tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39535382011-04-21T22:30:12.723-05:00cyborg womanThis blog is a loose representation of my interests: feminist theory, rhetoric, grassroots activism, women in academia, blogs, intellectual property, and much much more. It's personal/academic, and you'll sometimes find responses to texts I'm reading for classes. The name comes from the cyborg theory of<br><b><a href="http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~RF6T-TYFK/haraway.html">Donna Haraway</a></b>.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comBlogger1101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-947071972003-05-21T17:30:00.000-05:002003-07-03T12:31:45.836-05:00This weblog has moved, at long last!! Please update your bookmarks and/or blogroll; the new URL is http://www.culturecat.net. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-944738282003-05-16T17:42:00.000-05:002003-05-21T18:20:50.000-05:00What Natural Disaster are you? Take the quiz!Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-941099122003-05-10T11:46:00.000-05:002003-05-10T11:46:55.653-05:00Aaaah, Charlie was right. I changed my template and now all my posts are back!Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-935330292003-04-30T09:42:00.000-05:002003-05-07T11:45:15.000-05:007 May 2003 again: Okay, now not only do I hate Blogger and blog*spot, I also hate easyDNS. I took Paul's advice and went with GKG, where I bought culturecat.com and culturecat.net. I think that the main one I'll give to people will be culturecat.net, and culturecat.com will be a mirror site. culturecat.org will be parked at easyDNS. Whatever. Sorry for yet another change, but the URL is now...Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-934201722003-04-28T15:37:00.000-05:002003-04-28T15:37:50.146-05:00Is Blogger only going to let me show one post at a time now? And I thought my troubles with them were over...Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-934195672003-04-28T15:25:00.000-05:002003-04-28T15:25:38.150-05:00Spotlight blog that I can't believe I haven't blogrolled until now: funferal. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-932728762003-04-25T20:34:00.000-05:002003-04-25T20:35:19.000-05:00I'm so stressed. :-( I'm afraid I might collapse. Not really, but I am pretty loaded with work right now. Right after the semester's over, I'll have to hop in my car and take off to go to Computers & Writing and present a paper I haven't written yet. I have to write my three big seminar papers first! Aaaaaaaaa! Then it's on to Florence, AL for two weeks, then back here to the Twin Cities to focusClancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-927187322003-04-16T10:07:00.000-05:002003-04-16T10:07:37.153-05:00I've become a lazy, sporadic blogger, but it's that time of the semester, so I don't feel too bad about it. Last night in my Gender and Science and Technology class, we watched a film called Born in the U.S.A.. For some time, I had been dismayed about birthing conditions for women, and from reading the work written by and recommended by Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff, I developed an enthusiasm about Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-918506352003-04-02T10:22:00.000-06:002003-04-02T10:25:12.000-06:00Sigh...if you don't want to read a depressing post today, you might want to close this window now. A few things have happened in the last couple of days that lead me to this post. First of all, I've been watching reruns of "The Cosby Show" in the mid-morning. I can't watch a rerun of the Cosby show without thinking about Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby's son, who was murdered while he was changing a tireClancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-917616232003-04-01T00:32:00.000-06:002003-04-01T00:32:54.200-06:00Definitions of Material Rhetoric—Metaphorical and Literal Presence The essays in Rhetorical Bodies provide a point of entry into the discourse about material rhetoric. The collection is particularly helpful for one who had no prior exposure to material rhetoric; that is why I am using this reflective reading paper to process my understanding of definitions of material rhetoric. Using the essays Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-917226622003-03-31T12:37:00.000-06:002003-03-31T12:37:41.826-06:00Here's a reflective reading essay I wrote for a class I'm taking: In the course of my reading of Feminism and the Body and Out of the Dead House, my reflections have centered on one question: Why is it important for feminists to study the body? I went into the texts with this question and some doubt; I had heard a lot of scholars use the phrase “critical practices of embodiment” or a variant of Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-915507132003-03-28T09:39:00.000-06:002003-03-28T09:39:03.216-06:00The Feminist To-Do List, by Gloria Steinem. I'm happy to note that "End Smoking" is on the list, but I kind of wish that there were more women-specific items on the list, like, I don't know, get women out of the iron maiden (as Naomi Wolf says in The Beauty Myth) and away from abusive boyfriends/husbands. Right now it reads like any lefty social movement. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-914408782003-03-26T17:08:00.000-06:002003-03-26T17:08:05.560-06:00I have a paper to write that is due Friday for my Gender in Science and Technology class. It's no big deal, just a response paper on the reading we've been doing lately for the class...4-5 pages double-spaced, nothing I can't handle. The books include Feminism and the Body, which is a collection of essays edited by Londa Schiebinger, and Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-914350742003-03-26T15:26:00.000-06:002003-03-26T17:00:00.000-06:00I'm officially excited: this story about blogging appeared in the Minnesota Daily today. Thanks to Patricia Drey for writing a great story!Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-912433452003-03-23T16:48:00.000-06:002003-03-23T16:48:12.530-06:00Barbie has a new friend, "Nolee," who is apparently "the smart one," but not bookish or anything unglamorous like that. Barbie says, "She knows so many random facts. It's not like she's a bookworm, just really smart. And she says she's building her own website! Should be up and running soon. Can’t wait to check it out." That wouldn't be because a new doll is coming out, now would it?Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-912428262003-03-23T16:36:00.000-06:002003-03-23T16:36:11.090-06:00One more thing. Being in NYC made me think about this. George W. Bush has basically said that we have to attack Iraq because their leader, Saddam Hussein, is endangering the health and safety of its citizens. Ironic, isn't it?Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-912427302003-03-23T16:33:00.000-06:002003-03-23T16:50:31.000-06:00Yawn. I'm so wiped out! I got back from New York City late last night, where I presented a paper at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Today I've been so exhausted that no amount of caffeine has helped. Tomorrow, another week starts, and I had no break at all. Getting plenty of sleep last night didn't help, so I'll have to try again tonight. At least my feet are feeling Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-908849012003-03-17T17:44:00.000-06:002003-03-17T17:46:52.000-06:00Things New PhDs Should Start Doing, by Idris H. Hsi. I have GOT to get EndNote. Got this site from António Granado.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-908846022003-03-17T17:38:00.000-06:002003-03-17T17:38:33.700-06:00So I have decided to stay with Blogger for now. If you look at my archives page, you'll see that I've put the links to my archive pages in manually, gah. If I don't have any other problems, I'll just keep my blog where it is. I did pay the $15.00 for no ads, after all. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-908659542003-03-17T11:57:00.000-06:002003-03-17T11:57:34.840-06:00Mmmm, I have had the best morning! Since I broke my roommate's carafe that came with her coffee maker (I swear, you just tap that thing ever-so-gently against the side of the sink while washing it, and it breaks!!), plus I have no milk or half-n-half anyway, I decided to walk to the Dunn Brothers coffeeshop, which is five blocks away, and treat myself to some GOOD coffee. I got a 20-ounce New Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-908095622003-03-16T11:29:00.000-06:002003-03-16T11:29:47.950-06:00I haven't posted in quite some time, but I'm trying to get something going with Movable Type or Greymatter. I'm hoping to get it going soon. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-904155332003-03-09T14:50:00.000-06:002003-03-11T16:53:05.000-06:00Test post to see if my archives come back. Blogger, this is your last chance. Edited to add: Never mind, it's not even worth all the time I've spent trying to recover the archives. I hate Blogger with a passion. I'll be posting a link to my new blog in a few weeks; please update your bookmarks. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-900646002003-03-03T13:32:00.000-06:002003-03-03T13:35:06.000-06:00There's a guy who drives the buses that go between the Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses who looks just like Don Dokken. I mean exactly like him. I wonder if he IS Don Dokken. Maybe he's a relative. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-900072132003-03-02T12:52:00.000-06:002003-03-05T00:58:26.000-06:00Check it OUT!!!! Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity and the soon-to-be-released The Anarchist in the Library: How Peer-to-Peer Networks Are Transforming Politics, Culture, and the Control of Information, now has a blog. I'm excited about all this resistance to copyright law combined with blogging. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-899289392003-02-28T18:06:00.000-06:002003-03-05T00:58:55.000-06:00Hey, Tim, these are the other ones I know of so far: KairosnewsJon Lech JohansenForeword: The Book Design Blog TechnoratiI knew about Doc too, but not about Greg. Thanks for pointing me toward that one! :-)Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-897242182003-02-25T12:25:00.000-06:002003-03-05T00:59:13.000-06:00Scary stuff...I have a ~500-word paper proposal due tomorrow for my RIPPI class. Thanks to Charlie Lowe, I have a general topic--blogs and Creative Commons licenses. I haven't decided exactly what my research question is going to be yet, though. Here are possibilities: Why are bloggers getting Creative Commons licenses? How exactly is this helping the Web to remain/become a commons for free Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-896488842003-02-24T10:08:00.000-06:002003-03-05T00:59:48.000-06:00Grad Student Jokes. I love them, but they're so pathetic...oh well. Got this one from Antonio at PhDweblogs.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-896048662003-02-23T11:32:00.000-06:002003-02-23T11:41:11.000-06:00Okay, I need some help here. I have to write a paper for my intellectual property class, and I want to do it on IP with respect to blogging practices...but I can't think of a good hook or link between the two. Can anyone point me in a direction, recommend a good article or book to read that would help me, something? Random sites I've looked at today: Business and IP Voxygen: a breath of fresh Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-895548462003-02-22T10:34:00.000-06:002003-02-22T10:35:59.000-06:00Note to self, for when my Intellectual Property class reads Digital Copyright by Jessica Litman: Dave Munger is reading it and noting his impressions of it (February 5, 6, and 19th's entries are devoted to the book). Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-895163822003-02-21T14:52:00.000-06:002003-02-21T17:47:13.000-06:00Every day brings me closer and closer to my own domain and Greymatter or Movable Type...Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-895129002003-02-21T13:36:00.000-06:002003-02-21T13:48:44.000-06:00Hey, Scott! Thanks for the compliment. :-)Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-894053082003-02-19T20:37:00.000-06:002003-03-11T16:55:25.000-06:00I want my links to appear in bold, like this link to a story from Ms. News about a new welfare reform bill: The bill, which passed 230-192 largely along party lines, would increase work requirements for mothers on welfare from 30 to 40 hours a week with strict limits on the amount of time spent in classes or job training – and only a small increase in child care spending, from $4.8 billion to Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-892474232003-02-17T11:03:00.000-06:002003-02-17T11:03:51.380-06:00I'm hissing at Blogger right now. Weeks of my archives are not visible on my archives page. I can access them in my "edit your blog" site, but readers can't get to them. I tried republishing, but to no avail. Maybe I should host my blog on my UMN space and use Greymatter or something. [frown] On a positive note, last night my friend Amy had some of us over to learn how to knit! At first I wasn'tClancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-890439812003-02-13T12:21:00.000-06:002003-02-13T12:21:32.490-06:00I love it when I find another rhetoric person who blogs! Samantha Blackmon, Assistant Professor at Purdue University, has this excellent blog. I'm going to blogroll it and start reading it regularly. She also has links to class community blogs.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-890118142003-02-12T21:42:00.000-06:002003-02-12T21:42:32.400-06:00Test your feminist IQ. I'm happy to say I got a perfect score, but then again, the test wasn't that hard. :-)Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-889586062003-02-12T00:09:00.000-06:002003-02-12T00:11:16.000-06:00The Berkeley Intellectual Property Weblog: I think I'm going to both blogroll this one and monitor it for my Rhetoric, Intellectual Property, Piracy, and the Internet (RIPPI) class. Woo-hoo! I'll monitor it in addition to Larry Lessig's blog; he hasn't posted anything in a couple of weeks, so this way I'm covered for current material!Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-889122492003-02-11T08:33:00.000-06:002003-03-11T16:55:04.000-06:00The two songs I'm sickest of right now: "Air Force Ones" by Nelly. "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" by Jay-Z.Hip-hop stations, please play something else!!! Oh, and while I'm at it, that song "In My Place" by Coldplay is such a rip-off of "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead!!! Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-888952892003-02-10T23:18:00.000-06:002003-03-11T16:31:51.000-06:00The spreading of this story all over the internet is in full swing, but what the heck, I'll blog it anyway: the Dell dude got arrested for buying marijuana. Quelle surprise.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-887639472003-02-08T12:40:00.000-06:002003-02-08T12:40:41.843-06:00Legwarmers are back! That being said, last night I watched The Banger Sisters. It was excellent--just a wonderful feel-good movie. I'm not ashamed to say that I love those. The acting was fantastic and the writing was so women-centered. Cool.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-886128652003-02-05T16:28:00.000-06:002003-02-05T16:28:20.863-06:00Hey, readers, sorry for all the fluff on my blog lately. I'm going to deliver some substantial goods soon, but right now I'm busy with grading response papers and reading about qualitative and quantitative methods for studies of communication and writing. I've been using my blog as an escape . . . guess it beats TV, huh? Speaking of media and culture in general, I bought some CDs recently: Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-884929882003-02-03T15:50:00.000-06:002003-02-03T15:50:45.330-06:00yourDictionary.com's word of the day today is blog! How cool is that?!Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-884795562003-02-03T11:05:00.000-06:002003-03-09T17:16:28.000-06:00 I am the sonnet, never quickly thrilled;Not prone to overstated gushing praiseNor yet to seething rants and anger, filledWith overstretched opinions to rephrase;But on the other hand, not fond of fools,And thus, not fond of people, on the whole;And holding to the sound and useful rules,Not those that seek unjustified control.I'm balanced, measured, sensible (at least,I think I am, and usually Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-884296182003-02-02T12:24:00.000-06:002003-02-02T12:32:30.000-06:00Got this today from a friend. It's so true. Read this and you've gotten a taste of my upbringing. Some people really say "I swanee." My dad used to say it if he got irritated while driving. By the way, I've heard it said about bloggers that blogging is a way to "send" your friends stuff like this without framming (spam from friends) their inboxes. It's best, though, to find the original source ofClancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-884261392003-02-02T10:51:00.000-06:002003-02-02T10:51:09.936-06:00You're Love! Which Moulin Rouge Symbol are you most like? brought to you by Quizilla Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-884027972003-02-01T20:37:00.000-06:002003-02-01T20:37:29.813-06:00Thanks, Laurie! That worked, but the first post's font is bigger than the rest of the posts.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-883950062003-02-01T16:49:00.000-06:002003-02-01T16:49:05.830-06:00Aaargh, sorry my fonts are screwy-looking. I don't know what to do! I've been editing the template a lot, searching for every appearance of the word "font," and making sure sans-serif is the designated font family, yet things are still looking inconsistent, at least on this machine. :-(Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-883944252003-02-01T16:33:00.000-06:002003-02-01T16:33:53.486-06:00 You are red. You are impure, but noble. You are precious and true to yourself and others. When you love, you love entirely, and will do anything to make your love happy. You are sure of your identity, therefore, you cannot change others or be changed. You are a true prince, you may be forgotten, but without you, none of us could go on. What inner color are you? Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-881762282003-01-28T15:28:00.000-06:002003-01-28T15:28:29.073-06:00For your reading pleasure, heh, here's a copy of my brief bio for my Rhetoric, Intellectual Property, Piracy, and the Internet class. I'm Clancy, a first-year Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota. I'm in the Rhetoric department, and my minor is Feminist Studies. When I was working on my M.A. at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, I considered my area of interest to be academia's roleClancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-881186962003-01-27T16:05:00.000-06:002003-02-19T10:17:22.000-06:00Gah! I have been saying to myself all weekend that I'm going to blog about the reading I did for my Gender in Science & Technology class. These posts will hopefully help me with the reflective reading papers we have to do in there. I read four articles, all in a collection about material rhetoric called Rhetorical Bodies edited by Jack Selzer and Sharon Crowley, and I just want to post some briefClancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-881168732003-01-27T15:29:00.000-06:002003-01-27T15:29:05.466-06:00Heh, so you might have noticed that I'm playing around with my blog colors again. This time, I'm going for the ugly 70s couch look.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-878718222003-01-22T19:20:00.000-06:002003-01-22T19:20:13.770-06:00Sigh--I have yet another cold. Maybe I'll get an immunity built up after this one. It's 7:15 and I feel like I could sleep all night long. In fact, I think I might get in my bed, now that I've got it all set up with my electric blanket, and curl up with Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry, a collection edited by Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln. I have to read chapter 3 for tomorrow . . . Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-877639652003-01-20T21:50:00.000-06:002003-03-11T16:55:39.000-06:00I've just been introduced to Lawrence Lessig and his Creative Commons movement. So far, I've found his writing to be exceptionally clear and his points eloquently argued. Here's a superb blog post from him. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-876546182003-01-18T16:55:00.000-06:002003-03-11T15:45:05.000-06:00My friend Neal Walsh recently published his short story"Mouthing the Words" in the Absinthe Literary Review. On thecomments page, "Miles Hitchcock from Australia wrote on January 8. 2003: -- got to say this is one of the better / best lit publications on the web. Mouthing the Words got me - chilling/amusing tale of ordinary madness - the sweet shadows of modern ennui and liberty..." I admit I Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-873679352003-01-13T14:10:00.000-06:002003-01-13T14:10:32.000-06:00Hey, check out this blog! Right up my alley. :-)Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-873201192003-01-12T15:57:00.000-06:002003-01-12T16:02:04.000-06:00Okay, I'm about to confess something really, really un-hip: I have been known to, especially while driving down the highway by myself, blast, sing along to, and even tear up during the song "I'll Be" by Edwin McCain. I suppose some of you will write me off your list of friends now. :-) I ended my last post with the sentence, "I'll be the most helpful, inspiring teacher ever." Then I posted about Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-873199192003-01-12T15:52:00.000-06:002003-01-12T15:52:56.000-06:00So, the winter break is almost over, and what do I have to show for it? Nothing, unless you count a few holiday pounds. Nothing personal against my family or anything, but three weeks is waaaaaaaaaay too long to be in my hometown. Between Christmas and New Year's Eve, my friends and I would go out to restaurants like Ricatoni's and see all kinds of people from high school who were also in town Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-871837432003-01-09T15:38:00.000-06:002003-01-09T15:38:54.820-06:00Buyer's remorse, also known as e-tail therapy: I just spent some money I probably should have saved on some fabulous stuff! Oh well, gotta start off the semester right. I got a little jewelry from Naughty Secretary Club, bath stuff from Lush, a couple of Demeter Fragrances (Green Tomato and Wet Garden), and a little something from Amazon [wink]. E-commerce is awesome.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-871831602003-01-09T15:25:00.000-06:002003-03-05T09:22:02.000-06:00Today's random stuff, in no particular order: (Oh, sheesh, I just realized that this is kind of like Larry King's "bits," as made fun of by Norm MacDonald on Saturday Night Live. But what the hey, I'm going for it. When I was in Knoxville recently, my good friend Susan Giesemann North turned me on to the writing of Molly Ivins. I would read Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? before going to Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-871389462003-01-08T18:49:00.000-06:002003-01-08T18:49:37.310-06:00I feel so awful for neglecting my blog(s) all this time! I've had to come to the public library to get on the Internet, though, so it hasn't been as convenient. Today I've been catching up on email and other online stuff, and the library closes at 7:00, so they're about to kick me out. Tomorrow I'm going to come here again and post in more detail about what I've been doing over the break. PrepareClancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-866334362002-12-28T14:09:00.000-06:002003-03-12T00:07:13.000-06:00Sigh--I think my head cold has turned into a chest cold. I have a little cough, ugh. So today is my good friend Andrea's 29th birthday. Every year we go to see a movie on her birthday, and it's usualy a romantic comedy. Last year it was Kate and Leopold. The year before that it was What Women Want. This year it will most likely either be Maid in Manhattan or Two Weeks Notice. Oooh, and I had someClancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-865975892002-12-27T13:40:00.000-06:002003-03-12T00:07:34.000-06:00Posting today from the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library. I'm sick as a dog . . . so stuffed up and sore-throated. :-( I have so much to do for school, ugh. I just want to lie down in my bed (the one in my *apartment*, not at my parents' house where it's extremely smoky because of my dad--I feel like I'm breathing in cancer and just general decay and disease every time I inhale when I'm there) Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-864115052002-12-22T17:50:00.000-06:002003-03-12T00:07:58.000-06:00Well, just look what I found! Good review, Laurie. [Grin] Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-864095122002-12-22T16:42:00.000-06:002003-03-12T00:08:07.000-06:00Early tomorrow morning, I'm flying home! Unfortunately, I don't have regular Internet access there, so this might be my last blog entry of 2002 (but I hope not!). Happy holidays, readers. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-863638952002-12-21T10:44:00.000-06:002002-12-21T10:44:42.290-06:00Here's a link to a post by Halley that might help me in my gender conflict in the blogging community study. If you look at it, look at the post directly under it too--wow. So eloquent, really, great writing about motherhood.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-863335222002-12-20T14:51:00.000-06:002002-12-20T14:56:03.000-06:00You absolutely have to look at this menu. It will be so nice to go home! I want a pecan waffle, country ham, AND a bacon, egg & cheese sandwich--and lots of coffee too. I'm also going to go to another one of my favorite restaurants, the Hollywood Inn soul food restaurant, and then when I go to Knoxville, I'm going to eat at Spooky's, Stir Fry Cafe, Copper Cellar, and probably a bunch of other Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-862778802002-12-19T11:32:00.000-06:002002-12-19T11:32:56.076-06:00Tan, tomato, and sea green--I'm going to try these on for a while and see if they fit.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-862773332002-12-19T11:19:00.000-06:002002-12-19T11:19:42.903-06:00Oh, and you might surf in here when I'm experimenting with colors, so sorry if your aesthetic sensibilities are offended.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-862770092002-12-19T11:12:00.000-06:002002-12-19T11:12:09.583-06:00Aaaaah, it feels good to be finished with the first semester of a Ph.D. program. Now I want to give my blog a makeover; I'm a little tired of the purple and orange. On the one hand, I want to go all out girly-Hello-Kitty-style, but then I think it might be interesting to have earth tones, maybe some green. We'll see what I come up with. If you think it's sort of, well, ugly, give me suggestions Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-862311442002-12-18T13:14:00.000-06:002003-03-11T16:55:59.000-06:00Oooooh! Maybe I can finish this paper after all . . . I'll think of it as a lover . . . yeah, that's the ticket! Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-862159002002-12-18T06:46:00.000-06:002002-12-18T06:46:54.930-06:00In 13 hours and 45 minutes, I will hand in this paper. Hopefully it will be an okay one. I'm not sure yet if I will post this one, though; not feeling so confident right now. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-861945282002-12-17T19:23:00.000-06:002003-03-11T15:47:17.000-06:00You are 37% geekYou are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator. Normal: TellClancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-861428912002-12-16T20:21:00.000-06:002002-12-16T20:21:15.263-06:00Woo-hoo! One down, one to go! Got a 15-20 single spaced pager due Wednesday, ugh. I'm going to post the one I finished soon; it's in Word right now. If only I had Adobe Acrobat, then I'd post it as a pdf. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-860351372002-12-15T11:38:00.000-06:002002-12-15T11:38:53.276-06:00Still in a serious dark funk place . . . taking a break from writing to post. Stay tuned; I'm going to post the product of all this misery tomorrow night.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-859935382002-12-14T10:09:00.000-06:002002-12-14T10:09:59.350-06:00The Impostor Syndrome, or Another Pity Party Still feeling quite down about school, feeling like my ideas are trash. At times like this I have outlandish thoughts, like . . . what would I do if I weren't in this program? If I left after this semester? Would my professors and the field of rhetoric in general heave a collective sigh of relief? I've been trying to think about what it is I'm good at Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-859685842002-12-13T17:51:00.000-06:002003-03-11T15:45:43.000-06:00I will be so glad when this semester is over! Right now I'm down . . . feeling like none of the work I do will ever be nearly good enough for my professors. Does everyone have these moments? Does anyone have these moments as often as I do? I feel like I try so hard, but other people have subtler, sharper minds than mine, and I'll never measure up. I feel like the omega brain of the Rhetoric Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-858772132002-12-11T22:47:00.000-06:002002-12-11T22:47:24.610-06:00Okay, so here is a presentation I did tonight for my Technical Communication as Cultural Practice class (which is the skeleton for my seminar paper). I don't know PowerPoint, so I did this little Web-based presentation. If you look at the screens, you'll get the jist of it, I hope, but since you didn't hear my talk, not all the context is there. Feedback is appreciated. I still have a good bit Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-858252122002-12-11T00:12:00.000-06:002002-12-11T00:12:47.096-06:00Here I am, amazed to have made it through another day. Tomorrow--technically today--is going to be a bear. I have to do a presentation for my Technical Communication as Cultural Practice class. I have this grandiose idea in mind: I've never done a PowerPoint presentation, but I've created quite a few Web sites in my day. So I'm going to create a site that has parts of my paper in Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-857715492002-12-10T01:24:00.000-06:002003-03-11T15:46:22.000-06:00It's 1:20 a.m. . . . should I have some Ben & Jerry's? Will it help my terrible anxiety? Unisom is not doing anything for my sleeplessness lately. I've taken to watching "Blind Date" and "The 5th Wheel" on late nights like this. Maybe I should embrace the insomnia. Just now I was convinced that I had lost 8 of my students' annotated bibliographies. It's okay, I thought, worst case scenario I'll Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-857535742002-12-09T18:21:00.000-06:002002-12-09T18:21:29.836-06:00Oh yeah, and Christmas shopping? Not going to happen. Christmas cards? Also not going to happen, in case you were wondering.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-857534922002-12-09T18:19:00.000-06:002002-12-09T18:19:39.320-06:00Sigh. I feel like I'm about to go in front of a firing squad. I don't know why firing squad, exactly, and not, say, lion's den or pit of venomous snakes, but there it is. Papers to grade, papers to write. $59.55 in the bank. I'm strategically mailing out my bills at the last possible second before they're due so that my checks won't bounce. I'm pretty sure we're getting paid again on Thursday or Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-857101712002-12-08T22:25:00.000-06:002002-12-08T22:25:28.423-06:00Hey fellow Ph.D. students, look at this. It's phdweblogs.net, "a non-profit initiative to bring together PhD students' weblogs from all around the world." I wonder if you can stay registered with the site after you get your Ph.D.? There are only 13 blogs registered right now; readers, you should get in on it! I registered and, after filling out their form, got a page that said my blog is subjectClancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-857054672002-12-08T20:42:00.000-06:002002-12-08T20:42:11.250-06:00Blogging from the library again, heh. Tonight I came here to find a couple of books I need for my Research Methods final project proposal. I found one, The Lenses of Gender by Sandra Bem, but must go to Magrath Library for the other two books I need. Of course I looked around the shelves and found two other cool-seeming books, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud by Laqueur and Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-856865632002-12-08T12:34:00.000-06:002002-12-08T12:34:39.690-06:00Elizabeth Lane Lawley and some others are putting together a proposal for a grant from NSF about blogging! I really want to be in on this. It's an international collaboration, and these scholars are looking at blogging from several different perspectives. More on this later. Blog resource: I just want this link to be here so I can get to it; this is kind of like a blog bookmark. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-856583092002-12-07T18:37:00.000-06:002002-12-07T18:37:12.136-06:00Aaargh, I haven't gotten much at all done today. I had a terrible migraine and took one Aleve, nothing happened, and a few hours later took three Tylenol. My head still doesn't feel okay, but I'm not in a great deal of pain. So, I'm thinking about my paper for the Technical Communication as Cultural Practice class. I wanted to write about blogs and their place in the scholarly publishing world, Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-856086012002-12-06T14:54:00.000-06:002002-12-06T14:54:55.960-06:00Oh, sheesh. Barbie has a blog now. As do her friends Madison and Chelsea. This new Barbie thing is called "My Scene," and it involves Barbie hanging out with her "ethnic" friends in New York City--in cafes, trendy shops, taxicabs, etc. Thanks to Christine at Ms. Musings for this little nugget. Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-856060312002-12-06T13:52:00.000-06:002002-12-06T13:52:25.973-06:00Under "Ratliff": "You enjoy being stroked verbally and physically." Boy, they do claim to know a lot about me! Ha.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-856059442002-12-06T13:50:00.000-06:002002-12-06T13:50:42.613-06:00Oooh, oooh! I did this Acrophonology thing--sort of like a horoscope for your name. Here is mine:Clancy: You are a quick study, and can be self-taught. Your curiosity can get the best of you, but you must learn to concentrate. You have a diplomatic flair to your nature. Equality and fairness are important to you. You have much enthusiasm with a driving attitude toward achievement in life. You Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-855997472002-12-06T11:23:00.000-06:002002-12-06T11:23:25.033-06:00Two things down (presentation and observation); too many to go. Research and grading are going to consume my weekend. Today I'm going to the post office to mail my plane tickets back to Orbitz. I need to change my flight reservation. I was going home the 15th, but I need another week at least. I need more time before the semester starts too. Haven't broken the news to my parents yet . . . :-/Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-854651772002-12-03T22:47:00.000-06:002002-12-03T22:47:06.190-06:00Wah! I did my presentation today, and don't get me wrong, I'm glad it's over and done with and all, but I'm afraid it didn't go that well, only mediocre. Hmmmm . . . brooding. Maybe I should get that iMood thing that Laurie has! Today I am feeling . . . brood-y. Sigh. And then I'm getting observed on Thursday. [anxiety] I hope that goes okay.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-853813832002-12-02T10:11:00.000-06:002002-12-02T10:11:39.273-06:00Things I absolutely must do today: Finish research proposal for presentation tomorrow! In order to do this, I have to finish the reading that is going to serve as my methodology--my theoretical framework. I also have to write out my refinement of my research question(s) and method. I need to do a bunch of stuff for my students, too, like answer questions about their research papers and prepare Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-853196302002-11-30T23:23:00.000-06:002003-03-12T00:12:49.000-06:00This is my blogchalk: United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Dinkytown, English, French, Clancy, Female, 26-30, feminism, rhetoric. :) Thanks to Laurie of Memex for the link to BlogChalking.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-853042802002-11-30T14:53:00.000-06:002003-03-12T00:14:31.000-06:00 Oooh, oooh! I want the new CD by The Roots. They played on Conan O'Brien last night and sounded awesome. I like that Missy Elliot song "Work It" too. I have such all-over-the-place taste in music, but genres I tend to like consistently are jazz, blues, and hip-hop. Indie snobs drive me nuts, and bands like Silver Jews and Blonde Redhead make me so miserable I want to injure myself just so that Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-853036902002-11-30T14:32:00.000-06:002002-11-30T14:32:50.710-06:00Posting today from the library . . . I'm trying to haul around about 20 books for research on 3 papers. I wish I could run into one or a few of my students right now, so that they can see how easy they really have it! grin. I hope I can get those interlibrary loan books in time for the paper. WHY do I not anticipate situations like this?! I should have been ordering interlibrary loan materials 3 Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-852825292002-11-29T23:13:00.000-06:002002-11-29T23:13:53.646-06:00So, the University of Minnesota is having AIDS awareness week. I think that's great and all, but when I looked at what exactly that entails, I was disappointed that no one's coming to the Student Centers to conduct HIV testing. Where I went to undergrad, the University of North Alabama, community outreach workers from the AIDS Action Coalition would come to the student center every semester and Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-851915802002-11-27T20:54:00.000-06:002003-03-11T16:46:08.000-06:00So I just ordered eight books on blogs from interlibrary loan. They have nothing on it in this library! I hope I get them in time . . . to ask for an incomplete is just unacceptable.Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-851288282002-11-26T16:04:00.000-06:002003-03-11T16:45:10.000-06:00Yesterday in my Technical Communication as Cultural Practice class, we had to present our paper topics. Unfortunately, I still at the time had five ideas for papers, which I presented, and the professor decided on the one that would work best. Here are my ideas; hopefully, I'll be able to write all these papers during my time here: The one that won the contest was a look at the assumptions that Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-850403792002-11-24T23:38:00.000-06:002003-03-11T16:43:58.000-06:00I was just looking through my bookmarks, and this book excerpt of Pornography as a Cause of Rape was there. Well, actually, Dr. Diana Russell's home page was there. I decided to click it, and it's an extremely lengthy excerpt; I'm impressed that she is publishing so much of her book for free online. Helen Longino, a professor here at the University of Minnesota, is quoted in the excerpt. I'm Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-849819322002-11-23T15:37:00.000-06:002002-11-23T15:37:17.740-06:00Oh, and I promised Laurie of Memex (see blogroll) a post about stuff I want. The big thing I can think of right now is a juicer. A juicer with a several-horsepower motor, one that you could throw carrots, green peppers, and celery in. I'd be so much healthier. I want that Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition Laurie referred to in her post, too, but like her, I can't afford it. I want the (Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-849817182002-11-23T15:29:00.000-06:002002-11-23T15:29:49.550-06:00Here is a site about academic women that I found and like. The author discusses, among other things, what kind of image the words "academic woman" conjure. This other site, the cyborg generator, is pretty good too but is suffering from a slight case of link rot. Finally, I love the University of Minnesota and all, have wanted to come here for 2 years now, but I'm so jealous of people who get to Clancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953538.post-849722902002-11-23T10:33:00.000-06:002002-11-23T10:33:36.366-06:00Okay, so I decided to try this Googlism thing: Googlism for: clancy clancy is for imho _ clancy is a bargain clancy is a leader 09/27/01 clancy is president and ceo of the community builders clancy is quiet clancy is not one of us clancy is for imho _ clancy is a new media artist clancy is an accomplished computer writer clancy is the heartwarming clancy is a tough clancy is similarly ruggedlyClancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05602972068940219155noreply@blogger.com