Now that my latest stint as degree-factory slave is over (for 2005 at least), I’m slowly finding my passion again…and most definitely feeling the full effects of the new media fatigue that has been haunting me all year – is this a problem for someone doing a PhD called Vernacular Creativity and New Media? I don’t think so, because it means I’m historicising more and better, and engaging with the cultural theory and cultural practices parts much more, in relation to a much more nuanced and catholic theory of technology, thank the gods for all of that. It may, however, be a problem for someone who is supposed to turn in a book chapter called ‘Blogging and Critical Literacies: Using Blogs as Formative Assessment’ in a matter of weeks. Ahem. [waves cheerfully to Axel].

So, I kinda wish I was going to be at the Writing Across Cultures conference with Ben, but am happy to be spending some time (without the pressure of giving a paper) at the Sites of Cosmopolitanism conference (cosmo for short, yo).

Also, I really really need a haircut, looking a little too David Cassidy at the moment. Self-flattering though the comparison may be.