Business and pleasure collide

Searching for an online biography of an academic who is running a course for which I am preparing publicity material, I discover that she has written articles about feminist vampire fiction in general, and Buffy in particular. This makes me happy.

Miscellaneous pseudo-comments

Whenever I try to post a comment on someone's journal, Mozilla crashes. So, in the absence of ability to comment:

Voratus (who almost certainly doesn't read this): are you sure? I'd really, really, expect it to be the other way round. But I have a primary source I can question, so I'll see what he says.

Leathellin: as a non-albino person, I'm offended at the racism implicit in snowmen ;-)

Kesstrel: congrats!

Nevecat: snap (ish). Bus late. Freezing to death. Get to office an hour later than usual, file server down. For the third day in a row. Finally feel warm again after two hours in an office everyone else says is sweltering.

Everyone: yeah, yeah, we've got snow too. <pause> But it is rather exciting, isn't it? :-) Just wish ours would get on and settle. Except maybe I don't. How sensible is cycling in snow? I don't want to wish myself into another day of getting the bus ;-)

Other comments...

Chrestomancy: Useful advice, thanks. I'm doing one course a term for the next two terms, to ease back in, and because one of them is a pre-requisite for later stuff I want to do, although both are at too low a level to 'count' for anything.

Bateleur I: Thanks!

Bateleur II: OK, I know practically nothing about feminist theory, but it seems to me that a girl taking control of her life, and doing the traditional male hero kinda things, rather than moping around in her underwear waiting for a man to save her is reasonably feminist? OK, I haven't read the article yet, so I may be entirely wrong. Or she may have been writing about why Buffy and other vampire fic isn't feminist. The article is here, if anyone wants to go look and post a summary?

Must remember can't post comments. Growl.

Replying to Nevecat...

That and getting splashed with ice-cold salty slush is just yuck...
Well, I'm not going to cycle ;-) The cyclist in question has special kit for the purpose.

I'd recommend wrapping up warm and taking a book for the bus (oh, and a coffee, if possible)
I do both of those things, but I'm not sure I possess the appropriate clothes to be warm whilst standing still waiting for a bus in the current temperature. I'm aware that such clothes exist, I just don't have them. And there's a limit to how many layers I can fit under my coat <sigh>

alternatively, could you persuade them to let you work from home?
Entirely possible - I often do, depending on whether the work I'm doing is suitable for doing at home. Sadly this is currently not the case. I shall just have to hope that smiorgan feels more kindly disposed to cycling in snow than you do ;-)

Reply for Kauket

Cool! Let me know if Voratus is right! Hope for your sake he's not!

Replying to Onebyone

( Lengthy stuff about Buffy and feminism, from the basis of lots of knowledge about the former, and very little about the latter )