• Helped a bunch of Queens Public librarians read some zines
• Got my issue of On Wisconsin in the mail, and got a little nostalgic. Interview with Lorrie Moore.
• Still working on the Teddie Roosevelt and manliness essay for homework this week. Didn't get much reading done on the 3 hour commute to Flatbush--a bit to tired in the AM to read about imperialism and conquest.
  

Jenna and I will be presenting "Zines 101" tomorrow at the Queens Public Library. I'm excited to spend some time looking at works with our librarian audience as an attempt to define them (an illustration of my DIY Zine Definition). For slides you can see Jenna's post.

• Today I re-read, and then did some free writing. Kind of. I was trying to write up a homework assignment, and the writing came a bit less calculated and organized than I would have liked. I'm going to sleep on it and try again tomorrow.

• Sometimes when it's real. slow. at. the. desk. it seems like the day didn't even happen at all. And I couldn't find where that woman's class was! Or satisfy the CPE student! Long Sunday.
• Read some more On Writing Well, but couldn't make it through kind of watching the Oscars.
  I liked this paragraph on revising well enough a few days ago that I folded over a tiny corner on page 87:

• I got a really looming and somewhat gluttonous stack of books checked out for me through CLICS today (really-I have over forty books now checked out, and ten more requests...)
• The beginning of Theodore Roosevelt: Manhood, Nation and "Cilivilization," for this week's gender theme in class.
  

• More biking and celebrating than reading today.

• Re-read all the homework essays, looking for the threads of resistance that I thought united all of them, and found out I am the only one to have thought out my final paper (overachiever strikes again?).

• On Writing Well
• More of Counterpoise
• Call numbers for books for MALS class; American print culture and the construction of publics...
  

• Fall/Winter 2009 Counterpoise; amazing letter by Sandy, and a nice piece by Dr. John Van Hook.
• A bit of On Writing Well by Zinsser (one thing that I found this semester is that reading about writing is invigorating for me in terms of wanting to write and be engaged with scholarly activities).
  

• Constance Penley, "Brownian Motion: Women, Tactics and Technology"--highly recommended article about women and Star Trek slash fanzines
• Robin D.G. Kelley, "'We Are Not What We Seem': The Politics and Pleasures of Community"
• Kelley, "The Riddle of the Zoot Suit"--also really great; talks about Malcolm X's writing about his time as a zoot suiter and how his later perspectives clouded his recollection of the cultural significance of his hipsterism.
  

• Teaching myself about the American Revolution and tracts. Not finding exactly what I want, and not sure if that means I have to make it...

• The Pscychology of Moving
• Inside a Divided Upper East Side Public School
  

• Lizabeth Cohen, "Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in the 1920's"
• George Lipsitz, "Listening to Learn and Learning to Listen: Popular Culture, Cultural Theory and American Studies"
  

• Raymond Williams, Base and Superstructure in Marxist Theory
• Zitkala-Sa, School Days of an Indian Girl
• Finished Trachtenberg; recommended--his vision of American culture is a bit bleak, but true to life (largely powered by capitalism, for worse rather than better).
  

• Trachtenberg; 4 chapters by tomorrow!
• Grant proposal, talk proposal, paper proposal