Inspiration
Posted on | April 19, 2006 |
So the wordpress update went well, if that can be quantified solely in terms of solving my major headache of hundreds of spammers descending on my innocent thoughts [edit: after writing all this I now realise my links aren't working properly and my 'write post' box is a bit demented. I will struggle on and hope you can bear with]. But now I’m at a loss as to what to do for the banner and theme. I think it’s time for a change. Any ideas, or better, volunteers for giving me a swanky new look? I changed the theme for a while but I couldn’t work out how to add things to the sidebar. Everything seems a bit harder now for some reason. I thought I could make up code by being a detective but clearly I can’t, so I’m not sure how long until I look interesting again. Hopefully you love me for my mind and not my appearance, heh…
In other news, I’m enjoying having Lisa McLaughlin around at the CCCS. She’s giving me lots of pointers for my next project, and her talk tomorrow sounds great. Only problem is I’m still working on the Hoggart paper, which is kinda overdue. Today I realised that I’d written whole pages of text ‘for the published version’ that I had completely forgotten about/abandoned because of the craziness attending my departure. I get seriously worried when that happens: when I realise I’ve already written something I’m trying to write. Just one step closer to my Alzheimer’s paranoia coming true. It’s kind of good in that I don’t have to write something new, but also makes it hard to determine whether I should go with what I said, or what I would have said if there had been more time (and a cultural studies audience) and I hadn’t written a 20 minute presentation. Oh dear. The perils of genre. And I’m just so sleepy since I got back from the UK. I can’t tell if it is existential or physical. But something I haven’t mentioned is that my life has been hit by another big change, which will mean I am living alone again soon, so maybe it’s some psychosomatic thing. Yep. When in doubt, Freud.
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April 19th, 2006 @ 7:00 pm
Ooh, I hate that writerly deja-vu feeling, especially when it turns out not to be an illusion at all. I was looking through my many PhD notebooks the other day, and found the same bloody thing written SO many different ways that it was kind of half affirming, half depressing. I have insomnia, so just enjoy the sleepiness.
April 20th, 2006 @ 7:11 am
now, i seem to recall many moons ago promising to do you a new theme. hmmm. pity wordpress theme design is a pain in the posterior — witness how many kubrick-themed sites there are on the web. hmmm.. i’ll be in touch.
April 20th, 2006 @ 9:28 am
wow nick, if even you find it painful i don’t feel quite so silly. look forward to hearing from you!!
April 20th, 2006 @ 11:29 am
Say hi to Lisa from me - enjoyed her contributions at the incom conference in Amsterdam last year!