Job

[bagheera_san]

Second day of my new job is done, and I'm loving it so far. The professor is a very nice guy, so are the rest of of his staff and my fellow student colleague. The job I'm doing like passing test tubes, only in English Lit. Which means making photocopies, looking for books in the library (today, both the photocopies and the books were graphic novels :D. Any job that consists of me looking through Sandman for Shakespeare references is a good one!), sorting stuff alphabetically, labelling stuff, and buying minor stuff (it's not quite easy to get floppy disks in 2008! One computer store guy made big eyes at me and mumbled, "I think we've got one in storage somewhere..." but I managed.)

Fall/Winter semester starts next week! I've written three of my four term papers. The fourth in the one I could write on Doctor Who, but I'm not quite sure I've got a proper topic/thesis statement yet. "There are many representations of the post-human in Doctor Who, some are positive and some are negative" doesn't quite cut it. And I completely failed to write any original fiction for Creative Writing.

Comments

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd like to emphasize that Who is an unusual show in so far as it has a main character who's human-like but challenges the boundaries of what is generally accepted as human (and whose main foes tend to be negative examples of the posthuman - Daleks, Cybermen, the Sontarans, other Time Lords). And if it's possible at all to find any patterns, I'd look at how the show's attitude towards what it means to be "human"/towards the posthuman elements has changed over the 40+ years of its run.

I did the fanfic-->original fic conversion before, but it always feels like cheating.