On Living with a Cinema/Media Studies Student
My roommate is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Cinema/Media Studies Department. She’s also very interested in gender issues, and is currently working on a project about intersex people. She’s interviewed several intersex people (commonly known as hermaphrodites; I think “intersex” is the preferred term or the self-designation). Now, she and a colleague are putting together a short stop-motion film. I’m not entirely sure how the interviews and research will fit into this film. All I know is that there is now a hot pink clay penis in my refrigerator.
[Note: My digital camera isn't working, so the best we could do was get a still from the movie of Roommate's friend making the penis. If I can figure out how to fix my camera, I will snap a picture of the penis inside the fridge.]
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current book: Nearly done with Goodbye, Columbus. Apparently this was Roth’s attempt at a novel while a grad student at the U of C. Sort of makes my master’s thesis look a bit paler…
current music: Can’t stop listening to Margot and the Nuclear So-and-So’s. Also, no matter what I do, I cannot get ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s “White and Nerdy” out of my head. That song is a serious earworm.
current socks: Smartwools with polypropylene liners underneath them and lined boots above them. And still my toes are cold. I have never been cold like this before. Not when I lived in Indianapolis, not when I lived in Massachusetts. I am seriously considering moving to the desert. Give me 100+ temperatures any day.
Posted 6 February 2007
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“Time to make the penises.” All I can think of when I see this is that scene from Hedwig and the Angry Inch when Hedwig’s mother is gradeing sculpture made by communist children in East Berlin.
Sorry, I meant “grading.” I always feel so guilty when I make language errors on your blog, Laura. It’s so literary.
So you won’t eat meat, but you’ll allow a hot pink penis in your fridge???