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Dear Google,

How much do I love you? Not only, in my time of need, are you providing me somewhere to type up my most pressing eljay post, but you delivered me this, Judith Butler, just as I returned from the last of my On Reading lectures. You are near-prophetic. Thank you.

Now, if you'd just let me download my photos from my duck cheer account, that would be brilliant,

Lots of love, as ever,
M (kisses!)

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No, but seriously, when I try to download attachments from gmail, my system goes on the fritz and then my server needs resetting because the net refuses to load eljay. I'm leaving it for now because I'm dong other stuff but all I can say is thank fuck for ljgate.

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(Possibly Controversial) Statement of the Day: The Postmodern is not a temporal event, but a geographical one. The East has yet to meet it.

My lecture has nothing to do with this in the grosser sense, but it was about hypertexts and the woman kept throwing the term Postmodern around and I kept thinking, well, hey, a good portion of people I know don't believe in DNA. Sure, our sense of selves may be more and more attuned to technology (we're Cyborgs - I love Harway's critical piece), but you can't talk about that as a Postmodern occurrence if you want to suggest that post modernity is a global occurrence. It isn't - it's a social, economical, theoretical, arguably Western term.

My grandmother thinks that asking for family medical history is part of a medical conspiracy. I tried once to explain the concept of DNA but when she has no concept of genes, cells or microscopes, it gets difficult.

I'm a person who owns a mobile phone that is nearly never on (ask my family). I don't have an iPod, or a MP3 player, or a Walkman or a disc man, though I do have a laptop. But my connection to the internet, oh boy. That's what makes me as much of a Cyborg as anyone I know.

OK, I need to stop talking about this because I just CALLED MYSELF A CYBORG and no-one knows what the fuck I'm on about.

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Oh boy: Hairspray. !!!

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Dear CSI fans,

Regarding the last episode to air in the US: don't be stupid. It was bait; don't get caught. Think about the type of person he is. Admittedly, it was a nice throwback to a comment that Keppler made (one that I hoped would be played with) but, please. DON'T BE IDIOTS. For one thing, it makes no sense. For another, the guy is just completely - it'll be an empathy/sympathy thing.

M.

I have new NCIS to watch and nearly all of last week's fandom. This is very exciting.

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There was other stuff but it can't have been so important because I don't remember. Actually t was about translating and interpreting, but it basically ended with the phrase: "and that, ladies and gents, is why FedEx is the right-hand of God." Yeah, really.

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it's a social, economical, theoretical, arguably Western term.

Yes, thank you!