mine - and then I had to leave the room for fear of doing myself a nasty injury - from laughing too much, I hasten to add!!
PS - corrected version reads - "THESE men were aware..."
I have been looking for a picture of me and my motorbike - I am sure that I saw a particular one only within the last couple of weeks, but now I can't find it - I have found a couple of others though, so I'll scan them in eventually!
D-d has started her Finals - in the British sense, not the American one, so much more scary! First one went well, and she is now wrapping up her dissertation.
Even now, she asks her Dad and I to beta read things like that, hence the following phone conversation.
The title of the dissertation is "Eighteenth Century Homosexuality: Molly Subcultures and the Societies for the Reformation of Manners". As you can see the subject is unusual, and open to humour...
S2C suggested a minor word change - because she had written It is apparent that men were aware of their own tendency towards sodomy and that they were not alone in this: and he pointed out that, as written, it meant all male humans, and so, if they were not alone in this, there must be others who were not men...
So - phone conversation involving all three of us -
"It could be women with strap-ons, or possibly porcupines..."
"Not hedgehogs though, because the hedgehog can't be buggered at all..." (Terry Pratchett ref. there!)
"Martians, perhaps... new slant on Mars attacks..."
"Well it makes me look at daleks in a whole different light..."
"You will be sodomised!"
"The Borg! The Borg! We put the ass in assimilate!"
The last, I hate to admit, was mine - and then I had to leave the room for fear of doing myself a nasty injury - from laughing too much, I hasten to add!!
PS - corrected version reads - "THESE men were aware..."
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She has another two or three to go, and the deadline for the dissertation is Thursday, I think.
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Good luck to D-d!
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She is also taking her mind off them by looking for somewhere to live for next year, before all the good accommodation near the Law School is taken. When she isn't considering sodomy in the early eighteenth century, that is!
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Although I guess she could have simply not mentioned it at all, or lied about it - but then she would have known that I would have wanted to know why I couldn't read it.
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And I must admit that you're much cooler parents than mine own, as I don't think my mom is aware of eighteenth-century homosexuality, let alone Daleks and Terry Pratchett!
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They have a subset within the History Department at York who specialise in what they lovingly know as 'Queer History' so finding a supervisor would not have been hard.
We are the generation that hid behind the couch from the daleks first time round, and got into Terry Pratchett when the Colour of Magic first came out in paperback...
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On second thought, I she knows vaguely about Dr. Who when it first came to the US, as some of her boyfriends dabbled in Anglophilia, and she and I have watched a few episodes of the 9th and 10th Doctor together on BBC America.
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We Americans are uptight and rarely discuss ANYTHING openly. The look of horror on my parents faces when they finally saw the beginning (they refused to sit through the entirety) of Clockwork Orange after I had said it was a thought provoking film and they should see it. The response was, "You LIKED that?" I felt quite cheap and tawdry.
Kathleen
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Actually she was quite happy to explain to my mother what her dissertation was about, too. Although Granny would have been a bit fazed by the Borg, and probably the person who mentioned the strap-ons would not have done so in front of her!
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I'm thinking the Borg are more like hedgehogs...
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You could be right about the Borg...
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Granted the most "interesting" topic I remember writing about when I was in college was TB...
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I have a family with a weird sense of humour - conversations can swing from a deep discussion of historical accuracy to the ridiculous in a few seconds!
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One of D-d's friends is at Edinburgh, and she is now at the difficult point of deciding on a topic and title for her dissertation, too - the two of them were discussing it when both home over Easter.
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Good luck to your daughter.
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My daughter's just finished her dissertation on 'The Misrepresentation of Science in the Media' but there's not nearly as much room for humour!
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Almost totally off topic - but I often look at this pic of my daughter and want to give her ears little points!
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*dies laughing*
You are such a cool family! Best of luck to your daughter -- I'm sure she'll succeed with flying colors!
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I have to say that I rather like the young woman that she has become, though.